And now for something completely different: An emotion-free issue raised in the health reform debate.
It starts with a deceptively simple question. We all trust our doctors to recommend what is best when we get sick. But how does your doctor…

If you’ve been following the debate about clean indoor air laws in the St. Louis region, you’ve probably heard how sales tax receipts fell when one was passed in Ballwin.

But you probably didn’t know that they also fell before the law…

People with spotty Medicaid eligibility — coverage that starts and stops and starts again — are nearly four times more like to end up in the hospitals with conditions like asthma and diabetes than people with continuous coverage, a new…

“She lacks the power of conversation, but not the power of speech.”
— George Bernard Shaw

All of us know someone who just doesn’t get it. Now we know where they just don’t get it.
Specifically, we now know that people lose the…