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Last week, Gov. Jay Nixon whacked another $203.7 million from the state’s budget. He’d already cut $385 million in July, and vetoed another $105 million when he signed the $23 billion budget in June.
The governor really had no choice.…
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Americans are being ill-served by the nature of the debate over President Barack Obama’s pending decision about the future of America’s efforts in Afghanistan.
No matter what you may have heard on talk radio or cable news, or read on…
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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,…
Reconstruction work in Iraq in 2007. (AP/Getty Images)
In 2003, as $50 billion of U.S. reconstruction money began flowing into Iraq, the Parsons Co., a huge engineering and construction management firm based in Pasadena, Calif., got a $3 million contract to renovate…
Reforming the nation’s financial regulatory system, which Congress is expected to take up later this year and early next year, is shaping up as a huge hairball, replete with special interest groups, feuding bureaucrats, television ad campaigns and massive amounts…
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To read Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal’s assessment of the war in Afghanistan is to reach some disturbing conclusions about a conflict in which the United States has been engaged for eight years:
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In the sub-zero cold of late November 1950, south of the Yalu River near the village of Kunu-ri in what now is North Korea, Pvt. 1st Class Charlie Rangel, though wounded by shrapnel, helped lead 40 of his fellow…
Madison Square Garden was stiflingly hot on the night of Aug. 12, 1980. The long Democratic presidential primary campaign had ended bitterly, with President Jimmy Carter beating back a surprisingly inept challenge by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts. The only…
Margaret Bush Wilson (Missouri Historical Society)
Six years ago this month, Margaret Bush Wilson, the St. Louis lawyer and civil rights pioneer who died here Tuesday night at age 90, gave an extended interview to Christine Lamberson of Washington University as…
Sonia Sotomayor
Among the 68 U.S. senators who voted Thursday to confirm Sonia Sotomayor to the United States Supreme Court was Missouri Republican Christopher S. “Kit” Bond.
This editorial page has had its differences with Mr. Bond, and he with us,…
Fine art needs a fine German castle.
In the very, very old days, the social value of private transportation was easy to figure. A person could go no farther in a day than he could walk; if he got where he was…
Here in flyover country, there is a temptation to a certain schadenfreude about the problems besetting the state of California. Years of hearing about sunshine, scenery, science, beaches, mountains, movie stars and cheap education at terrific public universities can’t help…
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The federal minimum wage went up 70 cents an hour on Friday, to $7.25 an hour, the third and last of the scheduled increases enacted by Congress in 2007. Let the standard arguments begin:
Con: It sets…
Adam Wainwright, master of the nasty curveball. Now it may be safe for kids to try this at home. (Chris Lee/Post-Dispatch)
Another cherished childhood myth bites the dust: Maybe it’s not so bad after all if your kid wants to throw…
Depressing statistics in the wake of the continuing global recession are many: national unemployment trending toward double digits, housing starts slowing to a trickle and home foreclosures skyrocketing.
But hard times also appear to have slowed down immigration — including illegal…
Kurt Granberg, poster boy for retirement planning. (Post-Dispatch file photo)
During his 22 years in the Illinois legislature, Kurt Granberg became something of an expert on the state’s severe underfunding of its five public pension funds. “People didn’t pay attention,” he told…
One slight problem: the F-22 requires 30 hours of maintenance for every hour in flight.
Congress this week is engaged in one of those debates that makes you want to throw up your hands in despair over the political process. At…
With a TV image of Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, in the background, Judge Sonia Sotomayor shows the strain of last week's confirmation hearings.
History will show that Sonia Sotomayor would become the first person of Hispanic heritage to serve on the…
As he often does, the satirist Andy Borowitz came painfully close to the truth in Thursday’s edition of his online “The Borowitz Report.” In a story headlined “Goldman Sachs in Talks to Acquire Treasury Department,” Mr. Borowitz writes:
In what some on…
Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon on Tuesday released his hold on $1.5 million in state funding for the 2009 Tour of Missouri, the cross-state bicycle race that is a pet project of Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder.
The race, scheduled for Sept. 7-13, will…
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