Races in Missouri

First of all, I’m annoyed. Maybe I’m just dumb, but I figured that when I changed my address at the DMV (where I was originally registered to vote) my voter’s registration would also be updated. Unfortunately, you have to re-register moving from St. Louis city to St. Louis county. So I was [...]

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Tobler E-mail

[Randy Tobler is on 97.1 FM here in St. Louis. He is a doctor (physician, I think) and he is saying that the embryos produced by Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer technology are substantially different than embryos produced by sperm and egg in a woman's womb. (The weakness of his argument is illustrated by [...]

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More on Stem Cells in Missouri

Obviously, this poll [see about two-thirds down on the right] cannot bear the pressure of extrapolating to the outcome on November 8, but the numbers are still striking: 68% to 30% in favor of the stem cell initiative (which, it cannot be stressed often enough to fence-sitters, is an amendment to the Missouri state Constitution). [...]

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