Only Fox 2 News and Show Me Progress Cover Union Rally

Yesterday, 300 union supporters rallied in St. Louis as part of nationwide "We Are One" events marking the anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., who was shot while in Memphis supporting sanitation workers trying to form a union. From what I heard, only Fox 2 News (with Charles Jaco) and progressive blog Show Me Progress covered the event. Here's the Fox 2 video:

The Post-Dispatch had articles from national organizations, and provided no coverage of the local events.

Jake Zimmerman on Jaco Report: Chip Wood Refuses to Appear!

Democratic candidate for County Assessor Jake Zimmerman was a guest yesterday on the Election Edition of the Jaco Report. His opponent Chip Wood bizarrely refused to appear!

You can watch the report here:

Consequences of Republicans Blocking Unemployment Benefits Are Worse Than We Thought

Recall that Todd Akin, Roy Blunt, Jo Ann Emerson, Sam Graves and Blaine Luetkemeyer all voted to block unemployment benefit extensions. Republicans in the Senate are similarly preventing passage.

And now it turns out that the consequences are worse than we expected. And we already thought it was pretty bad. Kudos to Fox 2 News for being all over this story, and particularly Charles Jaco:

 

And previous reporting on the subject:

 

Missouri Republicans Vote To Block Unemployment Extensions

As reported by FiredUp, Missouri Republican Congressmen Blunt, Akin, Emerson, Graves, and Luetkemeyer all voted against extending unemployment benefits at a time when unemployment is near 10%. So did John Shimkus in Illinois.

Charles Jaco of KTVI had a nice report showing one of the 40,000+ Missourians affected by this absurd and heartless political posturing:



Note to people who want to post angry comments without bothering to know what they're talking about: this is a vote that required a 2/3rds majority. So yes, Republicans blocked it. Try reading next time.