http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/mo-news/ en-us Sun, 5 Jul 2009 20:01:59 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2286069/posts NEW YORK (AP)—Albert Pujols(notes) will be in a familiar spot when St. Louis hosts the 80th All-Star game. Boston knuckleballer Tim Wakefield(notes) is headed for a brand new situation. Pujols was the leading vote-getter in balloting for the Midsummer Classic announced Sunday by Major League Baseball, giving the Cardinals first baseman the start in his home ballpark. The NL MVP is well on his way to another amazing year, leading the majors with 31 homers and 82 RBIs. It’s his eighth All-Star selection in nine seasons and fifth start. Wakefield made his first All-Star roster in his 17th season, one... AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2286069/posts#comment Sun, 5 Jul 2009 20:01:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2284256/posts SPRINGFIELD -- You might expect to see a Breathalyzer in a police officer's car. You might not expect to see one in your neighbor's vehicle. That may soon be a reality that more Missourians must face because of a newly effective law that affects people convicted of drunken driving. In 2001, a new law let judges require individuals convicted of two or more alcohol-related driving offenses to pass a Breathalyzer test before starting their cars. Because few judges used that punishment, the Legislature and Gov. Matt Blunt approved a tougher law last year but it didn't go into effect until... KY3 TV (Springfield MO) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2284256/posts#comment Thu, 2 Jul 2009 17:51:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2283723/posts JEFFERSON CITY | There's never a dull day in the capital city. Today's evidence: a visit from Orly Taitz , the California dentist/lawyer (and black belt in Tae Kwon Do!) who's filed lawsuits disputing President Barack Obama's citizenship. Taitz spoke to a crowd of about 40 at a hotel here this afternoon, and in a little over an hour threw a kitchen sink's worth of accusations at the president. To wit: Obama has failed to produce a true copy of his Hawaii birth certificate; the birth documentation he has produced may be a forgery; Obama may have forged his selective... Kansas City Star http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2283723/posts#comment Thu, 2 Jul 2009 00:35:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2283713/posts JEFFERSON CITY — Two Missouri state representatives today attended meetings conducted by Orly Taitz in which the California dentist questioned the validity of the presidency of Barack Obama. Taitz alleges that Obama’s birth certificate is illegitimate, and even if it’s not, she says, he can’t be president because his father was Kenyan. She pushed her conspiracy theories and asked for money today at events in St. Charles and Jefferson City. Taitz said the Supreme Court is complicit in “illegal activity” for blocking her attempts to remove Obama from the presidency. Rep. Cynthia Davis, R- O’Fallon, who has gotten a bit... stltoday http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2283713/posts#comment Thu, 2 Jul 2009 00:24:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2282333/posts 1. Alaska 2. Maine 3. New Mexico 4. Arkansas 5. Texas 6. Missouri 7. Oregon 8. Idaho 9. Virginia 10. Wyoming human events http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2282333/posts#comment Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:33:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2282627/posts   NARTH News   June 29, 2009   The National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality Journal of Human Sexuality now in NARTH Bookstore   Many are calling this the most important landscape review on the essential aspects of homosexuality and treatment in the last decade. Get your copy today or order one for a friend, your congressman, or a member of the local school board. 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The White House said Tuesday that Major League Baseball’s focus on community service matches with Obama’s service initiative this summer, known as United We Serve. “The central theme of the 2009 All-Star game is community service, celebrating the extraordinary work being done by ordinary people,” baseball commissioner Bud Selig said. “We are thrilled that we can come together with President Obama, who has encouraged a renewed spirit of national service, and illustrate a call to action... Globe and Mail http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2278181/posts#comment Wed, 24 Jun 2009 09:32:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2277826/posts MOBERLY, Mo. (AP) - Attorneys say a northeast Missouri city has agreed to pay $2.4 million to survivors of a man who died after police fired a Taser at him numerous times. Lawyers for the family of Stanley Harlan, 23, say the settlement with the city of Moberly was filed Monday in U.S. District Court in St. Louis. The agreement includes an indefinite moratorium on the use of Tasers by Moberly police officers. Harlan died in August 2008 after being pulled over by a Moberly police officer who suspected him of drunken driving. The lawsuit said other Moberly officers arrived... KHQA http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2277826/posts#comment Tue, 23 Jun 2009 21:28:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2276904/posts Demonstrations in the wake of Iran's presidential election are a sign that country's dissidents want the U.S. to get involved in the disputed contest, Sen. Kit Bond (R-Mo.) asserted Monday. Bond, the ranking member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, pushed back against President Obama's claim that the election is not a U.S. issue, and urged the administration to speak out more forcefully in favor of Iranian dissidents."We didn't have anything to do with this uprising; we're not trying to tell them who they should select," Bond said on CNBC Monday morning. "But when they have such obvious election fraud and... The Hill - Briefing Room