No Missouri politician can afford to appear soft on drug use. But what if the drug use includes people seeking relief from colds and allergies?
Last week, Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster vowed to support a misguided proposal that would make…
Elbert Walton Jr., standing, and tame fire board members Robert Edwards, left, and Joe Washington. (Post-Dispatch photo by J.B. Forbes)
So here’s attorney Elbert Walton Jr. and his pet rocks at the Northeast Ambulance and Fire Protection District. Though besieged by…
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…
The short analysis of the results of Tuesday’s Missouri primary would be this: Money talked.
In nearly every major race, the candidate with the deeper pockets won. Those candidates were able to afford a barrage of last-minute television ads and automated phone…
That’s the margin that separated Democratic AG candidates Chris Koster and Margaret Donnelly when the final results came in last night. 345,790 total votes were cast for the Democratic AG candidates.
Koster’s razor-thin margin of victory — 43.3 percent to Donnelly’s 43.0…
In Missouri’s Aug. 5 Democratic and Republican primaries, voters will choose nominees for county and state offices, legislative seats and for the state’s nine U.S. House seats. In many races, candidates are unopposed or face only token opposition.
Today, the Post-Dispatch editorial…
Last Saturday, the day after Missouri Gov. Matt Blunt signed Senate Bill 1038, which repeals the limits on campaign contribution to state political candidates, we pulled up behind a car on Chippewa Street and noticed a bumper sticker that read: “We…
