About 60 percent of Americans - 175 million people - now live in communities that restrict smoking in public places.
On Nov. 3, voters in St. Louis County can add the county’s nearly 1 million residents to the list by voting…
Missouri Republican Sen. Kit Bond announced today that he would vote to confirm Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court. The vote is expected before the Senate goes into recess on Friday. No more than seven Republicans are expected to…
City Hall: Room 200 up for grabs
If somehow the stars were to align themselves on April 7 in such a way that Maida Coleman were elected mayor of St. Louis, things sure would be a lot more interesting at City Hall.…
Northeast Fire District lawyer Elbert Walton Jr. looms over board members Robert Edwards, left, and Joe Washington. (Post-Dispatch photo/J.B. Forbes)
A year ago, this editorial page enjoyed one of its proudest moments: One of our essays was reproduced on a door hanger and…
A rare photo of Mayor Slay not wearing a blue suit.
There may come a day when Francis G. Slay loses a race for mayor of St. Louis. Absent a tragedy or a miracle, it won’t be in the Democratic primary March…
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Endorsements: a response.
For the last month or so, the Post-Dispatch editorial board has been offering its recommendations on candidates and issues on Tuesday’s ballot. Endorsements always generate a lot of comment and that is the case again this year. Human…
The St. Louis County Charter is like a local constitution, detailing county government’s civil service and budget systems and the duties and responsibilities of various public officials.
The charter also says that every 10 years, county residents must vote on this question:…
A Jefferson County subdivision under construction in 2004. (P-D file photo)
On Nov. 4, Jefferson County voters will be asked to change a form of government that has existed since frontier days. Proponents of the ballot measure say the county has…
On Nov. 4, voters in the St. Louis metro area will choose more than 70 legislators to represent them in in the respective House of Representatives in Missouri and Illinois. The charts linked below list the candidates in contested races…
This year in the St. Louis metropolitan region, 10 state senate seats are up for election, seven in Missouri and three in Illinois. Only two of the races, both of them in Missouri, truly are competitive. In other districts, incumbents…
In the latest CBS/New York Times poll, only 12 percent of the American public approved of the way Congress was doing its job.
Nevertheless, come Nov. 4, 95 percent or more of U.S. House incumbents seeking reelection are expected to keep their…
With one of the most widely anticipated presidential races in U.S. history at the top of the ballot and a hotly-contested governor’s race just below it, it’s safe to say that the race for Missouri treasurer isn’t a top-of-mind concern for…
This will come as a surprise to Missouri Gov. Matt Blunt, but he is not the current state officeholder with whom this editorial page has had the most differences over the years; it is Attorney General Jay Nixon.
The Republican governor has…
Post-Dispatch photo by Robert Cohen
Nine Days before the Feb. 5 presidential primaries in Missouri and Illinois, this editorial page endorsed Barack Obama and John McCain in their respective races.
We did so enthusiastically. We wrote that either Mr. Obama’s message of…
