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- Gulls, Herring (Missouri Botanical Garden)
Provides a drawing and a description. 12-04
- -08-04-10 Missouri Voters Reject Portion of Health Reform Bill (ABC News)
"Voters in Missouri’s primary weighed in Tuesday on one of the most contentious aspects of the new health reform law – whether the government has the ability to force its citizens to purchase health insurance or pay a fine/tax." 08-10
- -Recommended Literature (University of Missouri)
"This resource is a compilation of booklist web sites for elementary school students. The lists were compiled by teachers, librarians, and students. Some of the lists are divided by grade level, readability, or genre. There are also links to eThemes resources on various literature awards and literature genres." 10-10
- -02-07-12 Santorum Wins in Minnesota and Missouri (New York Times)
"His candidacy all but dismissed just days ago, Rick Santorum won the Minnesota caucuses and a nonbinding primary in Missouri on Tuesday, raising fresh questions about Mitt Romney’s ability to corral conservative support."
"Mr. Santorum was also running strongly in Colorado, a state Mr. Romney captured four years before." 02-12
- Missouri (Weber Publications)
Includes a great deal of basic information, such as geography, legislature, flag, motto, bird, flower, motto, nickname, and so forth. Also has a link to the state capital, Jefferson City. Sometimes visitors misspell as Misuri or Misouri. 10-00
- -Missouri Tries a Different Approach to Juvenile Justice (ABC News)
"Recent reports about abuse of juvenile inmates have renewed calls for a national overhaul of a juvenile justice system that includes nearly 100,000 children."
"In Missouri, a different method for juvenile detention has seen surprisingly successful results, trading in the orange uniforms and cell blocks for therapists and dorm rooms." 09-09
- 01-16-04 Dean and Gephardt Pull Negative Ads (USA Today)
"Democratic presidential rivals Howard Dean and Dick Gephardt declared a truce in their air war Friday, pulling negative ads from Iowa television in the closing days of a remarkably tight caucus race."
"The stakes are highest for Gephardt, who won the 1988 caucuses by four percentage points — a landslide in comparison to where the race stood Friday. A defeat would effectively end the Missouri lawmaker's 28-year political career, aides said." 1-04
- Lewis and Clark Expedition - A History (LewisandClark.org)
"On February 28, 1803, the Congress appropriated funds for a small U.S. Army unit to explore the Missouri and Columbia rivers and tell the western Indian tribes that traders would soon come to buy their furs. The explorers were to make a detailed report on western geography, climate, plants and animals, and to study the customs and languages of the Indians. Plans for the expedition were almost complete when the President learned that France offered to sell all of Louisiana Territory to the United States. This transfer, which was completed within a year, doubled the area of the United States. It meant that Jefferson's Army expedition could travel all the way to the crest of the Rockies on American soil, no longer needing permission from the former French owners."
Editor's Note: It could be argued that the French never bought the land and really did not have the moral authority to sell it. The Indigenous people who had been on the land for centuries never sold the land to the French and were still there. What the Americans bought was the agreement for the French to provide no military resistance to Americans as the Americans took the land from the Indigenous people. 01-07
- -09-20-04 Three Kerry - Bush Debates Almost Set (MSNBC News)
"The campaigns of President Bush and Sen. John F. Kerry have tentatively settled on a package of three face-to-face debates that both sides view as a potentially decisive chance to sway huge audiences ahead of the Nov. 2 election, Democrats and Republicans said yesterday."
"The nominees will focus on foreign policy during the opening session, on Sept. 30 in Florida, they will take questions from undecided voters at the town-meeting-style debate Oct. 8 in Missouri, and they will conclude with a session on Oct. 13 in Arizona that will revolve around domestic issues."
"Vice President Cheney and Democratic vice presidential nominee John Edwards will debate Oct. 5 in Ohio. Each of the four debates will begin at 9 p.m. Eastern time and will run 90 minutes." 9-04
- Dred Scott Case (PBS.org)
"In March of 1857, the United States Supreme Court, led by Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, declared that all blacks -- slaves as well as free -- were not and could never become citizens of the United States. The court also declared the 1820 Missouri Compromise unconstitutional, thus permiting slavery in all of the country's territories."
