This Week in Blogging, Oct. 3
National Journal’s The Hotline outlined the Democratic and Republican playbooks on the Mark Foley scandal. As you can imagine, Wonkette has plenty to say (and snicker about) on the issue.
FiredUpMissouri.com read the fine print of a Blunt administration press release touting unemployment numbers.
Randy Turner was the first to show the campaign contributions of disgraced Rep. Mark Foley to Gov. Matt Blunt’s campaign. Blunt announced yesterday that he was donating the money to Boys and Girls Town of Missouri.
Jeff Roe disliked the comments from Secretary of State Robin Carnahan’s office, which downplayed the importance of the Montee Law Firm’s administrative dissolution.
Missouri native Katie Favazza attended a bloggers-only meeting with Sen. Rick Santorum last week.
Tony’s Kansas City hopes that everyone who voted for the stadium tax feels like a sucker after the recent ticket surcharge increase.
PubDef wants to know: where’s the black community’s rightful share of the stem cell money?
Tony Messenger tells us that in addition to other changes to the editorial page, he’s introducing a letters to the editor blog at the Springfield News-Leader. Making more letters available online makes everyone happy; Internet visitors looking for more and varied opinions get what they’re looking for, and the types of people who constantly complain that the paper doesn’t print their letters often enough get to see their name on the paper’s website.
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