Surprise, Surprise, Surprise as Gomer Pyle used to say…just days after the belated issuance of the January 2018 Monthly Management Report from the Missouri Department of Social Services the February report got spit-out about when it should have appeared. (Of Read More …
Category: State and Local Issues
FOCUS 2018: Republican-Sponsored Voter Suppression in Missouri Exposed
At a well-attended meeting of the West County Democrats’ FOCUS 2018 — the evening version of WCD — Nancy Price and Denise Lieberman, explained the intricacies of the Missouri Legislature’s most recent attempt to suppress voters and limit the constitutionally Read More …
Sliding, Slowly Sliding…Missouri Benefit Report For January 2018 Issued
Quick facts from the Missouri Department of Social Services Monthly Management Report for January 2018 [ https://dss.mo.gov/re/pdf/fsd_mhdmr/1801-family-support-mohealthnet-report.pdf ] … ◊ For the first time since the George W. Bush administration, Missouri issued less than$90 million in food stamps in January Read More …
Keep On Truckin’
Jesus died on the cross so that a trucker going 61 miles per hour could pass a trucker going 60 mph on an interstate highway with a 70 mph speed limit. I learned this yesterday long following a semi-truck northbound Read More …
FOCUS 2018: New Missouri Voter Photo ID Law and Your Rights Within It
Missouri’s discriminatory photo voter id law will stifle voter participation in 2018. Come learn about it to help your family, friends, faith organizations and social/community groups understand it. Please pass the word! West County Democrats 2018: New Missouri Voter Photo Read More …
Must Work For Food
The badge said “Trainee,” explaining tentative pokes at the touchscreen and the eagerness to give me change for a $20 instead of my $5. (Don’t worry: I pointed out the error.) Friday’s Kansas City Star editorial notes that “The GOP Read More …