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Non-profit org Democrats Work and Wes Clark are teaming up with the program 'Serve with a General'. They will go to one Congressional district and jointly do a community service event. You can help pick the district here. The only one in Kansas and Missouri is for Congressional candidate Kay Barnes. The project would bring Clark to the district to conduct service projects like cleaning parks, working with Habitat for Humanity, and various other needs in the area.

Breaking news... Coal Is Dirty from DeSmogBlog launches to take on the myth of 'clean coal'.

John McCain doesn't have cancer

Affordable housing Jo Co .... uhhh not so much (pdf)... Please, keep all hands, feet, and poor people within the car at all time while passing through .... Thank you, and welcome to Overland Park...

David Sirota does good things with words in a Different Kind of Democracy. Tell me again why he isn't syndicated in the Star?? Anyone??

Elizabeth Edwards talks about cancer with regard to Kennedy and talks about health care


Gallup talks about abortion




The Columbia Daily Tribune Politics Blog writes that U.S. Rep. Ron Paul will be speaking in Branson, either before or during the Missouri Republican Party Convention.

Big Muddy Politics believes that the "greening" of Missouri is a positive trend.

Halliburton contacted Congressional candidate Jared Polis in CO-02. Polis has been sharply critical of the company, and the company's letter calls Halliburton 'an American success story'.