COLUMN: Nixon's calls for bipartisanship likely to fall on deaf ears

Thursday, January 21, 2010 | 2:08 p.m. CST; updated 10:41 a.m. CDT, Wednesday, May 12, 2010

I’ve never seen Jay Nixon as jolly as he looked on television Wednesday night. He was relentlessly upbeat as he delivered his State of the State address and sketched his “long-term strategy to create a vibrant future” for a state he characterized as clearly the best-managed, most forward-looking and prettiest in the union.

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