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09.30.2009 10:11 am

Is Congress listening to you in the health care debate?

Despite a lot of attention paid to sometimes raucous town hall meetings in August, a majority of Americans feel “shut out” from the health care debate, a new poll by NPR, the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Harvard School of Public Health shows. An NPR story reported that 71 percent of respondents…

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01.30.2009 8:00 pm

Horrigan column: Stimulating reading

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

French president Nicolas Sarkozy today announced €600m ($786 million) in emergency aid for his country’s troubled newspaper industry and declared that every 18-year-old in France would get a year’s free subscription to the paper of their choice to boost reading…

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05.01.2008 11:28 am

Developments on troops/veterans mental health issues

ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH

My Wednesday column contrasted the solicitous treatment the government gives to retired senior officers moonlighting as on-air military analysts with the years of continuing struggle faced by active-duty troops and veterans to get decent care for mental problems, including post-traumatic…

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