A year ago I began getting phone calls and emails about Gov. Eric Greitens, who resigned in disgrace for various categories of corruption – some of which have been hidden from us to this day.
Missouri legislators say we made a big mistake when we passed Amendment 1 last fall. What the heck were we thinking when we voted for tougher ethics laws, more transparency in government and m…
Ahh, spring! Easter lilies come to life. Forsythia flourishes. Daffodils disseminate. As tulips bud, sunlight sticks around longer. Even some post offices stay open longer on a mid-April day.
I have a friend who left Kirkwood for the joys of nature and rural Missouri. However, he now says he lives too close to the noise in Jefferson City. What he hears coming out from under the sta…
Earlier this month, on March 8, we celebrated International Women’s Day. It’s said to be especially significant this year because of the sheer number of women who have decided to run for Unite…
My itinerant friend, Mike Dodd of Webster Groves, just sent me a screed puncturing all the myths about the Irish and the Old Sod. He has the chops to do this – his clan is Celtic and his relat…
Doctors never get used to putting bodies and minds back together after the carnage of gun violence. That may explain angry responses to a tweet from the NRA aimed at their profession: “Someone…
My son, Brandon, is sports editor for the Warrenton County Record. He was telling me recently about how excited the Warrenton High School athletes are that their school district is going to a …
We hosted some family get-togethers over the holidays. They were relatively peaceful. We had a few rules. Anyone who broke the ban on political talk had to take a mandatory timeout in either t…
It’s time to seize the day and build the wall. Not the wall that Mexico was supposed to pay for at our southern border, but a wall to stop invading Asian Carp from traveling up our Mississippi…
What were the most important events in Year 2018? This is the Times’ “Year In Review” edition, when this newspaper grapples with the dilemma of deciding what were the most important issues or …
Remember when Santa just had to bring toys like a Barbie, a Slinky or an Etch-A-Sketch to make the kids happy? Those days are long gone. ’Tis the season to be cyberspace savvy and to have old …
National news outlets are declaring this to be the Year of the Woman. That’s because more than 255 women ran for major office on Nov. 6, and a heck of a lot of them won. I say: “Congratulations!”
Roast turkeys have yet to land on our dining room tables and the Grinch is already loose upon us. However, this Grinch is not looking to steal Christmas, but to heist an election and quash the…
Covering politics is now a vicious contact sport. Although I have yet to be body-slammed by a politician, or had my Irish good looks disparaged by an angry partisan, I have dodged a few poison…