Blog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2276904/posts#comment Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:50:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2276836/posts Two prominent Republicans today endorsed the bid of U.S. Rep. Roy Blunt for the U.S. Senate. The Associated Press reported that former U.S. Sen. Jim Talent and Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder announced their support for the Congressman’s campaign. St. Louis Today http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2276836/posts#comment Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:29:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2276744/posts A Christian group in Missouri will be allowed to freely distribute religious literature at “gay pride” event this weekend after a federal judge ruled in their favor. Another Christian group in Michigan, however, was not so fortunate in its quest for free distribution at a recent Arab festival but is still hopeful for a favorable conclusion. On Thursday, U.S. District Judge Nancy Edmunds denied a motion from Calif.-based ministry Arabic Christian Perspective (ACP) for a temporary restraining order that would have prohibited the city of Dearborn, Mich., from restricting the group from handing out literature during the Arab International Festival,... Christian Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2276744/posts#comment Mon, 22 Jun 2009 12:41:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2273155/posts The US Air Force today revealed plans to acquire a small arsenal of a new 13,600kg (30,000lb) penetrator bomb to deploy on Northrop Grumman B-2As in three years. The USAF's public notice follows several years of testing the Boeing GBU57A/B Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP), which is designed to destroy hardened bunkers buried deeply underground. The USAF plans to begin flight tests on the B-2A starting in June 2011 and reach operational status by June 2012, the USAF notice says. Integrating the MOP requires no changes to the B-2A's operational flight programme, avoiding a potentially costly and time-consuming recertification process. The... Flight International http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2273155/posts#comment Tue, 16 Jun 2009 23:19:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2274105/posts House GOP leaders who unveiled their “vision” for healthcare reform made clear that a major provision endorsed by 2008 GOP presidential nominee Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) was not included. Rep. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), chairman of the Health Care Solutions Group that spent months writing a "comprehensive" reform plan, said that McCain's proposal to tax employer-based benefits was "certainly not part of our plan." The Hill, Washington, DC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2274105/posts#comment Thu, 18 Jun 2009 02:21:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2273684/posts After being briefed today on President Obama’s firing last week of Gerald Walpin, Inspector General of the Corporation for National and Community Service, Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., said the president did not abide by the same law that he co-sponsored – and she wrote – about firing Inspectors General. “The White House has failed to follow the proper procedure in notifying Congress as to the removal of the Inspector General for the Corporation for National and Community Service,” McCaskill said. “The legislation which was passed last year requires that the president give a reason for the removal.” ABC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2273684/posts#comment Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:39:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2272607/posts Rep. Roy Blunt’s path to the Republican nomination in Missouri’s Senate race got clearer last week, and it could become crystal-clear soon. Former state Treasurer Sarah Steelman appears increasingly less likely to run against Blunt, and she acknowledged Monday that she is looking at a possible campaign for Blunt’s open House seat as an alternative. Steelman said shortly after Sen. Kit Bond’s (R-Mo.) retirement announcement in January that she was leaning toward entering the Senate race, and for a while, it was a foregone conclusion. But after unleashing a string of Blunt criticisms and opening an exploratory committee in April,... The Hill http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2272607/posts#comment Tue, 16 Jun 2009 03:07:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2270404/posts BRIDGETON — For decades, they roared across the St. Louis sky, inspiring awe and, on occasion, rattling windows. But come Sunday, the last Air National Guard fighter jets stationed at Lambert-St. Louis International Airport are scheduled to make their final departure, the result of a 2005 plan that called for the twin-tailed F-15 Eagles to be redeployed to guard units in Hawaii and Montana. The flights mark the end of an era for St. Louis and the 131st Fighter Wing, a highly-decorated unit that can trace its roots in the city back 86 years and whose members included Charles Lindbergh.... ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2270404/posts#comment Fri, 12 Jun 2009 15:08:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2262898/posts A crowd gathered at JC Nichols Fountain at the Plaza this evening to grieve together over the murder of Dr. George Tiller. Community members along with Planned Parenthood organizers, the ACLU and a few political and religious leaders remembered Tiller, whom they called a courageous man and a compassionate doctor. Speakers focused not only on Tiller’s work but also who he was as a person. Peter Brownlie, president of Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri, remembered him as kind, respectful, thoughtful, funny, warm and committed to his wife and children — a religious man who put the health of women... The Kansas City Red Star http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2262898/posts#comment Tue, 2 Jun 2009 14:20:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2260833/posts The District of Columbia Office of Tax and Revenue has asked Rep. