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Public Service Award goes to Sen. Blunt By The Examiner staff U.S. Sen. Roy Blunt of Missouri is this year’s recipient of the Harry S. Truman Public Service Award, presented by the city of Independence.  Blunt is to be honored at an in-person ceremony to be announced later. Last year’s recipient, former Sen. Claire McCaskill, accepted the award in a virtual event.  The Public Service Award, established in 1974, is presented annually to an American citizen with President Truman’s qualities of dedication, industry, ability, honesty and integrity.  Independence Mayor Eileen Weir sa...

Ken Oerter still remembers the day he fell ill with the mysterious sickness that was rampaging across the country, killing children and forcing families to isolate in their homes. He grew dizzy and weak just before he passed out on the playground of his country school near Reynolds in September 1945. Eight-year-old Ken was eventually loaded into the family car and driven over bumpy back roads to a hospital in Omaha where his parents received the grim news: he had polio, an incurable disease known to cause paralysis or even death. For Oerter, now 83, and others of his generation, the ongoing C...

Font Size Saturday's CBS Evening News devoted its “Weekend Journal” segment to, as anchor Russ Mitchell explained, “the Senate veteran who is known far and wide as 'Saint Jack.'" Bill Whitaker proceeded to relay, without any competing voices, the anti-Christian Right enmity of former moderate, at best, Missouri Republican Senator Jack Danforth who is on a crusade to rid the Republican Party of the influence of Christian conservatives. Whitaker began with a clip of Danforth declaring: "I am concerned about the Republican Party becoming, in essence, the party of the Christi...

POLITICO Hawley hauls in $3M after attempt to block election results The Missouri senator collected more than 10 times what some of his colleagues have raised at a similar point in their terms. Sen. Josh Hawley drew widespread attention for leading the Jan. 6 effort to block the acceptance of the Electoral College results. | Graeme Jennings-Pool/Getty Images Link Copied Sen. Josh Hawley raised more than $3 million during the first three months of the year, underscoring how the Missouri Republican converted his high-profile opposition to the certification of the 2020 election into big fundrais...

Pool Getty Images North America Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., speaks during the confirmation hearing for Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett at the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, Oct. 12, 2020. (Win McNamee/Pool via AP) Republican Sen. Josh Hawley is divisive. Maybe nowhere more so than in his hometown, Lexington, Missouri. Josh Hawley sets himself up as an antidote to “cosmopolitan elites,” who he says are ruining America. Hawley draws his rural credibility from growing up in Lexington, a historic town of about 4,500 people on the Missouri River. But Haw...