Always One Tragedy Behind

In 1962 I entered, as a kindergartener,  St. Catherine of Sienna School in Pagedale.  A towering three story brick fortress from the late 1920’s,  St. Catherine’s took fire drills very seriously.  Each floor had both early grades (K thru 4) Read More …

What Could Go Right?

His Accidency, Mike Parson, the unelected Governor of Missouri decreed that a special session of the Missouri General Assembly start two days after the General Election. Parson…wants lawmakers to deal with funding for schools, job training, homeless relief, domestic violence Read More …

That Was The Year That Was

By the end of the Fiscal Year, instead of growing by hundreds of millions of dollars the state’s General Revenue came up a net $633,836,284.17 short – 6.62% below the total raised in Fiscal Year 2019.  That’s effectively better than a billion dollar gap.