Missouri Senate Joins House In Approving Student Transfer Bill That Would Boost Charter Schools In Jackson County - Latest News

Missouri House Endorses Student Transfer Bill

(AP) – A proposal to overhaul a Missouri school transfer ... House members limited it to school districts in St. Louis city, St. Louis County and Jackson County and required approval from local voters ... read more

2015 Legislative Session Highlights

The filibuster in the Senate also blocked the passage of House Bill 1066 and Senate Bill 10, bills that would have modernized Missouri ... County, and Jackson County. Only established charter schools ... read more

Uruguay establishes legal marijuana market, further breaking up war on cannabis

Reuters explains: A government-sponsored bill approved by 16-13 votes in the Senate provides for regulation of the cultivation ... right there at the door of the schools, on the street corners. It att... read more

The Latest: Cruz says Obama shouldn't travel to Cuba

Three Republican hopefuls for governor nomination square off, sort of, in Jefferson City. It may be a good thing for the health of residents in St. Louis County that County Executive Steve Stenger is ... read more

Missouri House Passes Plan to Fix Student Transfer Law

(AP) – A plan aimed at fixing issues with Missouri’s flawed student transfer law won final House passage Tuesday, narrowly scraping enough votes to send the bill to the Senate ... New charter schools ... read more

VOX BOX: Reader feedback, October 2009 through February 2010

ijustcouldntkeepquiet on opposition to plans for a charter school in Quincy “They are more than welcome to send their kids to private schools ... Senate votes to pass the measure, and can only count o... read more

Stooges movie films in April – but still no cast, say Farrellys

The upcoming Three Stooges movie is just weeks away from filming and Bobby and Peter Farrelly still haven't found their leading men. "We're shooting at the end of April," Peter told CNN at Wednesday's ... read more

Dancing in the dark: Sarus Festival premiere rained out, rescheduled for tonight

Andrea Trombetta is a performance artist and fabric sculptor performing in this weekend’s Sarus Festival for Site-Specific and Experimental Art, a festival of dance, music, and visual art prepared for ... read more

82 percent say U.S. ‘losing’ War on Drugs

Eighty-two percent of Americans believe the government is “losing” its four-decade-old “War on Drugs” according to a Rasmussen Reports poll released on Sunday. The poll, which normally carries a conse... read more

Our disconcerting certainty in battling terrorism

Common sense would also suggest that many of the possible responses could have the opposite to intended effect, that despite the instinct to flinch back from Muslim Australia with fists clenched, a cl... read more

Can Democracy Withstand The Power of Big Money?

This week on the JOURNAL, Bill Moyers spoke with libertarian journalist Nick Gillespie and progressive legal scholar Lawrence Lessig about the impact of last month's controversial Supreme Court ruling ... read more

Daily Kos Elections Live Digest: 6/20

Ellis says that the group's efforts to boost state Sen ... Quinnipiac has some job approval numbers for Dem Sen. Bill Nelson (47-32, up from 44-35 in May), but their full head-to-heads in this year's ... read more