It's a new era of bipartisanship, right? Of reaching across the proverbial aisle that divides Republicans and Democrats, across this nation that is no longer made up of red states and blue states but united states? Our new president has told us it's time to put away childish things and get to work.Despite all modern technology, though, that message has yet to fully reach Missourians' elected representatives in Jefferson City. The bipartisanship cliches are in full ring there, but it looks like t
The relationship between cyclists and the Missouri Department of Transportation is marked with plenty of pot holes and dead ends. If you ask MoDOT, cyclists don't demand or use the roads enough to warrant the dollars they demand. If you ask bike advocates, they might complain that the state agency might as well be called the "Department of Single-Occupant Automobile Transportation" for all the attention they pay to alternative forms of transit.
The most notable divide over the past several
