Each year as April 15 approaches, I’m reminded of the phrase, “The only certainties in life are death and taxes.” In the construction industry, however,…
Posts published by “Al Bond”
Al Bond is the Executive Secretary-Treasurer of the St. Louis-Kansas City Carpenters Regional Council, which represents more than 22,000 members in Missouri, Kansas and southern Illinois.
Whether it’s buying a car or choosing where to go for dinner, Missourians like having choices—but when it comes to electricity, Missourians are left with…
There is quite a stir going on at the State Capitol building lately, in both the Missouri House of Representatives and Senate regarding charter school…
Joe Maxwell has weighed in on Missouri values and found large swaths of rural Missouri lacking. Mr. Maxwell is an accomplished and experienced lawyer and…
Last year around this same time, the Missouri legislature took a major step forward for our state when they overwhelmingly passed a new, bipartisan energy…
The Missouri House has passed a bill that would legalize programs already operating in the state that give drug abusers clean needles. Supporters say those…
Last year, four retired military leaders in Missouri wrote a letter to policymakers that stated, “Ensuring young children have a strong start in life can…
7 in 10 clean energy workers are involved in Energy Efficiency Clean energy jobs grew 2.9% in 2018 St. Louis, Jackson, and St. Louis City…
Missouri Cattlemen’s Association clearly proves they lack basic Missouri values and have it all wrong in their “Flipping the Bird to Science” published on this…
With heartbreak, we have watched our friends and neighbors across the states of Iowa, Missouri and Nebraska suffer from the impacts of historic Missouri River…