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Stock trading by members of Congress could be banned in bipartisan push

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WASHINGTON — At least 25 bills have been introduced this Congress to further limit lawmakers and their family members from trading individual stocks, and representatives across the aisle renewed pressure Wednesday on U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson to take up the issue. Their contention is members of Congress hold a serious advantage over everyday Americans […]
Ashley Murray

Democratic state election officials ​in letter ​ask if they were ‘misled’ by Trump administration

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A group of Democratic secretaries of state in a letter to top Trump administration officials say they’re concerned the administration misled them about how it would use voter data collected from their states. The letter, dated Tuesday, is addressed to Pam Bondi, the U.S. attorney general, and Kristi Noem, secretary of the U.S. Department of […]
Quentin Young

Thursday, Nov. 20 - Who won the Boeing strike?

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St. Louis Boeing machinists returned to work this week after reaching a settlement with the company. They had been on strike since August 4. STLPR’s Olivia Mizelle followed the strike for months, and has this report on its settlement and the after-effects.

Abolish Missouri’s income tax?  Find the man behind the tree

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Governor, governor:   don’t tax me,  tax the man behind the tree. Gov. Mike Kehoe’s recent announcement that he wants to eliminate the Missouri’s income tax causes me to paraphrase this old poem, used often by the late U.S. Sen. Russell Long, longtime chair (1966-1981) of the Senate Finance Committee, when considering proposals for whatever was […]
Michael A. Wolff