11.20.2008 9:00 pm

Greene County knows how to pick judges

An Election Day story with a happy ending has received little coverage in this part of the state. It deserves more.

On Nov. 4, voters in Greene County — the state’s 31st Judicial Circuit — approved a…

10.23.2008 9:03 pm

Friday editorial: One judge out of order

St. Louis County Courthouse. J.B. Forbes/Post-Dispatch

There’s been much bellyaching in recent years, mainly from hard-core conservatives, about how judges are selected in Missouri.

Under the pioneering program acclaimed nationally as the “Missouri Plan,” state Supreme Court and Court of Appeals judges are…