by admin | Jun 27, 2006 | Politics / Govt
It’s only June, and already Missouri’s U.S. Senate race is attracting a lot of big names from outside the Show-Me State. The Missourinet has learned, and the McCaskill for Senate Campaign has confirmed, former U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno is scheduled...
by admin | Jun 26, 2006 | Politics / Govt
Two public opinion polls on Missouri’s U.S. Senate race, conducted within the last two weeks, have strikingly different results. The Research 2000 survey, conducted for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and KMOV-TV, gives Democratic challenger Claire McCaskill the...
by admin | Jun 22, 2006 | Politics / Govt
Two proposals dealing with the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq have gone down to defeat in the U.S. Senate. One would have required what was called a “redeployment” of troops starting immediately and to be completed by July 1st of next year. The second...
by admin | Jun 21, 2006 | Politics / Govt
Senators Kit Bond and Jim Talent are on the winning side in a U.S. Senate vote that rejects a proposal to raise the federal minimum wage, but a Missouri group holds out hope for an increase at the state level. The goal of some Senators was to raise the minimum wage...
by admin | Jun 14, 2006 | Politics / Govt
The Claire McCaskill for Senate campaign has taken down an offensive comment posted on a blog portion of the McCaskill for Missouri website. The comment criticized U.S. Senator Jim Talent and suggested he be shot. Upon disccovering this posting, the Talent for Senate...
