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Todd Akin Finds His Own "Reverend Wright" In Radical Militia Leader

This week isn't the first time Todd Akin has had to answer questions about his relationship with Tim Dreste, one of the country's most infamous anti-abortion activists of the 1990s. But with election day just two weeks away, a national media that's always achin' for some Akin, and news that Akin was ... More >>

Delta Flight Skids in Snow Saturday; Plane Carried Kit Bond and Adam Wainwright

The spring storm that dropped more than four inches of snow Saturday at St. Louis Lambert Field is being blamed for a frightful landing that day. A Delta flight from Atlanta carrying 142 passengers touched down around 5:30 p.m. and briefly skidded off the runway before the pilot was able to correct ... More >>

"Don't Ask, Don't Tell" Is Dead. How Did Our Congresspeople Vote?

​Unless you've been hiding out under a rock, you probably heard that Saturday, the Senate followed the House in voting to repeal "Don't Ask, Don't Tell." DADT, signed into law in 1993 by President Bill Clinton, was meant to be a compromise on allowing lesbian, gay and bisexual soldiers to serve in ... More >>

New Dem Party Chair Susan Montee: "We're Down About as Far as We Can Go"

Can she bring her party out of the doldrums?​One month after Missouri's Democratic candidates suffered a series of bruising defeats in the midterm elections, the party swiftly moved to make a change at the helm. Out as party chairman is Craig Hosmer, who held the post for two years. In his p ... More >>

Food Safety Bill Passes Senate

Image via​Legislation to overhaul the nation's oversight of food safety passed the Senate this morning by a vote of 73 to 25. The bill greatly increases the FDA's authority over food producers.Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill (D) voted in favor of the bill; retiring Senator Kit Bond (R) abstained ... More >>

Missourians Are Schizophrenic About Earmarks

Image via​Our state can't get its story straight.  Yesterday, The New York Times' unpacked the debate over earmarks (are they good or evil?) by focusing on the St. Louis experience. Here's a quote from our mayor, Francis Slay, on Senator Kit Bond's love of federal $$$ and how Bond corralled i ... More >>

Lucky You: You're Worth $34.75 in Earmarks This Year

image via​We all know that our junior senator, Claire McCaskill, is outspoken about the need to eliminate earmarks and pork barrel legislation. Of course, this doesn't mean that all of Missouri's congressional delegation ascribes to this same kosher view of government spending. (No pork, get it?)C ... More >>

Tea Party Crasher: Hard-charging Ed Martin wants to win your vote — and Russ Carnahan's congressional seat

Lady Gaga Can't Save "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"

Image ViaLady Gaga at Monday's rally.​Missouri Senator Kit Bond joined his Republican colleagues and three Democrats yesterday in defeating a defense spending bill that would repeal the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy allowing gays to openly serve in the armed forces. (Sen. Claire McCask ... More >>

Blunt and Bond: Religous Freedom Doesn't Apply For Mosque Near Ground Zero

Image viaAn abandoned Burlington Coat Factory near Ground Zero? That's just wrong.​Campaigning yesterday in Kansas City, Republican senate candidate Roy Blunt told reporters that he opposes a plan to build a mosque two blocks away from "Ground Zero" in New York."We constantly talk about what's app ... More >>

Presenting BasilMarceaux.com for Governor of Tennessee

Friends, it's primary day tomorrow. Based on preliminary polls, the majority of you neither know, nor care, even though Kit Bond's Senate seat is up for grabs. Things are much more exciting down in our southeastern neighbor Tennessee, where Basil Marceaux of Soddy-Daisy (yes, really) is on the Repu ... More >>

Kit Bond Falls Asleep During Intelligence Briefing

"Kit and I sometimes have trouble staying awake during those boring intelligence briefings."​Seems everyone is asleep at the wheel these days. Oh well, these are troubled and tiring times, after all. We could all use a good nap. Take Ken Griffey Jr., for one. The Seattle Mariner's ce ... More >>

Senator Kit Bond Gets Frothy Over 'Terrorists' and 'Rights'

John McCain managed quite a feat this week: He somehow got both Glenn Beck and John Stewart to agree with each other. The issue? How flat-out wrong the Arizona senator is when he says that U.S.-born people merely suspected of being terrorists should be denied their Miranda rights. Agree with McCain ... More >>

U.S. Senate Election 2010: Roy Blunt Leading Robin Carnahan by 6 Points

Roy Blunt continues to hang on to his lead to be Missouri's next U.S. Senator.​In a race almost certain to attract widespread national attention later this year, Republican Rep. Roy Blunt continues to lead Democrat Robin Carnahan in the Missouri Senate contest, according to the latest Rasmu ... More >>

Here's A New One: Child Molester for Mayor!

