Gov.-elect Jay Nixon has named former state Rep. Margaret Donnelly to head the state Department of Health and Senior Services. We’re big fans of her work in the Legislature. We endorsed her in the Democratic primary for Attorney General.

But Ms.…

The short analysis of the results of Tuesday’s Missouri primary would be this: Money talked.

In nearly every major race, the candidate with the deeper pockets won. Those candidates were able to afford a barrage of last-minute television ads and automated phone…

That’s the margin that separated Democratic AG candidates Chris Koster and Margaret Donnelly when the final results came in last night. 345,790 total votes were cast for the Democratic AG candidates.

Koster’s razor-thin margin of victory — 43.3 percent to Donnelly’s 43.0…

In Missouri’s Aug. 5 Democratic and Republican primaries, voters will choose nominees for county and state offices, legislative seats and for the state’s nine U.S. House seats. In many races, candidates are unopposed or face only token opposition.

Today, the Post-Dispatch editorial…

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…