I was standing in the lunch line one day in seventh grade when an eighth grade boy tried to cut in front of me. I was a shy child but somehow I managed to summon the courage to tell…
One wonders when the so called free press of America is going to start touting the patriotic actions of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio. This man is doing more than any other law enforcement official in the entire United States…
What do I say to my young neighbor, seeking advice, when she wants to report a possible drug house in our neighborhood? “Call the Sheriff’s Department”. It seems simple, you would think. You would also think that in the Methamphetamine…
This is in response to the letter from Jenna Kotch in the Sunday, 8/2/09, Post-Dispatch.
How one can state with such certainty that race was behind the incident? No one except Mr. Gates and the officer knows exactly what transpired that…
All the media coverage of the arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates and the subsequent remarks of President Obama brought up old memories for me. Many years ago when my children were little I was stopped by the Collinsville…
The widow of the man we executed on May 20th made some profound points in her editorial. Dennis Skillicorn was, undoubtedly, responsible for his part in some awful crimes even though he never actually killed anyone. He had 14 years…
Based on recent articles in the Post-Dispatch, it seems that troops in Iraq are less likely to meet a violent end than males residing in north St. Louis.
The situation in St. Louis is disgusting and intolerable.
President Harry Truman had a…
Responding to the recent article citing statistics of racial profiling while driving in the state of Missouri. Before laying blame on the law enforcement community for these numbers, perhaps the broader picture should be painted first.
It’s wrong that blacks are…
The piece by Paula Skillicorn, widow of Dennis Skillicorn, is a powerful reminder of the suffering caused by the death penalty. First, the family of the murder victim, Richard Drummond, has had to suffer for years, having to re-live that…
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