The Weatherbird blogs, politely. Dan Martin | Post-Dispatch
Almost a year ago, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch editorial page ventured into the blogosphere by creating the The Platform, designed to give readers an interactive place to debate important issues.
The guidelines remain unchanged: “The Platform is where…
AP Photo by Seth Perlman, February 2003.
I MET ROD BLAGOJEVICH just once. It was March 9, 2007. Twenty-one months later, I don’t know what to think about what I saw and experienced that day.
The Democratic governor of Illinois and several senior…
Tobacco companies have sold “light” cigarettes for decades by promoting their supposedly low tar content, implying that this might make them less harmful to smokers’ health than cigarettes with more tar. For most of that time, they’ve known the claim…
It may be, with the gloomy headlines from Washington, Wall Street, Detroit and elsewhere, that more Americans than usual are restive this Thanksgiving.
Unemployment and uncertainty are up. Confidence is down. Retailers are looking at a bleak holiday season. The president-elect,…
Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images
It is a quadrennial Beltway ritual: an incoming administration’s selection of cabinet secretaries, top department officials and senior White House staff. The Obama presidency-in-waiting is cranking at full throttle on this essential…
Boxes of documents are wheeled into the Post-Dispatch
In 1993, former Attorney General William Webster pleaded guilty in federal court to illegally using state workers and state computers in a political campaign. He was disbarred and served nearly 21 months in…
In a perfect world, there would be no need for temporary shelters to house abused and neglected children. There would be no need for family crisis intervention programs. Children would be valued and loved and protected.
Earlier this week, I wrote a blog item about the debate over U.S. domestic oil exploration. It includes background information on the issue, including data about estimated oil reserves and U.S. production, importation and consumption.
Even people who think they have health insurance can find out they’re not covered. Unfortunately, that usually happens after they discover that they need coverage.
My colleague Mary Jo Feldstein wrote yesterday about a south St. Louis woman whose insurance company refused…
