Former Enviro Lobbyist Sells Out

Friday, January 23rd, 2009

Groups trying to pave the way for a second AmerenUE nuclear plant in Missouri have a new weapon in Jefferson City — a top lobbyist for environmentalists.

Irl L. Scissors, who previously represented a leading Missouri environmental and conservation alliance, last week announced in an e-mail to leaders of that group he was going to work to help undo the law that prohibits utilities from charging customers for power plants under construction.  Click here to read the full St. Louis Post-Dispatch story.

There’s No Such Thing as a Free Lunch…and other Words of Wisdom and Warning

Wednesday, July 11th, 2007

Carnahan warns investors of ‘Top 10 Threats’

By Jerri Stroud

ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH

07/11/2007

A free lunch or dinner could cost an investor his life savings — if the investor buys into a risky scheme being promoted by an unscrupulous investment adviser, Secretary of State Robin Carnahan warned this week.

Carnahan rated dinner meetings used to promote such schemes at the top of her list of threats to Missouri investors this year. Coincidentally, Carnahan’s list arrived at a reporter’s house in the same batch of mail with one of those dinner invitations.

To read the rest of Carnahan’s list and the complete St. Louis Post-Dispatch story, click here.