I see that Missouri Farmers Care has moved on from fighting for the puppy mills and is now fighting for genetically modified foods. I expect next we’ll see an article about the healthful benefits of CAFO manure lagoons. Governor Nixon signed SB 161. That’s all that’s happened. He signed a bill that gutted Proposition B. Oh, […]
Month: April 2011
Missouri’s Governor Nixon asked the Missouri Attorney General to file suit in court to block the Army Corps of Engineers from blowing up the Birds Point Levee. Blowing the levee will flood farmland and about 100 homes in Missouri, but not blowing the levee could very well endanger the entire town of Cairo, Illinois. A few […]
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The money game
One of the problems I kept running into when preparing stories for this site is the fact that Missouri’s Department of Agriculture seems to have abysmal data systems. Every Sunshine Law request, no matter how small, exceeded whatever amount of money I had set as a cap for the request. Now it would seem the […]
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Politics
The bill we fought so hard for, Proposition B, was killed today. It was killed by the state legislature, and it was killed by Governor Nixon. It had the honor of dying in a bi-partisan fashion, killed by Democrat and Republican alike. I have found there is one thing that can bring both parties together: […]
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And so much for the voters…
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Word is now circulating that Governor Nixon signed SB 113. The will of the voters means little to the people in Jefferson City. Cruelty to dogs means even less. Update: Confirmation from Yael T. Abouhalkah from the Kansas City Star. Not to worry, claims Nixon in an oily move: The legislature has […]