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By Hannah Fairfield and Adam Liptak This is the time of year that the news media rolls out a familiar graphic: nine head shots of Supreme Court justices, arrayed from most liberal to most conservative. In spacing the head shots at equal intervals, the graphics suggest a steady procession [...]
Mayor Francis Slay fired the opening salvo in what could become a protracted, but ultimately enlightening, battle over Missouri's constitutional ban on gay marriage. After marrying four couples at City Hall this week, he was stopped by a lawsuit from the State's Attorney General, who is forced to uphold the [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court largely left intact Monday the Obama administration's only existing program to limit power plant and factory emissions of the gases blamed for global warming. But a divided court also rebuked environmental regulators for taking too much authority into their own hands without congressional approval. [...]
By MARIA ALTMAN The Environment Protection Agency’s proposed regulations on carbon emissions released earlier this month are sparking debate on whether the rule changes will create jobs or kill jobs. Credit (Veronique LaCapra/St. Louis Public Radio) The new rules seek to reduce American’s carbon dioxide emissions from the power sector [...]
What an interesting week it has been in politics. First, last week's stunning defeat of Virginia's Eric Cantor, who lost to an unknown Tea Party candidate. Then the admission on the heels of the Romney summit in Utah that there is a division within the Republican Party and no clear [...]
Read the New York Times Article about Eric Cantor By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG June 11, 2014 WASHINGTON — As the lone Jewish Republican in Congress, representing a deeply conservative, overwhelmingly Christian district in Virginia while dreaming of becoming the first Jewish speaker of the House, Representative Eric Cantor always had a delicate [...]
Last night's stunning primary defeat of House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Virginia) should be a rallying point for Moderate Republicans. Cantor may not have lost because he flirted with immigration or education reform or as one pundit speculated, because of his religion. His Goliath defeat to a David could boil [...]
I have blogged for the last couple of years about the need to put job creation ahead of social issues and to agree to disagree on abortion because, at the end of the day, most people have their minds made up about their personal views on the issue. I have [...]
I just read today that Missouri is ground zero in the battle over centrist versus extreme right orthodoxy. Looking around town and hearing the conversations that are unfolding around and about this state, it is hard not to feel the initial ripples of change unfolding. First of all, I saw [...]
Hospitals see blue-red divide early into Obamacare’s coverage expansion BY JASON MILLMANThe blue-red divide in Medicaid expansion The Hospital Corporation of America, which has facilities in 20 states, reported a big gap in Medicaid and uninsured admissions between expansion and non-expansion states. In the four states it operates where Medicaid expanded [...]