Water skiing on the Mississippi River

It takes more than 200 pages of dense, legalistic language to detail the intricacies of the federal Clean Water Act. But the bottom line is simple: Federal and state governments must protect lakes, streams and…

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Since time immemorial, one sure-fire way to get rich has been to find out ahead of time where a new road or bridge was going to be built, and then buy up all the right of way around it. When…

With the click of a mouse, you can track the swollen Mississippi River in real time as it plods downstream, overwhelming levees and elbowing beyond its banks.
But you can’t find a complete list of levees built along the upper half of…

A friend from flood-besieged Calhoun County writes:

When I went to Hamburg, IL to volunteer to help sandbag, a lady at the parking lot told me that I had to sign this loyalty oath before I could sandbag. I read it…

About 1 o’clock Friday morning, the Mississippi River will reach the highest level ever recorded at Clarksville, Mo. It will keep rising.
For the next two days, the river will go higher than it ever has been. Businesses from First Street to…

Metro East businesses and homeowners have been living on borrowed time.
Five levees along the Mississippi River from Alton to Columbia, Ill., are inadequate to protect low-lying communities from what’s called a 100-year flood. They have been deficient for years. But…

Here’s an advance look at one of the editorials that will appear in Tuesday’s Post-Dispatch and online at STLtoday.com/news/editorials.

HIGH WATER, HARD CHOICE

Some things in life are inevitable. Death and taxes rank right up there. So does flooding along the Meramec,…