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…

Enemies of an independent judiciary in Missouri are at it again. Measures have been filed in the Missouri House and Senate seeking to gut the state’s non-partisan judicial appointment process and render it little more than a political sham.

The state’s current…

This year in the St. Louis metropolitan region, 10 state senate seats are up for election, seven in Missouri and three in Illinois. Only two of the races, both of them in Missouri, truly are competitive. In other districts, incumbents…

Last week, by the narrowest of margins, the Missouri House passed a measure so boundlessly destructive and unnecessary that it almost goes without saying that it was sponsored by Rep. Jane Cunningham, R-Chesterfield. What’s more, the Republican majority that passed…