I drove 80 miles round-trip today with a friend to visit a plant nursery many people rave about.
I found only one native plant in the entire place (my friend said she also saw swamp milkweed), and I was horrified to find them selling Winter Creeper and Burning Bush, both of which are on the list of Top Invasive Plants in Missouri. Not to mention the fact that the Burning Bush look pretty pathetic for the price they are charging.
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Race and racism are inescapable in this country, unfortunately. Living in Kansas City, a couple years ago I heard this story on our local #NPR station about the man who invented #CashewChicken. He was an #Immigrant from #China who fought during #WW2 in the #USArmy & faced literal #terrorism when he opened a restaurant in #Springfield#Missouri. Not a #War correspondent from #Canada, but interesting nonetheless.
BFD in #Missouri: GOP tried to rush a constitutional change to crack down on future ballot initiatives. Anticipated an #abortion rights measure this fall.
One of my favorite road signs in all of Missouri, seen heading west on Interstate 70 in St. Charles County.
I very seldom drive there, but when I do, I love to startle the rest of my family by saying "Look everyone, we're coming up to Bryan ..." then screaming "ROAD!" at the top of my lungs.
I'm not sure why they decided to make "ROAD" uppercase, but I am forever grateful.
"The students also reached out to local businesses, three of which agreed to a plan: They’d keep a box of the pills in their bathroom at all times for anyone to get. They could walk out of the bathroom with a small, brown-paper package, as anonymous as a box of menstrual pads."
It’s hard work to get ballot measures going and especially hard in a state controlled by Republicans. The organizers doing this are trying as hard as they can to protect the right to an abortion.
Jess Piper reports – from the ground in rural Missouri and Arkansas – about how, since it knows it cannot win fair and square, the Republican party is resorting to tricks, subterfuge, and outright lies to try to impose its minority position on abortion on the majority who believe that abortion should not be made illegal.
She recently went to a Democratic rally in Arkansas, and encountered a woman handing out cards with QR code.
History professor Steve Tamari is out of the hospital after #police seriously injured him at the Washington University student #protest. According to his wife, he will need surgery on his hand, and he is in pain from nine broken ribs. #Missouri#freepalestine
A collection of far-right #Missouri senators is putting the health of millions of Missourians at risk by engaging in a pointless #filibuster. The group is demanding that the governor sign a bill to prohibit #PlannedParenthood from receiving any #Medicaid reimbursements, and lawmakers must pass a bill that would make it harder for Missourians to change the #constitution. These people are despicable and the Missouri voters should vote them out.