Yanhui Zhang of the University of Illinois, father of pig manure-to-oil technology. (Tom Roberts/AP)
he legendary streets of El Dorado were said to be paved with gold. Now we learn that the roads in Missouri one day may be paved with…
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Stud poker players are familiar with the tactic known as “betting on the come” — holding three or four cards with good potential, but only if cards to come turn the hand into a winner.
Betting on the come is…
Missouri’s grim revenue picture got even grimmer last month, with tax collections falling 16.3 percent below what they were in September 2008 — and revenue in September 2008 was lousy to begin with.
The only bright spot in Missouri’s revenue picture —…
Alabama Gov. George Wallace in the schoolhouse door, arguing for states' rights, June 11, 1963.
Whatever hopelessly wacky idea is floated in the conservative blogosphere, Missourians can be confident that state Sen. Jane Cunningham, R-Chesterfield, will lasso it and bring it back…
What’s in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet.
— Shakespeare, “Romeo and Juliet,” (Act II, Scene 2)
If "sewer" was good enough for Ed Norton, it should be good enough for MSD.
Yes, Juliet, and…
Everglades battle: Python v. alligator
Who knew that 25-foot-long snakes had their own lobbyists? Is this a great country or what?
The Pet Industry Joint Advisory Council and the United States Association of Reptile Keepers have mounted an attack on two bills in…
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,…
An Air Force C-37A; House appropriators want a couple of the upgraded C-37Bs, the military version of the Gulfstream G550.
You’re going to love this: Last month, the House Appropriations Committee quietly added $132 million to the 2010 defense appropriations bill to…
If we had even one ounce of technical know-how, we’d be working on a cheap device that could be installed in a car to block cell phone signals while the engine is running.
It would be wired into the ignition system…
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…
AP Photo/Jim Prisching
When Franklin D. Roosevelt wanted to stimulate the economy in 1933, the first thing he did was create the Civilian Conservation Corps.
Within 37 days of FDR’s inauguration, he had proposed and Congress had enacted the CCC. On the 38th…
The British General Staff's battle map.
Last month the New York City Council approved a developer’s proposal to erect an 18-story apartment tower on the East River in Brooklyn, just east of the Brooklyn Bridge. The project is controversial not only because…
According to the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism, on Thursday and Friday of last week, the nation’s cable news networks devoted 93 percent of their airtime to the death of Michael Jackson.
$45 hat similar to $510,00 hat.
Rick Reilly of ESPN The Magazine tells the story this week of one Alfred G. Rava, attorney at law, who has reached a $510,000 settlement with the Oakland A’s baseball team and Macy’s Department Stores in a…
Maybe they'd like a shower curtain, too.
Maybe you’ve said it yourself, looking out a window as rain pours down: “Great day for ducks.” Now, scientists in Great Britain have spent £300,000 (about $471,000) proving that yes, ducks actually enjoy a nice…
There was something especially sickening about three young men being gunned down on Market Street early last Friday.
According to news reports, they had just left a nightclub called Club Society on South 21st Street. Their vehicle was stopped at a…
Leonard Abess Jr. (Photo by Daniel Portnoy, Florida Trend)
In 1982, President Ronald Reagan began the lovely tradition of inviting everyday heroes to be the president’s guests during the State of the Union address, and perhaps to serve as human talking…
Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images
It is a quadrennial Beltway ritual: an incoming administration’s selection of cabinet secretaries, top department officials and senior White House staff. The Obama presidency-in-waiting is cranking at full throttle on this essential…
