Dan Callahan
It began with a little black spot on Dan Callahan’s lower lip. He didn’t think it was anything to worry about. His doctor thought it was cancer.
The doctor was right.
It was neurotropic melanoma, a very rare — and very…
To no one’s great surprise, the national unemployment rate today exceeded 10 percent for the first time since 1983. It was another crushing, if symbolic, blow to the psyche of American workers.
The just-announced 10.2 national unemployment rate partly was fueled by…
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In the past 11 months, nine current or former St. Louis police officers have been charged with federal or state crimes. Four others have been publicly charged by the department with falsifying search warrant information or police reports.
Federal authorities…
Beautiful Interco Plaza. (Photo by Urban Review St. Louis)
From the windows of our offices Thursday morning, we watched as St. Louis Park Rangers and a bright orange city garbage truck destroyed a makeshift homeless camp across Dr. Martin Luther King Drive…
Protesters demand health reform at a rally outside Blue Cross headquarters in Los Angles last month.
Nothing about health care reform has inspired more overheated rhetoric than the so-called public option.
Opponents say it would unleash a government juggernaut against which no…
www.obama-weather.com
With Republican gains in Tuesday’s off-year elections, President Barack Obama doesn’t need a weatherman to tell him which way the winds are blowing. Luckily the president is now his own weatherman.
Just type www.obama-weather.com into your browser and up pops an avatar…
Who wants a drumstick? The six-foot-tall phorusrhacos longissimus roamed what is now Argentina during the Middle Miocene.
People often talk as if warming temperatures are the only evidence of human-induced global climate change. But the amount of carbon dioxide in the…
In Sunday’s third installment of a Post-Dispatch series on loopholes in Missouri’s drunk driving laws, we learned that the state law that mandates a one year-suspension of driving privileges for drivers who refuse to take a breathalyzer test often is a joke.
In…
WU Senior Class Treasurer Regis Murayi speaks at a news conference, along with Senior Class President Fernando Cutz and the five other students alleging racial discrimation by the Original Mothers bar. (Matt Mitgang | Student Life)
For all of Chicagoland’s storied toughness,…
House Democrats unveiled a sweeping health care reform bill last Thursday built on shared responsibility.
Individuals would have to buy health insurance for themselves and their families.
Taxpayers would subsidize coverage for those unable to afford it on their own.
Employers would have…
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Last week, Gov. Jay Nixon whacked another $203.7 million from the state’s budget. He’d already cut $385 million in July, and vetoed another $105 million when he signed the $23 billion budget in June.
The governor really had no choice.…
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…
Yanhui Zhang of the University of Illinois, father of pig manure-to-oil technology. (Tom Roberts/AP)
he legendary streets of El Dorado were said to be paved with gold. Now we learn that the roads in Missouri one day may be paved with…
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President Barack Obama is scheduled to meet today with the Joint Chiefs of Staff amid reports that he is close to a decision on new U.S. strategies in Afghanistan.
Not surprisingly for a president who has made conciliation the watchword of…
Missouri Education Commissioner Chris Nicastro
Missouri was slow out of the starting blocks, but now has gained its footing in the U.S. Department of Education’s ambitious “Race to the Top” competition. At stake: a share of $4.35 billion in federal stimulus money…
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The U.S. Chamber of Commerce was royally punked earlier this month, falling victim to an elaborate ruse by a group of political activists. The business group is peeved, calling the prank “commercial identity theft masquerading as…
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The Doe Run Company has been operating a giant lead smelter in Herculaneum for decades. For just as long, elevated lead levels have been found in people, properties and roads around it.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Missouri Department…
Barack Obama and Chris Wallace in happier days, before one became president and the other got snubbed.
Oscar Wilde once described fox hunting as “the unspeakable in full pursuit of the inedible.” What would he have said about Fox hunting? Perhaps…
A new study of Missouri’s public defender system — which provides lawyers for indigent defendants in criminal cases — says the system’s lawyers are so underpaid, overworked and badly supervised that they’re like the pilots of the commuter plane that crashed…
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