Missour-ee or Missour-uh? Discuss all things Missouri. http://www.democraticunderground.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Thu, 23 May 2013 03:54:23 Thu, 23 May 2013 03:54:23 The St. Louis Fire of 1849 was a devastating fire that occurred on May 17, 1849 and destroyed a significant part of St. Louis, Missouri and many of the steamboats using the Mississippi River and Missouri River. This was the first fire in United States history in which it is known that a firefighter ... http://www.democraticunderground.com/1061768 Fri, 17 May 2013 04:21:22 The Missouri General Assembly ends on Friday. So far, the legislature has approved some consequential bills -- and left others unattended. As we count down to the end of the session on Friday, [b]this list will be updated to reflect legislation that’s passed -- or passed on.[/b]

Click on the subj... http://www.democraticunderground.com/1061767 Thu, 16 May 2013 05:38:18 Republic Services Inc. will place a plastic cap on its Bridgeton landfill by early September to control foul odors and extinguish an underground fire, Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster announced Tuesday.
Capping the landfill is part of an agreement between Koster and Republic filed Monday in S... http://www.democraticunderground.com/1061766 Wed, 15 May 2013 05:42:42 When business groups hire dozens of lobbyists to push an issue in the state Capitol, you can ignore the lofty rhetoric and focus on the money and power.

So it is with the fight over Missouri’s liquor laws.

Much of the nation’s wine and liquor industry, led by the Distilled Spirits Council of t... http://www.democraticunderground.com/1061764 Sun, 12 May 2013 14:14:39 out there!

Thanks For All You Do!

:thumbsup: :clap: :applause: :bounce: :hi: ... http://www.democraticunderground.com/1061763 Sun, 12 May 2013 03:24:47 Millions of consumers have an error on their credit report. In response, Democratic Senator Claire McCaskill of Missouri held a hearing Tuesday on the consumer report industry.

One out of every five consumers has an error on at least one of their major credit reports, according to a study release... http://www.democraticunderground.com/1061760 Wed, 08 May 2013 18:55:29 [i]Yet another attack on working people by the GOP Controlled Missouri General Assembly.[/i]

http://www.news.stlpublicradio.org/post/mo-gen-assembly-sends-targeted-prevailing-wage-bill-gov-nixon

The Missouri General Assembly has sent Governor Jay Nixon (D) legislation that would provide a targ... http://www.democraticunderground.com/1061756 Wed, 08 May 2013 06:21:43 http://cf.drafthouse.com/_uploads/galleries/30450/body_of_war_poster_jpg-magnum__small.jpg

An evening celebrating the life of Tomas Young featuring Tom Morello and Phil Donahue has been announced for May 19th at the Alamo Drafthouse Mainstreet in Kansas City, Missouri (Young’s hometown). The eve... http://www.democraticunderground.com/1061755 Wed, 01 May 2013 21:34:07 In 1904, St. Louis hosted a World's Fair to celebrate the centennial of the 1803 Louisiana Purchase. It was delayed from a planned opening in 1903 to 1904, to allow for full-scale participation by more states and foreign countries. The Fair opened April 30, 1904, and closed December 1, 1904. Of nota... http://www.democraticunderground.com/1061753 Tue, 30 Apr 2013 04:17:38 Jefferson City – Continuing the assault on workers in the Missouri General Assembly, the House Workforce Development and Workplace Safety Committee on April 10 referred Senate Bill 29 (SB29), a reckless paycheck deception measure, to the House Rules Committee. From there, it is a short procedural st... http://www.democraticunderground.com/1061751 Wed, 24 Apr 2013 08:22:51 (KMOV) – A distraught mother came to News 4 after her 20-year-old daughter was fired after missing work for training duties with the Missouri National Guard.

Morgan Johnson was sworn in to the Missouri National Guard on April 18 and told her boss at the Crystal City Subway she would miss work to ... http://www.democraticunderground.com/1061750 Wed, 24 Apr 2013 06:35:28 Jefferson City – Last week a House committee combined three right-to-work (for less) bills (HBs 77, 91 and 95) and passed it out of the House Workforce Development and Workplace Safety Committee. The measure includes a referendum clause, which would put the right-to-work (for less) question before v... http://www.democraticunderground.com/1061746 Thu, 18 Apr 2013 04:50:11 http://blogs.riverfronttimes.com/dailyrft/2013/04/brian_nieves_insane_emails.php

The second page of the article has the full exchange. The first page has links to articles showing Brian Nieves may have a clinical excuse for writing "insane" anything. Funny shit at link:


[i]We have to im... http://www.democraticunderground.com/1061744 Wed, 17 Apr 2013 15:04:49 Urban Chestnut Brewing Company (UCBC) has announced plans to significantly expand its brewing operations in the City of St. Louis.

