In this morning’s STL Today is a report that Representative Sam Graves of Tarkio in northwest Missouri has introduced a proposal to cut the Missouri River Recovery Program funding by $21 million from $71 million to $50 million.

The clear sparkling water in hotel pitchers on the Army Corps of Engineers panel table and the visitor’s refreshment sidebar was Missouri River water, very different from the flooding, muddy reality just a few miles to the west.
Approximately 70 people attended the St. Louis Missouri River Authorized Purposes Study (MRAPS) public meeting in Maryland [...]