Federal Budget

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, April 10, 2012 - WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama called it “a Trojan Horse” that hides an…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Feb. 14, 2012 - WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama's election-year budget-- which calls for more…

On Saturday, the President signed into law the consolidated fiscal year (FY) 2012 appropriations bill, which provides funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB). For listeners and friends of St. Louis Public Radio, this is very good news because it means that Congress has provided important two-year advance funding for public radio and television totaling $445 million for Fiscal Year 2014.

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Nov. 9, 2011 - This summer, after much hemming and hawing, Congress passed and the president signed…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Nov. 9, 2011 - Media pundits have criticized the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement for its…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Oct. 5, 2011 - This summer, Americans witnessed the political theater of Congress and the president…

The draft for the House Appropriations Committee’s fiscal 2012 Labor, Health and Human Services bill, introduced Thursday (Sept. 29) by the subcommittee chairman Denny Rehburg (R-Mont.), would prohibit the Corporation for Public Broadcasting from funding NPR

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, June 15, 2011 - Growing up in a small town in southeast Missouri, life often felt painfully slow.…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, June 2, 2011 - For most, school's out for the summer. Let's celebrate that felicitous development…

Missouri's Republican U.S. Senate primary is only one day old, and Sarah Steelman already is criticizing Todd Akin over federal spending…