Obama tix $25; Robin Carnahan; Stem Cells; Blunt's Low Grade

Tickets to go see Barack Obama in St. Louis on Friday are now $25! We have a very limited number of seats available, so email Aaron Keyak right away if you would like to go.

Our thoughts and prayers go out tonight to Missouri Secretary of State Robin Carnahan, who yesterday announced that she has breast cancer. With any luck, she will win the fight against this disease.

St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay has come out in favor of the pro-stem cell initiative. Slay stated,

The ballot measure is a modest one. Far from breaking any new ground, it simply asks that the state of Missouri not make its statutes regulating stem cell research more stringent than the federal laws on the same subject. Adopting more restrictive laws, argues the bi-partisan coalition, would put the state at an economic disadvantage – and would kill the important life science research of university centers in St. Louis and Kansas City.

Also, the NEA gave Gov. Blunt a "D" on his education policies. Ironically, the reason for the grade was, and I kid you not, Blunt's "65% Plan."