"The case before the court was that of Dred Scott v. Sanford. Dred Scott, a slave who had lived in the free state of Illinois and the free territory of Wisconsin before moving back to the slave state of Missouri, had appealed to the Supreme Court in hopes of being granted his freedom." 8-05
- Landmark Case - Dred Scott v. Sandford (LandmarkCases.org)
"John Sanford argued in this federal lawsuit that Dred Scott could not sue because he was [a slave and] not a citizen. Judge Wells did not accept this argument, but he did instruct the jury to apply only the laws of Missouri in its decision. The jury found in favor of Sanford. Dred Scott then appealed to the Supreme Court of the United States." 01-06
- -10-30-06 Limbaugh's Inaccurate Statements (MSNBC News)
"But the winner, comedian Rush Limbaugh, having buried himself by calling Michael J. Fox a faker in those Missouri campaign ads. Having put up his own headstone by saying the symptoms a Parkinson’s suffer gets when he stops taking his medication include shaking, actually it’s immobility." 10-06
- -11-08-06 Ballot Measure Losses for the Religious Right (MSNBC News)
"From the country's heartland, voters sent messages that altered America's culture wars and dismayed the religious right - defending abortion rights in South Dakota, endorsing stem cell research in Missouri, and, in a national first, rejecting a same-sex marriage ban in Arizona." 11-06
- -11-09-06 The 2006 Elections Were Under Intense Citizen Scrutiny (Christian Science Monitor)
"Intense scrutiny of the process has helped poll workers stay on their toes, say experts."
"This year, a new initiative called 'Video the Vote' enlisted amateurs to film poll irregularities. The idea: to bring attention to voting problems even in elections where the winning margin was large enough that they would normally receive little attention.
'There's so much focus on calling the winners and losers ... that we lose sight of whether the voter was a winner or loser,' says Ian Inaba, one of the leaders of the project that has posted hundreds of interviews at videothevote.org. 'You look at those lines in Denver and Missouri or listen to some of those voters in Maryland or even New Jersey - things were not OK [Tuesday]. There were a lot of frustrated people.' " 11-06
- -12-20-07 Giuliani's Unconventional Strategy (New York Times)
"Mr. Giuliani’s decision to zag while the rest of the candidates zig reflects his unconventional campaign strategy: his team is concentrating on winning the Florida primary on Jan. 29 in the hopes that a victory there will position him to do well on Feb. 5, when more than 20 states, including Missouri, New York, New Jersey and California, go to the polls." 12-07
- Sexualization of Girls in Films (USA Today)
"Female teenage characters were more likely to wear sexy, provocative clothing (40%) than other women — even more than those age 21 to 39 (32%). And the teen girls were as likely to appear partially naked as the older women (30%)."
"Jennifer Stevens Aubrey, a University of Missouri researcher who studies the media's influence on young people and was not involved in this study, says the sexualization of girls is rampant in films, television, music videos and the marketing of clothing to children." 04-11
- Landfill Gas from Trash for Fuel (Sustainablog.org)
"Landfill gas doesn’t get the love of, say, solar or wind power – rotting trash just doesn’t have the sex appeal of a well-designed solar array. It’s an energy source that’s readily available, though, and being utilized in more and more places. That includes right here in St. Louis: local utility Ameren Missouri opened it Maryland Height Renewable Energy Center earlier in the Summer. This small plant is producing enough energy from landfill gas to power 10,000 homes, making it the largest facility of its kind in the state." 09-12
- Specific Recommendations for Five States (Sustainablog.org)
"Despite the availability of clean and sustainable energy sources like solar, wind, hydropower, geothermal and biomass, many states depend on outdated and dirty energy sources. Ohio, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Missouri and Tennessee are among the most in need of an energy portfolio diversification. The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) has identified solutions for these and other states." 09-12
- Climate Change Denier: Competitive Enterprise Institute (Wikipedia.org)
"In March 1992, CEI’s founder Fred Smith said of anthropogenic climate change: 'Most of the indications right now are it looks pretty good. Warmer winters, warmer nights, no effects during the day because of clouding, sounds to me like we’re moving to a more benign planet, more rain, richer, easier productivity to agriculture.' "[10]
"In May 2006, CEI's global warming policy activities attracted attention as it embarked upon an ad campaign with two television commercials [10]. These ads promote carbon dioxide as a positive factor in the environment and argue that global warming is not a concern. One ad focuses on the message that CO2 is misrepresented as a pollutant, stating that 'it’s essential to life. We breathe it out. Plants breathe it in... They call it pollution. We call it life.'[11] The other states that the world's glaciers are 'growing, not melting... getting thicker, not thinner.'[11] It cites Science articles to support its claims. However, the editor for Science stated that the ad 'misrepresents the conclusions of the two cited Science papers... by selective referencing'. The author of the articles, Curt Davis, director of the Center for Geospatial Intelligence at the University of Missouri-Columbia, said CEI was misrepresenting his previous research to inflate their claims. 'These television ads are a deliberate effort to confuse and mislead the public about the global warming debate,' Davis said.[12]" 01-13
- Justice Department Announces Civil Rights Investigation in Ferguson (ABC News)
"U.S. attorney general launches civil rights investigation into fatal shooting in Ferguson, Missouri, by police officer." 04-13
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