UCBC announced on Monday its plans to build a new brewery in “the Grove” Neighborhood located off of Manchester Blvd. The brewery will occupy the former Renard Paper ... http://www.democraticunderground.com/1061743 Wed, 17 Apr 2013 03:14:00 Two outlet malls under construction in Chesterfield valley are nothing new for that neighborhood.

People have been shopping there for years. Thousands of years, in fact.

"Not many folks realize there have been people living and buying things and creating things in Chesterfield for 11,500 years... http://www.democraticunderground.com/1061741 Fri, 12 Apr 2013 05:17:54 UPDATED at 8 a.m. Thursday: Ameren reports that about 21,000 utility customers in Missouri and 2,800 in Illinois remain without power this morning. Nearly half of the outages in Missouri are in the Florissant and Hazelwood areas.

HAZELWOOD • Dozens of rescue workers swept into Hazelwood late Wedn... http://www.democraticunderground.com/1061738 Thu, 11 Apr 2013 09:30:54 The Black Hawk War was a brief conflict fought in 1832 between the United States and Native Americans headed by Black Hawk, a Sauk leader. The war erupted soon after Black Hawk and a group of Sauks, Meskwakis, and Kickapoos known as the "British Band" crossed the Mississippi River into the U.S. stat... http://www.democraticunderground.com/1061737 Mon, 08 Apr 2013 04:18:51 Growth may be slowing, but the Missouri’s revenue stream continues to flow heavier than expected.

The latest numbers released today by state Budget Director Linda Luebbering, show that Missouri’s general-revenue collections for the current fiscal year are running at a pace that’s up 8.3 percent o... http://www.democraticunderground.com/1061736 Thu, 04 Apr 2013 04:11:39 A sales tax increase to improve parks, trails and the Gateway Arch grounds easily passed on Tuesday, propelled by a slow, steady line of voters at St. Louis County precincts and an overwhelming win in St. Louis.

The measure, Proposition P, had to win in both to go into effect.

Proponents calle... http://www.democraticunderground.com/1061735 Wed, 03 Apr 2013 05:40:03 The Pony Express was a mail service delivering messages and mail from St. Joseph, Missouri across the Great Plains, over the Rocky Mountains and the Sierra Nevada to Sacramento, California by horseback, using a series of relay stations. During its 18 months of operation, it reduced the time for mess... http://www.democraticunderground.com/1061734 Wed, 03 Apr 2013 05:08:14 hope that those will elections going on today, have or will make it to the polls. :patriot: ... http://www.democraticunderground.com/1061731 Tue, 02 Apr 2013 17:13:23 Former Missouri Congressman Todd Akin roughly doubled his office payroll after losing a campaign for U.S. Senate.

Salary figures available through the online tracking site Legistorm.com show Akin paid his 14-person staff nearly $400,000 in the final quarter of 2012. That's twice as much as the $2... http://www.democraticunderground.com/1061727 Mon, 01 Apr 2013 19:34:46 USS Missouri (BB-63) ("Mighty Mo" or "Big Mo") is a United States Navy Iowa-class battleship and was the third ship of the U.S. Navy to be named in honor of the US state of Missouri. Missouri was the last battleship built by the United States and was the site of the surrender of the Empire of Japan ... http://www.democraticunderground.com/1061719 Sun, 31 Mar 2013 04:19:00 Our Rachel Lippmann had a story about corn cob pipes on NPR's Morning Edition today - yes, corn cob pipes of the Mark Twain, Frosty the Snowman, Popeye, General MacArthur variety. It turns out, these pipes have a big Missouri connection.

As NPR says:

The Missouri Meerschaum factory in Washingt... http://www.democraticunderground.com/1061718 Fri, 29 Mar 2013 10:55:28 County Clerk Mark Hedrick is hoping voters will prove him wrong on his turnout prediction for the election Tuesday. He's predicting a 10 percent turnout, which compared to municipal elections in other years, is actually on the high side. Previous April turnout has been 7 to 9 percent, but a couple ... http://www.democraticunderground.com/1061717 Fri, 29 Mar 2013 09:21:28 Missouri House Speaker Tim Jones, R-Eureka, is trying to step up the pressure on state Attorney General Chris Koster, when it comes to protecting a state law -- now in limbo -- that allows employers to avoid providing insurance coverage for certain procedures.

