Hot Monday Headlines: Monday, May 24
Submitted by .Sean on May 24, 2010 - 7:49am
It sure feels like summer now! The top headlines this morning:
- AP Analysis: Once a critic, Nixon now cutter-in-chief
- Missouri's governor feels the squeeze as state budget continues to tighten
- Nixon tries to reignite economic development effort
- Anti-incumbent wave is really more like ripples
- Sandra Day O’Connor Op-Ed: Take Justice Off the Ballot
- Joe The Plumber is allegedly not a whore, but he is worried about all the "empty seats" at his rallies
- Editorial: Voters need to know consequences of earnings tax ban [Post-Dispatch]
- Humphreys nears half a million in contributions to Show Me Better Courts
State Budget
- AP Analysis: Once a critic, Nixon now cutter-in-chief [AP
- Missouri's governor feels the squeeze as state budget continues to tighten [Star]
- House budget chair supports withholdings, budget restraint [News Tribune]
- He doesn’t care for the conclusion, but backs the action [Missourinet]
- Cash-strapped districts cutting summer school [AP]
- Parents as Teachers faces funding crunch [Suburban Journals]
Jobs
- Jay Nixon tries to reignite economic development effort [Post-Dispatch]
- Nixon appoints advisory board to come up with 5-year jobs plan [Post-Dispatch]
- Nixon launches plans to devise statewide economic development strategy [Star]
- Higher education gets boost from bad job market [Post-Dispatch]
Non-Partisan Courts
- Sandra Day O’Connor Op-Ed: Take Justice Off the Ballot [NYT]
In too many states, citizens are being shortchanged by the way these judges are chosen.
US Senate Race
- Anti-incumbent wave is really more like ripples [Star]
Democrat Robin Carnahan faces Republican Roy Blunt in the marquee race for U.S. Senate in Missouri. Blunt is the ultimate insider, but Carnahan — by virtue of her last name — comes with the word “establishment” firmly attached. Democrats keep hoping that Blunt’s main primary challenger, state Sen. Chuck Purgason, gets hot and embarrasses Blunt. Purgason fits the anti-establishment, anti-incumbent mold perfectly. - Missouri's U.S. Senate candidates tangle over Big Banks, Big Oil [Beacon]
State Auditor's Race
- ‘The Plumber’ to Joplin: All the empty seats – ‘thats a problem’ [The Fuse Joplin]
- Joe the Plumber: Backs Icet for his belief, not his bucks [Beacon]
- Joe the Plumber: “…I’m not a whore, brother, you understand that?” [The Fuse Joplin]
- Auditor candidate calls in the plumber [KMOX]
- 'Joe the Plumber' stumps for state auditor candidate [Globe]
St. Louis County Executive Race
Wall Street Reform
- Editorial: Financial regulation: a sort of major win [Post-Dispatch]
The bill is the most assertive reform of the banking and financial industry since the New Deal. It reforms banking practices. It gives government regulators broad powers to monitor systemic risk to the financial system and wind down troubled financial firms without taxpayer bailouts. It creates a Consumer Financial Protection Agency to police the credit card, auto loan and mortgage industries.
Ballot Initiatives
- Editorial: Voters need to know consequences of earnings tax ban [Post-Dispatch]
- Humphreys nears half a million in contributions to Show Me Better Courts [Turner Report]
