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Mayor Slay suggests that we start aggressively recruiting younger poll workers. He also provides St. Louisans with an alternative take (via New York Times coverage) on the local economy that differs from the picture the St. Louis Post-Dispatch presented.

Katie Favazza critiques George Will’s critique of Missouri’s U.S. Senate candidates and the stem cell issue. Tim Hilton weighed in on the Will column as well.

Jaime Allman focuses his attention on national lefty lunacy this week.

Matthew at the Arch City Chronicle took a look at the St. Louis Public Schools’ MAP scores and how they may cost the district its accreditation. Randy Turner of The Turner Report gives us a teacher’s perspective on the Springfield and Joplin MAP numbers.

PubDef.net taps the Dems a little in the Sunday Funnies.

Jeff Roe doesn’t like the fact that Emanuel Cleaver visited Turkey during the August recess. According to Roe, “The Source is currently investigating the terrorist ties of the ‘Muslim clerics’ with which Cleaver met.”

Roy Temple’s YouTube page has a video of a PBS segment on the stem cell issue and the Jim Talent - Claire McCaskill race.

And of course, your cup will runneth over with the daily posts at CDT Politics Blog, KY3 Blog, KC Buzz Blog, and P-D Political Fix.

Finally, many of you Dems on the western side of the state know Jason Kander, who is currently preparing to serve in Afghanistan. You can keep up with his activities here. Dems will enjoy reading about their friend, and Republicans will appreciate the references to firearms.

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Those of you who do not work for the government probably spend less than 40 hours/week reading Missouri political blogs. So I took the liberty of reading them for you.

With apologies to the late Mel Allen, here’s This Week in Blogging:

MayorSlay.com has a new look. Is Slay the only elected official in Missouri to blog? I think so. (1)

Katie Favazza is promoting a project to pay tribute to the 2,996 victims of the Sept. 11 attacks.

Jeff Roe was the first to report that Todd Smith (2) was resigning from the Missouri House.

Roy Temple + YouTube = bad news. Don’t say I didn’t tell you.

Tony Messenger is on the panel for the Talent-McCaskill debate in Springfield. He wants your suggestions for questions to ask the candidates.

Dave Drebes graciously provided you non-St. Louisans with the latest copy of the Arch City Chronicle. Dave’s site also took a closer look at the results of the Jeff Smith victory in a two-part post.

ArchPundit doesn’t think All Children Matter spent their money very wisely in the primaries.

Tim Hilton gave his opinion on the Willie Nelson-Claire McCaskill silliness. I think we’re on the same page.

Randy Turner found an update on former state Sen. Marvin Singleton.

And of course, too much good stuff to list from the P-D Political Fix, KC Buzz Blog, CDT Politics Blog, and the KY3 Blog.

(1) Press releases posted to a campaign website do not count as a candidate blog.

(2) No relation to the other Republican Todd Smith.

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