We’re getting lots of cards and letters on Amendment 3. Writers are angry that voters will accidentally pass this “Dirty Missouri” to replace “Clean Missouri.”
Donald Trump recently said, “I love the ladies.” I think this has something to do with a Supreme Court nomination.
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On Oct. 3, Dwight R. Bitikofer and I will be inducted into the Hall of Fame. Never in my wildest dreams could I ever have imagined myself finding a place alongside the likes of Dizzy Dean, Joe…
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Mark and Pat McCloskey made their first appearance in St. Louis court this week after being charged with brandishing a Model 38 handgun and an AR-15 at demonstrators who passed the couple’s …
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Some residents received a mailer earlier this month on how to be an informed voter. This campaign piece had President Trump and the Pope on its cover — and was targeted to Catholics.
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Somebody needs to tell Gov. Mike Parson to put his helmet back on. Our good old boy from Bolivar, Missouri, has obviously been taking some pretty good hits to the noggin’ lately.
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Kirkwood’s Claire McCaskill may be retired from the U.S. Senate, but she’s hardly checked out from politics. Last week she unleashed some sharp cable TV commentary aimed at Gov. Mike Parson fo…
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Most of us have friends and relatives who swear by some very outlandish conspiracy theories. Some believe in a Deep State and in the QAnon beliefs that Congress is controlled by Satanist sex-t…
Back in the pre-pandemic days when students met in classrooms, I used to teach a media law class in the Sverdrup Center at Webster University. After every class, I would pass by a wall photo o…
President Trump said last week that George Floyd was looking down from heaven and smiling over a rebounding economy. The self-described “cheerleader-in-chief” said the pandemic crisis is reced…
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Everyone has a little something to gripe about after the state legislature closed its abbreviated session on May 15. The COVID-19 crisis took a six-week chunk out of the 2020 session.
"I used to spin that toilet paper like I was on Wheel of Fortune. Now I turn it like I’m cracking a safe.” Several readers sent this piece of humor to us about a month ago. Unfortunately, it’s…
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The word “global” used to have a certain cachet. There was prestige in visiting or studying in world capitals: London, Vienna, Singapore or Beijing.
The coronavirus pandemic has wreaked havoc on all the events and environmental meetings scheduled for Spring 2020. Earth Day in Forest Park has gone virtual. The annual Sustainable Backyard To…
State Rep. Deb Lavender, D-Kirkwood, is among a growing chorus of state and national politicians calling for a vote-by-mail option for our democracy. She says exercising the right to vote shou…
