John Marsh

Those THC gummies will stay on the convenience store shelves a little longer. Governor Parson asked the Secretary of State to sign off on an emergency order to pull the products to keep them away from kids. But Jay Ashcroft told Parson ‘no’ …

One century ago, F. Scott Fitzgerald invited us into the lives of the “rotten crowd,” Jazz Age Americans with far more money than morals. In “A Rotten Crowd”: America, Wealth, and One Hundred Years of…

You may have heard about the push to put a ‘Taxpayers Bill of Rights’ on the books in Missouri. The Show Me Institute’s Brenda Talent says, unlike the Hancock Amendment, their plan would limit taxes on personal property like cars and farm equipment …

MU’s loss is Lincoln’s gain. Columbia Police Department is taking their officer training in – house and will partner with Lincoln University’s Law Enforcement Training Academy …

ASHCROFT – DELTA #2 for TUES 3 AUG 2024 JJM The Department of Health and Human Services is now getting some THC edibles off the shelves. The agency said they would begin going after the unregulated products this past weekend. The Governor issued an emergency order to take the…

Losses at Columbia Regional Airport will be about $3.2 million dollars this fiscal year, which ends this month for the city of Columbia. That’s about $1.3 million more than last year. The increasing cost of salaries and wages is being blamed, according to a report today in CoMoBUZ.com. The airport has 10 full-time city employees. About 9,300 passengers boarded an airliner during July. That’s just a few less than in May, which was the busiest month at COU since the pandemic.

The ‘smart money’ says lawmakers won’t push to override Governor Mike Parsons’ vetoes when they return to Jefferson City next week. And the Governor doesn’t have any plans to call legislators in for a Special Session.. Even after the recent battle over his emergency order on unregulated THC products …

You may not be voting on an abortion ballot measure in Missouri in November. Abortion rights supporters are appealing Cole County Circuit Judge Christopher Limbaugh’s Friday ruling that a November abortion ballot measure didn’t comply with state initiative petition requirements. Columbia attorney Jennifer Bukowsky says today (Tues) is the deadline…

Congressman Mark Alford thought the Presidential debate was a ‘set – up job’ against Donald Trump from the get go … The Kansas City area lawmaker references Kamala Harris’ parroting President Biden’s claim that Trump allegedly sided with protesters during the 2017 Charlottesville Virginia riots "spewing anti-Semitic hate." Major media…

Can a book change a landscape? If ever a book did, it was The Great Gatsby . And if The Great Gatsby did, it did so thanks to one of its first and most ambitious readers, the urban planner Robert Moses.