Three entire baseball seasons and three World Series have been played since some St. Louis police officers were accused of giving to family and friends tickets for the 2006 series seized from scalpers. And there still is no public accounting of…

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Many people in St. Louis have been hurt by the deep recession.

Some have had work hours cut or lost benefits. Others have been laid off or worked for businesses that closed their doors.

The architecture profession, national and…

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On Sunday, President Barack Obama invited Republican leaders to share their ideas for health care reform at a Feb. 25 summit meeting.
Even before he asked, Missouri’s senior U.S. senator was outlining his: Privatize Medicare and limit benefits for…

What could possibly go wrong? (Photo by Jose More/Chicago News Cooperative)

It’s hard to break into the top tier of Illinois political scandals, but you have to think that Scott Lee Cohen has at least a fighting chance.

Here’s a guy, a…

The old Missouri State Penitentiary in Jefferson City, closed in 2004. AP Photo/The News Tribune, Julie Smith

Being blindly tough on crime has been something of a bust in Missouri. We’ve jacked up criminal punishments and invested billions of dollars in building…

People don’t want a complicated health care reform bill. They want something simple.That’s the received wisdom from pundits on the left and the right.
It’s easy to understand why. Our lives are complicated enough already.
Psychologists say our instinctive preference for simple…

From left, John Carlton, Jamie Riley, Dan Martin, Kevin Horrigan, RJ Matson, Eddie Roth and Gilbert Bailon. Elie Gardner/Post-Dispatch

Invariably, callers and letter writers ask who writes those unsigned Post-Dispatch editorials. So we asked our four staff writers to provide some…

A bold new candidate is running from office in Maryland’s 8th Congressional District. See the first campaign ad below.

Murray Hill Incorporated is a liberal public relations firm. It has announced its intention of running in…

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What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas … except the whining.

Vegas’ whining is echoing all over the country this week after President Barack Obama made a Groundhog Day speech at a high school in New Hampshire that contained an innocuous…

W. Stuart Symington (Official portrait from Air Force History Office)

Moving past prejudice is hard. Indeed, it’s worth recalling that President Harry S Truman issued his famous Executive Order 9981 in July 1948, just two weeks after southern delegates bolted from the…

No bed of roses: A hallway at the super-max federal prison in Florence, Colo.

President Barack Obama, having backed down from his decision to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in a federal courtroom in Manhattan, now is being pressured to back down entirely from…

Americans are conditioned to think that they get what they pay for. Caviar costs more than Vienna sausages. A Rolls Royce costs more than a Hyundai Accent.
That’s not the way health care works. The exact same medical treatment can cost…

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A general municipal election is scheduled in St. Louis County nine weeks from yesterday. Voters will elect mayors, city council members, school boards and other local officials.

And Proposition A will decide whether to impose an additional half-cent countywide…

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For a third consecutive year, Missouri Rep. Ellen Brandom, R-Sikeston, is sponsoring legislation that would subject state welfare applicants and recipients to drug testing.

House Bill 1377, as originally filed by Ms. Brandom, takes a simple approach. The Missouri…

A not-so-bustling hallway at Northwest Plaza last August. (Post-Dispatch file photo)

Back in the day — by which we mean 30 to 35 years ago — mayors of most of the other 91 municipalities in St. Louis County were pea-green jealous…