Water seeping under a levee near the Mel Price Lock and Dam in Alton.
A plague of “sand boils” undermining an important Mississippi River levee in Alton is an ominous reminder of the critical need for extensive flood protection improvements in the…
Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster filed suit earlier this month against six companies that market “extended service contracts” and special “additives” to automobile owners. The companies, which promise to reimburse consumers for costly auto repairs, have generated an epidemic of complaints.
“I…
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Vice President Joe Biden was on “The Daily Show” Tuesday night, being grilled, ever so lightly, by host Jon Stewart on why unemployment was so high and the Obama administration’s $787 billion stimulus package seems to be producing so few…
Women worried about breast cancer have just one concern: What can they do to reduce the risk of dying from the disease?
One answer is to get regular mammograms. Over the past 15 years, that advice has saved thousands of lives.…
“Like a lot of people, as soon as I got my copy of Sarah Palin’s ‘Going Rogue,’ I immediately thought of the German literary critic Hans Robert Jauss.”
— Matthew Continetti, The Washington Post, Nov. 17
Somehow we doubt that a lot…
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So now comes Missouri Auditor Susan Montee to say the Northeast Ambulance and Fire Protection District is the worst-run agency her office ever has encountered, a “poster child” for bad government, a place where none of the books are balanced,…
A volunteer at a St. Charles County food pantry looks over empty shelves.
The number of Americans without enough to eat has reached the highest level since the federal government began keeping track 14 years ago.
About 49 million people — including…
Town and Country deer in 2001. (Post-Dispatch file photo)
The Economist is a British-based newsmagazine (albeit one that calls itself a “newspaper”) that has been covering world economic and political news since 1843 — don’t miss this week’s 14-page special report on…
A baby in St. Louis Childrens Hospital Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.
The little girl lay silent and asleep.
She wore a white stocking cap. A pair of plastic tubes sprouted from her chest, deep crimson from the blood that filled them.
They led…
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If you’re planning to get sick outside of regular business hours, you’d be well advised to do it in the Netherlands.
Almost every Dutch primary care doctor — 97 percent, to be precise — has a nurse or physician…
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On Tuesday afternoon, after Missouri Auditor Susan Montee released an audit critical of the St. Louis Police Department’s business practices, we intended to confront Police Chief Daniel Isom and Todd Epsten, chairman of the Board of Police Commissioners, with…
A wounded soldier from the 10th Mountain Division is evacuated from Afghanistan in August. (David Goldman/AP)
For decades historians have argued whether, had he lived, President John F. Kennedy would have sent the nation full tilt into Vietnam the way President Lyndon…
In what would seem to have been a no-brainer, a three-judge panel of the Eighth U.S. Court of Appeals in St. Louis ruled last year that prosecuting attorneys should not receive blanket immunity from lawsuits and monetary damages when they use false…
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On this Veterans Day, its worth remembering that the holiday originally was named Armistice Day, a commemoration of the end, on Nov. 11, 1918, of the “war to end all wars.”
By November 1954, it had become apparent that hadn’t quite…
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Forty years have passed since puppeteer extraordinaire Jim Henson and a brilliant cast of producers, writers and performers at Children’s Television Workshop launched an experimental children’s program called “Sesame Street.”
It was a response to what Federal Communications Commission Chairman…
Here’s something you won’t learn from reading headlines or obsessively watching text crawl across the bottom of the TV screen: Health care reform isn’t a horse race.
It doesn’t turn on what the latest key member of Congress said this morning…
Paint being from the brick facade of a house in the 1800 block of Pestalozzi Street in Benton Park in 2003. (Andrew Cutraro/Post-Dispatch
Landmarks Association of St. Louis — one of the premier historic preservation and advocacy groups in the nation — will…
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…
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