MISSOURIANA

Considering all the foreign and domestic programs he's currently facing, Bill Clinton must wonder at times why he ever thought he'd like to be president.

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In trying to fill the job of attorney general, President Clinton discovers that filling the nation's top law enforcement job is like trying to find a cop when you need one.

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Sen. Bob Dole insists the White House can find more pork-barrel projects to cut the budget deficit. Like eliminating the federally funded Robert Dole Building at Kansas University.

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With all those baseball players on hand for spring training, the per-capita wealth in the state of Florida just doubled.

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It's difficult to see how Bill Clinton will deliver on his promise to create 500,000 new jobs this year just as Al Gore is assigned the job of reducing the country's biggest payroll.

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Missouri lawmakers are looking around for additional revenue to fund a new school foundation formula. Looks like a luxury Caribbean conference is in the making.

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St. Louis transit system is called wasteful pork barrel spending. St. Louis gets the pork and the taxpayers get the barrel.