I want to highlight this tweet from James Fallows: Biden at last night's presser: 1) He looks, sounds, "reads as," and is ... old. 2) He also walked across an absolute minefield of issues and Qs — PRC/Taiwan, detente-but-diff w Xi, Gaza, Ukr, etc—without any missteps. #2 is much harder than it seem. He is ...continue reading "Choose: A real president or a high-octane fake?"
Missouri’s Division of Cannabis Regulation says it will revoke the marijuana manufacturing license of a facility at the center of a controversial recall. The revocation will go into effect December 2.
There is a traveling elk on the loose who has been spotted in Springfield, Illinois. The timing couldn't be better—you can convince your children that it's one of Santa's reindeer now that it's here—but if you spot it, you should notify the game warden in your county immediately.
Missouri could be the first state with a near-total abortion ban to use the initiative petition process to restore access. But time is running short, with a May deadline to collect enough signatures looming and court battles over ballot summaries still plodding along. And while voters in Ohio became just the latest to overwhelmingly back […]
The Plan for the Day My kids say I go about planning Thanksgiving like it was the D-Day invasion. They say I worry too much. I tell them somebody has to. My Thanksgiving buffet is always an old-fashion Southern-style meal. Dishes are much like my mother used to make. Here are my recollections of those bygone...
A couple of days ago a Random Guy on Twitter (RGOT) wrote that "Jewish communities" have been pushing "hatred against whites." Nobody would much care about this RGOT except that Elon Musk immediately replied, "You have said the actual truth." Now, Musk has a beef with the ADL, so maybe he was just venting about ...continue reading "Antisemitism is going mainstream on the right"
Council members thought they might have some say in laying off 16 public health employees. But the employees had already received their layoff notices.
There’s nothing new about cop shops letting their tech providers write their press releases for them. Law enforcement officers love power but often think nothing of surrendering their autonomy to the providers of the snooping tools. For years, Harris Corporation — the maker of Stingray devices — told cops what they could or couldn’t say […]
In a sweeping rebuff of four different utilities, Illinois regulators have sharply curtailed record rate hikes proposed for more than 4 million gas customers across the state, while also blocking most spending on a controversial pipe-replacement program that has fueled a heating affordability crisis for consumers in recent years. Under the rulings by the Illinois Commerce Commission (ICC) Thursday, customers of Peoples Gas, Nicor Gas, Ameren Illinois and North Shore Gas will still incur a rate increase, putting more stress on already struggling families – a pattern consumer advocates have said they are determined to stifle in coming years. Nonetheless, the decisions significantly limited the size of the rate hikes that the utilities threatened to inflict on consumers, and they collectively signaled that the regulatory climate in Illinois may be shifting decisively in the direction of stronger consumer protections. In each of the cases, the ICC’s reduction to the rate hik
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Eric Clapton’s iconic “The Fool” guitar has sold for big bucks at auction. The 1964 Gibson SG electric guitar, which Clapton first played onstage while touring the U.S. with his…
Secretary of State Jay Aschcroft will try again to salvage the ballot summary he wrote for abortion rights initiative petitions with an appeal to the Missouri Supreme Court.
Ashcroft’s language has been savaged in opinions from two courts, most recently when the Western District Court of Appeals ruled his summaries are “replete with politically partisan language.”
In a Thursday interview with The Independent, Ashcroft said notice will be filed with the state’s highest court seeking a review…
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