MISSOURIANA

An opinion poll reports 96 percent of the American public want improved health care as long as it doesn't cost anything.

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Doctors stage a march on Washington to protest any health care plan that freezes their income. It was the nation's first anti-poverty demonstration by millionaires.

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Gov. Carnahan is having so much difficulty trying to fill vacancies in Jefferson City that he's considering a contract with Rent-A-Helper to keep state government going.

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Blacks in the General Assembly say they won't confirm two Carnahan appointees even though one of them is black. It's a tactic called Saving Face Without a Nose.

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Europe had the 100 Years War, and Missouri has the Battle to Establish an Ethics Commission Sometime In This Century.

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Now there's a move afoot to permit casino gambling on the Lake of the Ozarks, but the legislature would save time if it gave permission to put it in any backyard swimming pool.

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It's the wise citizen who realizes that all the emergencies mentioned during last year's campaign aren't now over. They've only been found to be unsolvable.