Gay penguins are welcome in North Kansas City schools.
So is the determination of the North Kansas City School Board that voted 3-2 to allow the presence of And Tango Makes Three. The children’s book is based on the true story of Roy and Silo, two male penguins with gay tendencies, which adopted a chick and [...]

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This billboard recently popped up on I-70 in Missouri.
The Lafayette County Republicans were so enamored with it that they posted it on their website. It will be interesting to see how long it lasts there.
Of course, they emphasized “Vote Out Incumbents. Live Free or Die!” in their title, but made no hesitation emphasizing the war [...]

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Last year, the National Socialist Movement, a neo-Nazi group, joined Missouri’s Adopt-A-Highway program. The Missouri Transportation Department did not have any legal recourse but to let the NSM take part as they meet all the legal requirements.
That highway adoption did not go down well. Neo-Nazis in swastikas picking up trash is not one of the [...]

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Apparently, Missouri voters prefer dead candidates. That doesn’t say much about the living ones.
A month after he died, Harry Stonebraker was re-elected Mayor of Winfield, Missouri. Stonebraker didn’t just slip by in a narrow election win, either. He polled 90% of the vote, beating his alderman Bernie Panther 206 to 23. 
Lincoln County Clerk Elaine Luck said, “I [...]

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If you’re in Missouri, it might be better to take that old Ron Paul or Bob Barr bumper sticker off your car. A February 20 report to help Missouri law enforcement identify domestic terrorists has some alarming advice.
The report is put out by the Missouri Information Analysis Center, which is a “public safety partnership consisting of [...]

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Have you been harassed by automated political phone calls? How about automated calls in general? Even though none of these calls are illegal, Missouri Attorney General Jay Nixon has decided to use the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 to put some accountability into the makers of the robocalls.
That law requires the caller to identify who is [...]

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Missouri’s Cole County has a problem with Tuesday’s Republican primary. Poll workers at one of the precincts for Eastern District Commissioner forgot to cross reference the voters with the proper ballots. The voters were given ballots for the Western District Commissioner. The wrong ballots were given to 144 voters. Although that is not a good [...]

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The way Rebecca Nassikas figures it she has pumped close to half-a-million dollars into the Missouri Attorney General race. Her ex-husband, state Senator Chris Koster, lent his Attorney General campaign about $200,000. Nassikas believes that was possible because of the $580,000 divorce settlement he received from her in 2005. 
Nassikas figured there was only one thing [...]

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Last year a bill legalizing midwifery passed the legislature and was signed by the Governor before someone realized it was not suppose to be in the bill. This year a bill that included a provision outlawing chemical abortions passed the state Senate. This time the error was caught before the Governor signed it. The Senate [...]

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