Subject: Missouri

• REO Speedwagon Makes Something Come Alive

  July 16, 2007

• Big Muddy Adventure

  September 18, 2007

• Daily Briefs: Eliminating Affirmative Action, Another Smoking Ban, the Kids Are All Right. I Guess.

  February 5, 2008

• Coal Plant Postponed

  March 3, 2008

• San Diego Minutemen on Missouri Streets?

  May 2, 2008

• He's Our Guy

  May 28, 2008

• Claire, There Are Bears in Missouri

  May 29, 2008

• RIP, KCMO Trash Scavengers

  August 4, 2008

• Koster Cliffhanger Concludes

  August 14, 2008

• Voting is hard! And about to get harder!

  October 29, 2008

• Missouri and Kansas are among "Dirty Dozen" for mercury pollution

  Ameren's Labadie power plant By CAROLYN SZCZEPANSKI Environmentalists in Missouri celebrated earlier this month when a ballot initiative requiring investor-owned utilities to produce more renewable power faced no organized opposition and passed with a resounding 66 percent of the vote. Last year, the administration of Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius denied the permit for a massive new coal-fired power plant, even though the political fallout virtually paralyzed the 2008 legislative session.

  November 20, 2008

• Stealing Time: Kansas City death pool 2008

  Kansas City Crime starts the 2008 Kansas City dead pool. "Sorry no prize, just the lingering feeling that you live in one of the most violent places on earth," writes Old Fat Cowboy. "Just the unsettling feeling that you or one of your loved ones may be the next victim of a stray bullet while riding a bus, a stabbing while buying some groceries or a beating while waiting walking in a park." Comforting. So far, no one has taken a guess. And just a tip: Dead pools don't go over so well in this cit

  December 3, 2008

• Letters

  July 20, 2000

• Letters

  September 21, 2000

• Missouri Matters: Missouri politics' Facebook

  Forget Facebook and MySpace, Missouri political junkies. Scooter Jackson, the man behind the not-at-all-Republican Missouri Political News Service, has started a social networking site for Missouri politicos called Missouri Matters. So far, 163 people have signed up. Hey, who wouldn't want to be friends with Matt Blunt's former chief-of-staff Ed Martin (pictured)? Except for maybe, Scott Eckersley. But at least that whole e-mail lawsuit is finally settled.

  January 6, 2009

• The Loan Arranger

  January 17, 2002

• Pledge Class

  July 25, 2002

• Tax Smacks

  September 19, 2002

• Best Free Monthly Magazine

  October 17, 2002

• MSNBC interviews Claire "Tough as Nails" McCaskill

  Look at our girl, making Missouri proud while calling Wall Street bigwigs "idiots." According to Gawker Media site Jezebel, Missouri's senator looked like she wanted to "cut a bitch" while introducing a bill on the Senate floor proposing salary caps for employees whose companies are receiving federal bailout money. We want to join her for a glass of congratulatory champagne -- er, make it Pabst. Watch the clip here.

  January 30, 2009

• Dean's List

  August 7, 2003

• Best hoopster

  October 9, 2003

• Bullet Proof

  November 13, 2003

• Uh oh. Is beer tax next?

  Flickr: Rex RoofJust a year ago Oregon was the coolest state in the union. Home of beaches, dunes, Portland, lenient pot laws and legal euthanasia it is a smelly hippy free thinker's paradise. But now Oregon is acting like a buzz-kill goober dad and threatening to raise the tax on its nearly 100 breweries by 1900 percent. In fairness to state legislators who are trying to pass the law, Oregon has one of the lowest beer taxes in the country. Currently Oregon charges the same tax on beer as

  February 18, 2009

• Suite Charities

  June 3, 2004

• Queer Abatement

  August 12, 2004

• Missouri lawmakers moonlight as Obama-isn't-a-citizen conspiracy theorists

  Robert CooperFor a long time, I didn't believe that Missouri's state Legislature could be crazier than Kansas'. This year, thanks to Missouri state reps Cynthia "kisses" Davis and Bryan "Rebel Yell" Stevenson, I know I'm wrong. And it keeps getting better. Missouri House Republicans want a constitutional amendment to stop voter fraud and protect Missourians from "corruption, fraud and tyranny." If you're like me, you see the words "corruption, fraud and tyranny" and you say, "No, sir. I don't li

  March 4, 2009

• Corps Vet Simmer

  May 5, 2005

• Entry Level

  May 25, 2006

• An Open Letter to Art

  February 8, 2007

• Letters From the Week of August 21

  August 21, 2008

• Operation: Operation

  Criminals with a liking for cereal and Muppets just may have inspired titles for police actions.

  July 31, 2008

• Instrumental Artistry

  December 27, 2007

• Bourne in Missouri

  Pass Springfield, look for the “Home of Jason Bourne” sign, and you’re in Nixa.

  August 16, 2007

• Kit and Caboodle

  Letters from the week of

  January 5, 2006

• Art Capsule Reviews

  Our critics recommend these shows.

  October 20, 2005

• The Big Coverup

  Unless the courts say otherwise, this is the week the naked breast in Missouri goes bye-bye.

