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Openness

Recovered from the Wayback machine. The current Proposition B debate in the state legislature has not been a demonstration of openness in government. As I highlighted earlier, the Missouri Senate Agricultural committee has passed a bill to send to the Senate floor that states it’s only a modification, when in actually it completely guts Proposition […]

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Madonna of the Mills

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. A friend pointed out a new documentary, Madonna of the Mills. It’s about Laura Flynn Amato’s mission to save dogs from puppy mills. The trailer demonstrates the problems associated with large scale commercial dog breeding. At one point in the movie, the camera shows a poor retriever, who turns and looks […]

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More backdoor legislative moves

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Tomorrow is going to be a nasty day, weather wise and in the state legislature. Two bills are doing to be discussed in public meetings: hJR 3 and HB 100. HJR 3 wants to put a bill on the ballot to vote on a Constitutional amendment to ensure that no other citizen initiative […]

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And now…the political cartoons

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. FiredUpMissouri has links to two different political cartoons related to the recent Proposition B legislative activity. I thought I would provide a long description for these cartoons for my friends using screen readers. The first cartoon is from RJ Matson for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. It features a dog, standing in […]

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Senate is first out of the gate

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. The senate agricultural committee is the first with a bill to the floor to modify Proposition B. Considering that community discussion was cut off yesterday and the other bills not discussed, it’s obvious that the state senators had no interest in discussing this bill, or even in providing a pretense of […]