This area lacks retail office space. Right now the choice people have for their businesses is St. Louis or Washington. Why not let them fill in here.

We want to serve the business needs of a smaller town. We expect something like an attorney's office, insurance office or dry cleaners drop-off location.

It is built along what used to be a railroad. The Missouri Pacific used to run right along Front Street.

Many an American Congressman comes to Washington from a district attorney's office: you may be sure that he is seldom promoted because he has been jealous of the liberties of the citizen

Our office has acknowledged the governor's request, and we are preparing the material to be sent down to Washington, D.C..

[But veteran lawmakers torn apart by PTSD don't have a choice about being Exhibit A in the case against Washington politics.] When you see what can happen to a page or a junior congressman, it passes on in a very real way, not in a history-class sense, that reality of what political power really is, ... Who are we to impose this emotional albatross on public servants? As a nation, we pretend to elect our leaders. It seems unjust to make them a special class to suffer for our sins over wrongheaded laws, or pay a continuing emotional price for securing their future careers.