St Louis Post Dispatch
Oblivious to children’s hunger.
06/16/2009
State Rep. Cynthia Davis, R-O’Fallon, is staking out a strong position on child hunger: She’s for it.
“Hunger can be a positive motivator,” she notes in the latest edition of her newsletter.
More precisely, Ms. Davis is against summer feeding programs for poor kids.
They are an excuse “to create an expansion […]
LIVE LIKE YOU MEAN IT
is the new tourism and business slogan.
Sadly, it sounds somewhat stilted–despite the intended meaning.
One would have expected to have found the slogan in the last century.
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While there are complaints about its meaning,
there are other, more problematic slogans.
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Images:(Buster Brown) via memoriesandnostalgia.com; (explosion) rosscairn.gnn.tv via blog.wired.com; (Ragnar) fearthegooberzilla.com via gooberzilla.wordpress.com (Missouri) […]
OK: Oklahoma license plate touts terror fight
For Sooners looking to show their terror-fighting pride while tearing up the asphalt, the Oklahoma Tax Commission has extended the deadline to order the global war on terrorism license plate (aka GWOT) pictured here.
It’s a great idea which will fire the imagination of other states’
departments of motor vehicles…
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“Salon’s shameful six
There was Florida in 2000 and Ohio in 2004. Here are the six states where vote suppression could cost voters their voice — and Democrats the election — in 2006.
By Art Levine
Aug. 15, 2006 | Eva Steele has a son in the military who is supposed to be fighting for freedom in Iraq, […]
Parish Fights Archbishop to Keep Parish AliveBy Manya A. Brachear
Chicago Tribune staff reporterMarch 26, 2006
ST. LOUIS — On a recent Sunday at St. Stanislaus Kostka Church, the file of faithful streaming up to receive Communion stretched from the nave to the back pew.
Hands clasped and heads bowed, the parishioners returned to their seats reverentially after […]
Missouri Drama Teacher Resigns in Play Flap
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: March 18, 2006
Filed at 9:24 a.m. ET
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — A central Missouri high school drama teacher whose spring play was canceled after complaints about tawdry content in one of her previous productions will resign rather than face a possible firing.
‘’It became too much to […]
Posted on Thu, Mar. 16, 2006
Low-income women would be affected House OKs birth control funding ban
By Kit Wagar
The Star’s Jefferson City correspondent
JEFFERSON CITY — The Missouri House voted Wednesday to ban state funding of contraceptives for low-income women and to prohibit state-funded programs from referring those women to other programs.
Critics jumped on the proposal, saying […]