Jones announced Thursday that the st... http://www.democraticunderground.com/1061716 Fri, 29 Mar 2013 06:38:34 Washington University plans to spend $30 million on sustainability efforts over the next five years, a push that comes as the institution gears up to host a big meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative.

The university announced on Wednesday afternoon that it plans to spend $30 million over the ne... http://www.democraticunderground.com/1061713 Thu, 28 Mar 2013 14:03:13 KANSAS CITY, Mo. • Joplin will receive $113 million in fresh federal assistance to help the recovery from the devastating May 2011 tornado, federal officials announced Wednesday.

The money, which is coming from the Department of Housing and Urban Development's community development block grants,... http://www.democraticunderground.com/1061711 Thu, 28 Mar 2013 06:39:11 ST. LOUIS -- Work on the long-stalled Ballpark Village is finally heating up, but a history professor says it’s the site of a historic battle and hopes it’s not too late for the owner to bring historians to the site.

Ground-clearing work is under way in preparation for the area of shops and resta... http://www.democraticunderground.com/1061710 Wed, 27 Mar 2013 06:31:36 (KMOV.com) -- New information could come out Wednesday from Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster concerning the Bridgeton landfill. Koster will hold a press conference to make an announcement about the stench that has lingered for months.

The Department of Natural Resources recently ran test of... http://www.democraticunderground.com/1061709 Wed, 27 Mar 2013 06:29:09 CASSVILLE, Mo.—A southwest Missouri high school says four girls’ basketball players from a rival school poured urine into the opposing team’s water cooler during a February game.

Monett High’s principal told parents in a letter last week that the four Cassville High players each urinated into a c... http://www.democraticunderground.com/1061703 Tue, 26 Mar 2013 09:05:53 BRENTWOOD, Mo. (KMOV) -- News 4 has learned Brentwood Police are looking for several suspects going around stealing women’s credit cards right out of their purses.

It’s happened several times at the St. Louis Bread Company in Brentwood. Detective Sgt. Jim McIntyre says, "it appears these suspects... http://www.democraticunderground.com/1061702 Tue, 26 Mar 2013 04:06:57 KTVI) – The Overland Police Department is promoting gun safety. They’re giving away free gun locks.

Overland police officers will be handing them out during the “Overland Business Association Expo.” They will also be giving away disaster preparedness information.

The expo will take place at ... http://www.democraticunderground.com/1061701 Thu, 21 Mar 2013 10:33:13 PILOT KNOB – You couldn’t blame someone for thinking they were imagining things as the sound of cannon fire reverberated across the Arcadia Valley on March 2 — but what people heard was very real.

For the third year in a row, members of a well-respected Civil War reenacting group, the Turner Brig... http://www.democraticunderground.com/1061699 Sat, 16 Mar 2013 16:09:16 Two photos that grace the yearbook for the 1970 graduating class of University City High School show competing groups.

One depicts members of student government, while the other features a group of students who want to overthrow student government.

Mary Beth Tinker is in the second photo.

M... http://www.democraticunderground.com/1061698 Sat, 16 Mar 2013 07:18:25 For those of you wondering who could possibly be blamed for the moribund economy all of us in Missouri and the nation suffered through in recent years, worry not.

[b]The Missouri Senate has found the culprit. It’s public employees.[/b]

It’s those absurdly high-paid teachers, nurses, janitors, ... http://www.democraticunderground.com/1061697 Wed, 13 Mar 2013 13:57:31 WELLSTON, MO. (KTVI) – The mother of a Normandy High School student saw people exchanging guns in the school parking lot Tuesday afternoon, according to the Wellston Police Department.

Four people, who were inside two vehicles, were arrested and police said they found two guns in the vehicles.

... http://www.democraticunderground.com/1061696 Wed, 13 Mar 2013 10:11:59 Sad day for Mo with the passage of SB29 paycheck deception. First step by Koch Brothers and ALEC to make MO a RTW state.... http://www.democraticunderground.com/1061692 Tue, 12 Mar 2013 06:56:51 LINCOLN COUNTY • Drivers on Highway 79 along the Mississippi River bottoms might mistake the multitude of geese for leftover snow.

But if they look closely, the white stuff is moving like a wave.

Snow geese are congregating in the St. Louis area in record numbers, driven southeast ... http://www.democraticunderground.com/1061689 Sat, 09 Mar 2013 05:21:03 ST. LOUIS • The state appeals court here heard arguments Wednesday in several cases that will help determine how red-light cameras are operated across Missouri — if they are allowed at all.

The Eastern District Missouri Court of Appeals has previously held that municipalities can use the cameras ... http://www.democraticunderground.com/1061688 Thu, 07 Mar 2013 05:51:40