The Columbia Heart Beat

COLUMBIA, Mo 3/24/19 (Beat Byte) -- Columbia Mayoral candidate Chris Kelly started his campaign with an astonishing  deception. 

The career state legislator and circuit court judge deleted thousands of his Tweets dating back nearly a decade . 
 
Mr. Kelly's Twitter habit @repckelly is notorious in Missouri state politics.  So it took little foresight to save a few dozen when he first made noise about running for Mayor to restore city money for a new sewer called the "Henderson Branch" to millionaire Larry Potterfield's Midway arms facility . 

No Twitter retrospective would be complete without responses, expressing horror, bemusement, and  voyeuristic glee, egging on what one legislative...

COLUMBIA, Mo 3/17/19 (Beat Byte) -- The University of Missouri School of Law excused Columbia Mayoral candidate Chris Kelly from admissions and attendance requirements when he was a Missouri State Representative and his wife, Federal Judge Nanette Laughrey , taught at the school. 

School officials waived the requirement Mr. Kelly -- a Mizzou law school alum and former Boone County Judge -- take the Law School Admissions Test (LSAT) . He was the only student for whom the exception was made in 1985, Terry Ganey of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported at the time.  

The law school also allowed Mr. Kelly to attend classes part time , "although the school's policy requires students to tak...