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., and his spouse to pay $6,820 in back property taxes for their Washington, D.C., home. A spokesman for Blunt had said Blunt and his wife received the tax breaks because the D.C. government had erred. Tax records reviewed by the Kansas City Star and detailed in a report in April show that the Blunts received a homestead exemption to deduct $67,500 from the assessed value of their $1.6 million house in Georgetown, which resulted in a $575 tax break this year. But the Blunts claim... St. Louis Business Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2260833/posts#comment Fri, 29 May 2009 21:05:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2260357/posts <p>On Sunday, after 17-year-old Ledarius Williams turned his gun on police - who then shot him in the knee -- at the corner of Cherokee Street and Texas Avenue, one responding officer told a resident that every cop in St. Louis knew of the 17-year-old, thanks to a robust criminal record.</p> riverfronttimes.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2260357/posts#comment Fri, 29 May 2009 06:26:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2259410/posts Note: The following text is a quote: Eight Uzbekistan Nationals Among 12 Charged with Racketeering, Human Trafficking & Immigration Violations in Scheme to Employ Illegal Aliens in 14 States Twelve defendants, including eight Uzbekistan nationals, have been charged in a 45-count indictment returned by a federal grand jury in Kansas City, Mo., on May 6, 2009, on RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) charges related to labor racketeering, forced labor trafficking and immigration and other violations in 14 states. Abrorkhodja Askarkhodjaev, 30, Nodir Yunusov, 22, Rustamjon Shukurov, 21, citizens of Uzbekistan residing in Mission, Kan.; Ilkham Fazilov, 44, Nodirbek... US DOJ.GOV/opa - Press Release http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2259410/posts#comment Wed, 27 May 2009 23:41:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2258852/posts Are we looking at the biggest political scandal since Watergate? Big Dem Donor Group allowed to keep all 6 Chrysler dealerships open.... Local competitors eliminated by Obama's task force!! Earlier it was reported that the Obama Administration may have targeted GOP donors in deciding which Chrysler dealerships would have to close their doors. Now there's this... RLJ-McLarty-Landers is owned by three men. One was the former Chief of Staff for President Clinton. One is the founder of Black Entertainment Television and a huge Obama supporter. All 6 of their Chrysler dealerships will remain open. And, get this... Their local competitors... Gateway Pundit http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2258852/posts#comment Wed, 27 May 2009 05:09:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2256764/posts EDITORIAL Crop Farmers Could Also Be Impacted by EPA Tax By Estil Fretwell Missouri Farm BureauCut to the Chase An editorial column from the Missouri Farm Bureau Federation701 South Country Club Drive, Jefferson City, MO 65102 · Voice (573) 893-1468 · Fax (573) 893-1560 · www.mofb.org This column may also be used as an op/ed piece or letter to the editor. Crop Farmers Could Also Be Impacted by EPA Tax By Estil Fretwell Considerable media attention has been given to the Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking published last fall by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) which could tax livestock flatulence.... Missouri Farm Bureau http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2256764/posts#comment Sat, 23 May 2009 05:53:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2255953/posts An end-of-session attempt in Jefferson City to snare $133 million in federal stimulus money for expanding unemployment benefits has hit an unanticipated snag. The U.S. Labor Department said Tuesday that the wording of the legislation made Missouri ineligible to receive the federal dollars. “Missouri’s law regarding their (unemployment insurance) changes would deem them ineligible for UI Modernization funds as passed,” a spokeswoman for the Labor Department wrote The Kansas City Star in an e-mail. ***** Unlike their counterparts in Missouri, Kansas lawmakers intentionally made the changes permanent to meet the federal requirements for stimulus money. State Rep. Raj Goyle, a... Kansas City Red Star http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2255953/posts#comment Fri, 22 May 2009 01:05:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2254925/posts Where can you connect with 200 free-market conservatives from the Midwest, the South and across the Plains at one single event? On June 3 - 4, 2009, in St. Louis, Missouri, the Conservative Heartland Leadership Conference (CHLC) will bring together fiscal and social conservatives in a two-day conference focused on Transparency, National Security, Judicial Elections, Messaging and Term Limits Review. We are anticipating a broad group of policy advocates from across the mid-west, south and plains states. As you can see from the tentative schedule here, we have a first class line-up of speakers such as Former Missouri Governor Matt... Conservative Leadership Conference link http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2254925/posts#comment Wed, 20 May 2009 19:59:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2253408/posts Chrysler said Monday it upgraded its buyout offers for workers at the plants the automaker plans to close — including in Fenton — as part of its bankruptcy restructuring. Fenton workers within two years of retirement eligibility on the dates their plants close will be placed on leave of absence with 85 percent of their pay until they are eligible for retirement. The offers include a $115,000 lump-sum payment for workers with more than 10 years of seniority who choose to leave the company. Workers with fewer than 10 years of seniority can get a $75,000 lump-sum payment plus a... St Louis Business Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2253408/posts#comment Mon, 18 May 2009 20:15:29 GMT