Town and Country deer in 2001. (Post-Dispatch file photo)
The Economist is a British-based newsmagazine (albeit one that calls itself a “newspaper”) that has been covering world economic and political news since 1843 — don’t miss this week’s 14-page special report on…
Dan Callahan
Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., took to the Senate floor today to talk about Dan Callahan, the Southern Illinois University Carbondale baseball coach who has been denied coverage for the costly cancer drug Avastin. You can read the full blog…
Photo by Fielder Williams Strain
From the mayor’s blog:
Yesterday was a low point in the City’s hospitality. Badly supervised City employees callously destroyed the possessions of some homeless people who had chosen to camp illegally and for a extended period of…
Otto von Bismarck: Not socialist.
Forget all this nonsense about socialized health care. The first head of state to propose a national health system was at the other end of the political spectrum. His name: Otto von Bismarck.
The system established by…
U.S. Rep. Todd Akin
What is it about Canadian hips that so fascinates Missouri Republican Congressmen?
On Wednesday, U.S. Rep. Todd Akin, R-Town and Country, took to the House floor to repeat a claim we first debunked more than two months ago about the…
Public testimony in April 2009 regarding Maine’s marriage equality legislation. (h/t Andrew Sullivan).
Hops-challenged Rep. John Shimkus, R-Collinsville, being schooled on the White House basketball court . (White House photo by Pete Souza)
Laura Bischoff, a terrific reporter with whom I worked at the Dayton Daily News, produced this video about her sister, Amelia, who suffered a stroke earlier this year, and her use of tricycle that’s supported…
M. Peter Fischer (right) smiles as St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay (left) looks on during a ceremony honoring Fischer as the recipient of The St. Louis Award.
M. Peter Fischer received the St. Louis Award last week, a special laurel conferred…
"Badges? We don't need no stinkin' badges."
Here’s how much the Congressional Budget Office says a new health reform bill in the Senate would cost: $829 billion over 10 years.
The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post , Associated…
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Princeton University Prof. Sean Wilentz delivered the James Neal Primm lecture at the Mercantile Library at University of Missouri-St. Louis, last month.
I found it to be a terrific — and timely — talk, and I have edited…
So said Archbishop Silvano Tomasi, the Vatican’s permanent observer to the UN, in a statement he read after a human rights conference in which the Catholic Church’s response to child sexual abuse had been criticized, according to a report in The Guardian.
“As…
R.J. Matson/Post-Dispatch
On Thursday, state Rep. T.D. El-Amin, D-St. Louis, pleaded guilty to a federal charge of soliciting and accepting $2,100 in bribes.
Bad. Very bad. As state Rep. Joe Smith, R-St. Charles, told the Post-Dispatch’s Jake Wagman, it causes people to ask,…
To Anna Kratky, a young assistant St. Louis circuit attorney, it was a case of a man who violently lost control on a cold January night.
The police had received a 911 call that a man was beating a woman outside…
Dave Sinclair in 2005 (P-D photo by Dawn Majors)
A long time ago in a galaxy far away, I worked in the radio business. From time to time, an advertiser would ask that I be assigned to voice his commercials. One time…
Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images
The New York Times has reported that William Safire, former speechwriter to Richard Nixon and longtime political and language columnist, has died at 79.
The Pulitzer Prize winner could on occasions be mean and partisan in ways that…
Gone…and largely forgotten
Twenty years ago today , a bold — and ultimately foolish — experiment in journalism officially was launched when the St. Louis Sun published its first edition. As the Sun’s local columnist, I had a front-row seat.
I also had…
ACORN clearly is in a jam—maybe even in the fight for its life.
But the circumstances it faces couldn’t be much more difficult than what cigarette manufacturer Philip Morris went through at the height of the tobacco litigation siege, or what…
Elsewhere on this blog, you’ll find outraged comments from some readers objecting to R.J. Matson’s cartoon in today’s paper. I want to make two comments in response to them.
1. The cartoon’s premise, that the Internet provides a cloak of anonymity to…
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