Here's the press release:

The Public Service Commission has hired former Slay press-person Ed Rhode on a "part-time, and temporary" basis to help with "extended outreach to the media and to the public."

Super-aide Kit Crancer has moved from the office of Sen. Jim Lembke to the office of Sen. Jane Cunningham.

Skelton, Stouffer, Emerson, Moore and Goodman so far.

Congress – District 4

Senate

The New York Times had a recent article on the costs of autism treatment.  It cited a study by the Harvard School of Public Health which says that treatment can cost $67,000 even for those at the lower end of the autism spectrum.

City Dems linking Blunt and Abramoff.

According to Bloomberg a chalk drawing by Raphael was the most expensive piece of art bought last year.  It sold for a cool $47.5 million to a dude named Leon Black.  Black runs the Apollo Management, the private equity firm which owns aluminum N

Almost every year in the Missouri legislature there’s a telecom regulation bill up for debate.  The legislature is constantly playing catch-up to the rapidly changing industry.  This year’s battle is the same as last year, when an effort to lower access fee was stalled to death in the Missouri Senate.