Jeff Smith at an anti-Wal-Mart rally in 2006, before he needed a new cell phone. (AP/James Finley)
Those who have sought a deeper meaning in the disgrace of former Missouri state Sen. Jeff Smith have fallen back on the ancient Greek notion of…
City Justice Center: Abandon dope all ye who enter.
We have some prescriptive points to make in the wake of the arrests Thursday of three city corrections officers on federal charges of attempting to supply heroin to an inmate at the City Justice Center.
But…
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The Missouri House was awfully busy last week, passing or advancing a passel of terrible bills that would harm the public interest in any number of ways. Among the…
Not that its products are unsafe, but the Acme Co. would find it easy to make friends in the Missouri Legislature.
Regarding the revelation that FBI agents have been poking around the Missouri Capitol, looking into alleged “pay-to-play” schemes involving state…
AP Photo by Seth Perlman, February 2003.
I MET ROD BLAGOJEVICH just once. It was March 9, 2007. Twenty-one months later, I don’t know what to think about what I saw and experienced that day.
The Democratic governor of Illinois and several senior…
AP Photo/The Chicago Sun-Times, Scott Stewart
People have been profiting off the misery of others since the dawn of human history.
Some would argue that efforts to do so not only are the province of drug dealers and credit card companies but…
Jarrett Baker | Post-Dispatch
Corporate custodians of confidential medical data should be closely monitoring events connected to a nightmarish computer security breach in the St. Louis region.
Express Scripts is one of the nation’s largest pharmacy benefits managers. The company, with headquarters in…
The buzz yesterday was an Associated Press story with the following headline:
Officials: FBI Investigates ACORN for Voter Fraud
The story reads:
The FBI is investigating whether the community activist group ACORN helped foster voter registration fraud around the nation before the presidential…
This fascinating story from ABC News details the capture last month in Afghanistan of Dr. Aafia Siddique (or “Siddiqui”; Ar. عافية صديقي), the only woman ever named by the FBI as a top al-Qaeda operative.
Also significant was the “treasure trove” of…
It would be tempting to view the recent stories about the suicide of Army biodefense researcher Bruce Ivins — who was about to be indicted by the FBI for the 2001 anthrax attacks — as long-overdue “closure” to the situation.…
Most of you have probably heard about the shooting at Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church in Knoxville, Tennessee, over the weekend, which left two dead and seven wounded.
The shooter, Jim D. Adkisson, entered the church during a children’s play and opened…