  August 25, 2005

• Homo Homage

  It's a whole weekend of queer cinema.

  August 19, 2004

• Kansas City Strip

  Okay, you can change that billboard now.

  February 22, 2001

• Heck of a Trek

  Prairie chickens do it in the grass.

  August 24, 2000

• It's probably best to avoid much contact with Missouri's feral hog population right now

  Day four of "Panico 09!" is upon us, and everybody is treating anything having to do with hogs or pigs as un-kosher. So this is as good a time as any to offer good lifetime advice: Avoid Missouri's feral hogs!Yes, Missouri has a small but stout population of wild pigs, just roaming around and waiting to infect city folk with their terrible swine flu. OK, that's not true. Every single case of swine flu in America came from other human beings, not pigs, and there is a very good chance that none of

  April 28, 2009

• This week's "Best of Fat City"

  We're thinking these were the top stories posted on Fat City this week:   Absinthe doesn't necessarily make the heart grow fonder The best food holder of all The best chocolate chip cookie? Chefs salaries revealed A taste of Kansas and Missouri      

  May 8, 2009

• The end of the world will be tweeted

  As popular as Twitter is, for the most part its users share information they may as well have shouted into an empty cave for all the interest it is to anyone. But you might want to follow FEMARegion7 -- that's the FEMA office that watches over Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, and Nebraska. Region 7 recently started tweeting. The offices first few tweets have to do with things like helping Missouri officials assess storm damage and Iowa's flood recovery efforts, but when things get more serious y

  June 16, 2009

• Missouri and Kansas keep eating

  The non-profit health policy organization Trust For America's Health released its annual F as in Fat survey yesterday. The results are not especially encouraging for Kansas or Missouri. While neither are among the 10 fattest states, they are perilously close. Missouri ranks as the 13th fattest, with just over 28 percent of adults qualifying as obese. Kansas increased its adult obesity rate this year to 27.2 percent, tying Alaska for 18th place. Mississippi is the number 1 state, at 32.5 percent.

  July 2, 2009

• Goings-on this weekend

  If you don't subscribe to our dining newsletter Pitch Forks, then you are missing out. It is all that and a bag of chips. Below are just some of this weekend's activities (actually, just Saturday's) that Pitch Forks would have helped you plan for.Tomorrow is the German Somerfest at Turners Banquet Center in Belton (512 Bong, 816-322-4202), an event that promises German food, German beverages and polka bands. Somerfest is 1-11 p.m. and tickets are $10 per adult and $5 per child.Closer to the city

  July 17, 2009

• Inmates not as rich as we all thought

  www.consumerwarningnetwork.com ​AOL's Daily Finance has an interesting story about a crappy national trend. Supposedly it's now cheaper to stay in a motel than it is to kick back in jail. Now we know how soft prison life is, what with the solid gold toilet in the center of the cell you share with eight other dudes, and the free cabernet made in said toilet. But it turns out being an inmate is actually not the get-rich-quick scheme it's made out to be on television. It's even harder now

  August 6, 2009

• Reporter's Notebook: Clarence Gibson recalls his glory days tracking the 'Westport rapist'

  Missouri DOCCharles Wheat​The title of "Westport Rapist" has been recycled several times throughout the last 30 years. There's been Robert Fellows, Samuel Johnson, Shy Bland and Gary Jackman, to name a few. Clarence Gibson, who is 67-years-old and a 20-year veteran of the Kansas City, Missouri, Police Department, worked as a detective in the sex crimes unit from 1976 to 1987, and again during his final year with the KCPD, from '93 to '94. In the early days with the department, Gibson says, d

  August 20, 2009

• Weekend Distractions

  1. Take a road trip! Weston, Missouri, is holding its annual Irish festival today through Sunday. There's also a motorcycle rally happening Saturday and Sunday in Urich, Missouri.2. Support the Fringe Festival by attending Fall Into Fringe, a fund-raising event on Saturday night featuring drama, poetry, music and more.Nikki Moreno​3. Eat some brains! On Saturday, there's a zombie walk through Country Club Plaza and a zombie prom/art show/costume contest/film screening at Alcott Arts Center.4.

  October 9, 2009

• Cynthia Davis wants guns in churches

  ​In the latest edition of her e-newsletter, O'Fallon loon (and Missouri state Rep.) Cynthia Davis shows off her concealed-carry permit -- this woman can legally carry a gun? -- and argues in favor of churchgoers packing heat in houses of the holy. Damn those draconian Missouri laws outlawing guns in churches. She writes:One concern I have with the current law is that guns are prohibited in churches. This means there is no defense for the members if a criminal act is attempted or perpetrated.Yo

  November 5, 2009

• News flash: Gay marriage is a conservative cause!

  ​In one way, it was surprising to see what might appear to be a blasphemous argument coming from the Missouri Record, a journal of politics and policy put out by the conservative Missourians for Responsible Government.But there it was, yesterday, a post headlined "Economics of Gay Marriage."In the post, Stephen Eisele, a Springfield political consultant and Obama delegate to last year's Democratic National Convention, notes that despite some recent electoral reversals for gay marriage, the gen

  November 13, 2009