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05.08.2009 9:01 pm

Missouri budget is a triumph of adequacy

Among the winners.

Among the winners.

With the Missouri Legislature, you have take adequacy when it happens, even when the news is not as good as it should have been.

So let’s hear one hand clapping for the legislators who managed to set ideology aside…

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03.10.2009 9:03 pm

Missouri lawmakers defy common sense in health care for poor

House Budget Committee Chairman Allen Icet, R-Wildwood

House Budget Committee Chairman Allen Icet, R-Wildwood

Missouri lawmakers should not let ideology stand in the way of health care for the working poor.

Gov. Jay Nixon and the Missouri Hospital Association have come up with a plan to extend health insurance to…

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02.15.2009 9:03 pm

Mary Love: Unionist Emeritus (Corrected)

Mary Love stands on the stoop of her southside apartment (Eddie Roth/Post-Dispatch)

Mary Love stands on the stoop of her south side apartment (Eddie Roth/Post-Dispatch)

Mary Love is a cleaning lady. She works for a contractor and currently is assigned to clean in a bank building on Forsyth Boulevard in Clayton. Four hours a…

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05.13.2008 9:01 pm

Wednesday editorial: Wasting time and lives

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If it were put to a simple up-or-down vote today, Missouri lawmakers probably would agree to extend health insurance coverage to about 55,000 working parents who are struggling to raise their children.
But that’s not going to happen. Extending health insurance to…

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