Missouri Politics Can't Tame Big Muddy

EXCEPTIONAL column on the topic of upcoming flooding threatening to devastate towns across the Show-Me State and the political solutions that never seem to work. Read more:

Messenger: The Missouri River is a 'mad elephant' that won't be tamed by 'bigger and better' levees

Every time Missouri River flood season gets serious, I take out "the box." The sagging and slightly torn sides of the two-foot-long brown, cardboard container hold historic research that author and journalist Bill Lambrecht gathered in his many years writing about the eight-state river basin and its constant political battles over flooding, levees, navigation, agriculture, recreation and the environment.

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  1. Newsflash, levees push the problem further downstream flooding communities that don't have them or can't afford them.

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  2. High levees around casinos worsen flooding for those above and below.
    How many millions have taxpayers paid to protect casinos?

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  3. ^^I don't know. Do the research and don't get back to us. This is boring as fuck.

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  4. More "turbidity".

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  5. i've been to clarksville, beautiful little town, very close to the river and very small 'levees' if those were actually levees.

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