The Show-Me State embraces diversity when it comes to elected officials -- or the candidates, anyway. Who doesn't remember Midge Potts, the transgender war activist who lost to Roy Blunt in the 2006 Congressionals (and is now trying to beat him to Kit Bond's soon-to-be-vacant Senate seat)?Still. Thi ... More >>

Roy Blunt "Proud" To Be On Environmentalist's Dirty Dozen List

Image Via Lee Marvin does not approve of Roy Blunt's environmental voting record​The League of Conservation Voters released its annual "Dirty Dozen" list of U.S. lawmakers who consistently vote against clean energy and the environment yesterday and Missouri's Roy Blunt was among the dirtiest.The g ... More >>

About Those Terrorists Moving In Next Door

So you may have heard that Missouri will soon be getting some new neighbors. Yesterday, Illinois governor Pat Quinn received a letter from President Obama informing him that the terrorism suspects currently detained in Guantanamo Bay will be moved to a largely unused prison in Thomson Illinois, a fe ... More >>

Sen. Kit Bond Steals the Show on The Daily Show

Longtime Missouri Senator Christopher "Kit" Bond, a stalwart Republican, has said more than a few things in his lengthy political career to draw the comedic wrath of Daily Show host Jon Stewart. In April, for instance, he claimed that punishing those responsible for Bush-era torture policies was som ... More >>

Activists Make Progress in Attempt to Save Wiegand Foundation from The Wrecking Ball

A spokeswoman for the grassroots group trying to save artist Don Wiegand's Chesterfield Valley studio says the Army Corps of Engineers appears to be backing down from its plan to condemn Wiegand's property in order to make way for a levee. Sen. Christopher "Kit" Bond and Congressman Todd Akin have s ... More >>

Senator Kit Bond Leads Charge to Save Boeing F/A-18 Super Hornet, Missouri Jobs

Among the cuts Defense Secretary Robert Gates proposed in his 2010 budget in April was for funding of the Boeing F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter plane. Yesterday Missouri Senator Kit Bond and several colleagues sent a letter to the Senate Appropriations Committee to restore funding for the F/A-18 and, i ... More >>

Sen. Kit Bond Wins Biggest Pork Ranking in New Book

Citizens Against Government Waste is out with its 2009 Congressional Pig Book. The agency names Sen. Kit Bond as the biggest pork spender in Missouri. According to to the book, Bond appropriated more than $30 million in earmarks during 2009 fiscal year appropriations. Those projects included $950,00 ... More >>

"Knight Rider" Fans Optimistic Sen. Kit Bond Will Return To Acting

In a speech to the Missouri General Assembly this morning, Senator Christopher "Kit" Bond announced that he won't seek a fifth term in office in 2010. "In 1972, I became Missouri's youngest Governor. Ladies and Gentlemen, I do not aspire to become Missouri's oldest Senator," said Bond. T ... More >>

Hot Damn! McCain's Pick of Palin Sets Bill for VP Debate in St. Louis

The Morning Brew: Tuesday, 6.17

October Surprise

Now we know just how far candidates will go -- and just how much Pimp Juice they'll drink -- for an endorsement

Know News?

The year in review: A quiz (For answers, see last page)

The Smoking Gun

Former Mallinckrodt workers get some long-awaited fallout

Contempo Casual

The splendid new Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis takes our city's art scene to a whole new level

Meet Our Match

This just in: St. Louisans are sexy, literate and breathing in way too many toxins; Unreal is invited to take part in uprisings -- legally sanctioned and otherwise; and the P-D editorial staff takes God to task

Double-Take

Competing nominations bring high-pressure politics to the Century Building -- again

No Thanks, We're Brits

Week of October 23, 2002

Blood and Guts

Jean Carnahan's shooting prowess could take her into the trenches

Base Motives

It's lonely at the top for Talent and Carnahan

Are You Confused About Anything?

Week of August 21, 2002

The Mad Minute

Week of May 8, 2002

The Job Hunter

Boeing triumph touches Bond's political Seoul

Dead Man Voting

St. Louis elections are a national joke. Trouble is, it's not funny anymore.

Hair-Raising Experience

Week of January 23, 2002

Letters

Week of December 27, 2000

Slimin' the City

When it comes to Election Day problems in St. Louis, the politicians' rhetoric doesn't match the reality

Show-Me Neglect

"Deadbeat dads" in the Missouri governor's mansion

A Cheney Link to St. Louis

Published the week of July 26-August 1, 2000

The Dogs Bark, The Caravan Moves On

St. Louis comings and goings in anno Domini 1999

OUR OLD HOMETOWN FIGHTER PLANE

POPE-ASHCROFT HOLY WAR

Fresh from alienating black voters over the Ronnie White fiasco, will Sen. John Ashcroft take on Catholics in his drive to defeat Senate rival Gov. Mel Carnahan?

IS JOHN ASHCROFT A RACIST, OR DOES HE JUST PLAY ONE ON TV?

Guns and Poses

Frenzied politicians do the Littleton shuffle

Short Cuts

Clearing the Air

Challenged by pro-business groups more interested in profit than in clean air, attorney Lewis C. Green fights to make the government enforce its own air-quality standards

The Last Picture Show