Laurie Skrivan | Post-Dispatch
Six weeks ago, we offered Missouri Gov. Matt Blunt some advice for burnishing his reputation before he leaves office Jan. 12. Among our suggestions: Turn over all of his office’s disputed e-mails, fire his lawyers and save…
Boxes of documents are wheeled into the Post-Dispatch
In 1993, former Attorney General William Webster pleaded guilty in federal court to illegally using state workers and state computers in a political campaign. He was disbarred and served nearly 21 months in…
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Missouri’s Public Service Commission is supposed to be an honest broker, fairly assessing the often conflicting interests of large utility companies and their customers.
That’s not how things have worked over the last few years. Instead, the playing field has tilted…
The number of uninsured Missouri children increased by 44 percent since Gov. Matt Blunt took office in 2005, a fact we noted on this page Sept. 14. In a letter to the editor that we published Wednesday, Mr. Blunt complained…
Real estate mogul Paul J. McKee Jr. may have a brilliant plan to remake long-suffering sections of St. Louis, north of downtown.
But no one can say for sure because he has released very few details. The result has been years of…
The number of Missouri children without health insurance soared by 44 percent between 2005 and 2007, an analysis of newly released Census Bureau figures show. Anecdotal evidence suggests it has continued to grow this year as the…
Late Wednesday afternoon the Missouri Supreme Court postponed for at least 30 days the state’s plans to administer the death penalty for the first time in almost three years. It was the correct decision.
We say that not only because this editorial…
Gov. Matt Blunt and SAB member Rick Sullivan held a press conference to talk about St. Louis Public Schools.
But reporters on hand had other issues they wanted the governor to address.
Click below to hear the governor’s answers to some questions…
Gov. Matt Blunt announced this week that he is forming a blue-ribbon statewide task force to examine an especially vulnerable group of Missourians: boys and girls who have bounced around the state foster care system, never having found an adoptive family,…
The St. Louis-based Missouri Foundation For Health gives away about $60 million a year to nonprofit groups that provide medical care to the poor and uninsured. The foundation has paid for kids’ dental care; provided the cervical cancer vaccine to…
