Elsewhere on this blog, you’ll find outraged comments from some readers objecting to R.J. Matson’s cartoon in today’s paper. I want to make two comments in response to them.

1. The cartoon’s premise, that the Internet provides a cloak of anonymity to…

On Tuesday morning, President Barack Obama plans to give a nationally televised speech directed to school children. He wants to talk about the importance of working hard and staying in school. It’s a kind of presidential pep talk for kids.

Bitter partisans have…

The Missouri Supreme Court was correct — and politically wise — to beg off broadly intervening in Missouri’s system of funding public primary and secondary education.

The high court decided Tuesday that the state education funding formula enacted in 2005 satisfies state constitutional…

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Post-Dispatch designer and illustrator Dan Martin — the man who has drawn the Weatherbird for the past 22 years — has given kids from 8 to 98 a terrific gift.

I am talking about boys and girls who go for the funnies…

As of noon, balloting closed for this week’s “Punchline” caption contest. Given the widespread skepticism about Ballpark Village, I figured R.J. Matson’s “Lake DeWitt” cartoon would draw a record number of entries. But R.J. reported late this morning:

The Lake DeWitt…