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The Blog
Here you will find a surgical analysis of political news and the governmental process.
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Why Missouri Should Not Expand Medicaid: Part 1
Headlines The Headline of the Rolla Daily News this Friday March 1 could have read " Legislature's Actions Could Harm Hospital, and Save Citizens & Children From Mountain of Debt". However, the second part of the headline did not appear, just the pa
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No To The Insurance Exchanges and Medicaid Expansion
I am just back from a meeting in Florida regarding the need for Medicaid reforms. The "Medicaid Cure" Summit was attended by more than 20 state legislators and as many repressentatives of think tank organizations across the country. Notably among t
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Boys State: How a Thousand Teenage Males Running a Government is Not as Scary as it Sounds
I recently had the honor of spending one week at Missouri Boys State. I’m sure there are some former Boys Staters reading this, but for those of you who don’t know exactly what it is, it’s a huge political simulation. Everything you’d e
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Questionable Practices in Candidate Questionnaires
1As a candidate for office, I get quite a few Candidate Questionnaires from various groups that want to know what my positions are on the issues of the day to help determine whether they will endorse me or not. What is interesting to me as an elected official is what I can learn from these questionnaires. Some of the Candidate Questionnaires are pretty simple and straight forward, but some seem less like a questionnaire and more like an employment contract.