Soldiers Memorial on the campus of Lincoln University honors the men of the 62nd and 65th Colored Infantries who founded the institution in Jefferson City after they fought in the Civil War. There is no money in the proposed budget bills for the 2017-18 state business year – introduced in the Missouri House last week – designated for Lincoln University to match available federal funds for LU’s land grant program.
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Democrats edgy amid an outcry over town halls
Senator Charles Schumer answers questions from members of the media at Hudson Valley Community College on Thursday, Feb. 23, 2017, in Troy, N.Y. Senator Charles Schumer answers questions from members of the media at Hudson Valley Community College on Thursday, Feb. 23, 2017, in Troy, N.Y. FILE – In this Jan. 19, 2017 file photo, Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo. speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington.
The U.S. Rejected Refugee Anne Frank – Let’s Not Make the Same Mistake Again
Anne Frank would be 87 years old had she not perished in Bergen-Belsen, a Nazi concentration camp in Germany. What words of wisdom might she offer the Trump administration as it crafts its latest iteration of its Muslim and refugee ban? Anne Frank is known for her famous diary, written while she and her family hid from the Gestapo in a “secret annex” of a house in Amsterdam from 1942 to 1944.
The Trump-Reagan parallels
The media laugh at any attempt to compare President Trump with former President Ronald Reagan, but there are many similarities, not the least of which are the withering attacks both men endured while running for and as president. The extraordinary assaults by media, celebrities and jealous politicians against Mr. Trump have been unending.
Michigan Republicans are on a mission to de-fund Planned Parenthood
Planned Parenthood helped me prevent an abortion when I was able to access “the morning after pill” after a birth control failure. Despite that-and a law barring federal funding of abortion-Planned Parenthood remains a target of conservatives in Congress.
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The Left is getting massively out-Alinskyed, and the hilarious thing is that this band of withered hippies, unemployable millennial safe-space cases, and unlovable + unshaven libfeminists don’t even know it. Oh, their masters sure know it.
Gov. to sign bill making Missouri 28th right-to-work state
Republican Gov. Eric Greitens is signing a bill to make Missouri the 28th rights-to-work state on Monday, delivering a big win for primarily GOP supporters who have worked for years to pass the measure banning mandatory union fees and dues. The bill signing in Missouri comes amid a national push to implement the policy.
Outside groups set tactics to put Trump pick on Supreme Court
Conservative groups are finalizing their strategy for a multimillion-dollar campaign to help get President Trump ‘s Supreme Court nominee confirmed. The Judicial Crisis Network is spearheading the effort with plans to spend $10 million on what the groups have dubbed “the most robust operation in the history of confirmation battles.”
Ferguson missed deadlines in deal with Justice Department
Clark Ervin, a Washington lawyer monitoring the consent decree involving the St. Louis suburb, told The Associated Press that Ferguson has missed some 120- and 180-day deadlines in crafting new policies and procedures on basic policing practices.
Trump could revive Missouri proposal on deported immigrants
As President Donald Trump rolls out plans to build a wall on the Mexican border and considers blocking refugees, Missouri lawmakers are trying again to pass a bill aimed at cracking down on deported immigrants who come back and commit crimes. Under the proposal pitched Thursday by Republican Sen. Mike Cunningham, immigrants who are deported but come back and commit any assault or felony offense would face up to 10 years in prison for “illegal re-entry.”
Missouri split on longer terms in attacks on police
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Gov. Eric Greitens is pushing to toughen Missouri’s already stiff penalties for attacking a police officer, pleasing many in Missouri’s law enforcement community, which has been on the defensive since a white police officer killed an unarmed black 18-year-old in Ferguson more than two years ago.
Today in History
On Jan. 23, 1933, the 20th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, the so-called “Lame Duck Amendment,” was ratified as Missouri approved it. In 1516, King Ferdinand II of Aragon, who with his late queen consort, Isabella of Castile, sponsored the first voyage of Christopher Columbus in 1492, died in Madrigalejo, Spain.
Bill on tallying up regulation costs wins U.S. financial industry backing
Financial lobbyists on Tuesday applauded a bill in the U.S. House of Representatives that would require the Securities and Exchange Commission to review the costs of rules before putting them into force, which is part of a broader push from Republicans to reform regulation. The legislation, introduced by Missouri Republican Ann Wagner, the newly minted chair of the financial services oversight subcommittee, is expected to go to the floor of the House on Thursday for a vote.
Former Navy SEAL Greitens to be Missouri’s next governor
Eric Greitens has been many things in his 42 years, including a Navy SEAL officer, Rhodes scholar, White House fellow, charity founder, best-selling author and inspirational speaker. On Monday, he’ll begin his new life as a public servant when he is sworn in as Missouri’s 56th governor during a ceremony in front of the Capitol building.
A lawmaker’s solution for marriage debate: Remove the state
A Missouri Republican saw last year’s debate over a proposed constitutional amendment that would have protected businesses that deny services to same-sex couples bring lawmakers to tears and grind legislative work to a halt. His potential solution: Take state government out of marriage completely.
States face off over Clean Power Plan
Two weeks after officials in two dozen states asked Republican President-elect Donald Trump to kill one of Democratic President Barack Obama’s signature plans to curb global warming, another group of state officials is urging Trump to save it. Democratic attorneys general in 15 states plus four cities and counties sent a letter to Trump asking him to preserve Obama’s Clean Power Plan, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, the lead author, announced Thursday.
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The W.K. Kellogg Foundation gave nearly two million dollars to the John Podesta-founded Center for American Progress and a closely affiliated organization called Washington Center for Equitable Growth that also lists John Podesta as a founder. The W.K. Kellogg Foundation is the namesake nonprofit arm of the Kellogg Company, which weeks ago pulled advertising from Breitbart News, declaring in an official statement that Breitbart is not “aligned with our values as a company.”
Republicans to target unions, expand school choice in states
Republicans are poised to use their newly attained capitol dominance to make Missouri the 27th right-to-work state prohibiting mandatory union fees. That is unless Kentucky’s recently crowned GOP majorities can beat them to it.
Appeals court: College’s drug tests of all students illegal
A federal appeals court on Thursday reinstated a judge’s 2013 ruling that a central Missouri technical college’s mandatory drug testing policy is unconstitutional when applied to all students. The full 8th U.S. District Court of Appeals, in a 9-2 ruling, sided with the American Civil Liberties Union in reversing an earlier decision by a three-judge panel of the same St. Louis-based court.
As Electoral College vote nears, GOP electors are deluged with pleas to bolt from Donald Trump
His work computer holds 70,000 recent emails from across the country. Hundreds of written letters clog his mailbox.