Columns

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Out of necessity, a Catholic family brings "inclusion" to local school.

Hope Solo's failure is an opportunity for every youth sports coach in America.

On his regular Thursday appearance on the McGraw Milhaven show on KTRS, Post-Dispatch metro columnist Tony Messenger discusses disparity in local school funding in St. Louis.

What is systematic oppression? Judge in voting rights case provides the answer.

On his regular Tuesday appearance on the McGraw Milhaven show on KTRS, Post-Dispatch metro columnist Tony Messenger discusses the growing movement to pass new anti-corruption laws in Missouri. 

National groups eye Missouri as ripe for anti-corruption effort.

The Chicago Democrat has been the single constant of leadership through the state's financial decline.

The water fountain returns as metaphor for division in St. Louis.

On his Friday appearance on the McGraw Milhaven show on KTRS, Post-Dispatch metro columnist Tony Messenger discusses this week's Medicaid 23 trial in Jefferson City.

Preachers and clergy from around Missouri advocated that the state Legislature expand Medicaid to thousands of poor people who need it.

They were seeking relaxing and dull. That's not what they got.

Two years before Ferguson's abusive and often racist police and court practices were exposed to a national audience, Watson was caught in the system's web. Four years later he still can't escape.

Was there a point to which we want to return, instead of looking ahead?

Deaths of transfer student and his mother bring Wildwood and St. Louis together. 

Retired engineer says suburban investment can help reduce urban crime.

The community backed her, but the Community Fire Protection District fought her every step of the way, and still is.

I was not only wrong, I didn't vote for any of the people I predicted would win.

Two years after Ferguson, the movement lives, but its important work has barely begun.

Missouri ranks 49th in the nation for funding its public defender system. 

Danforth laments state of Missouri politics in year following Tom Schweich's death.

The program is simple: From May to August every Tuesday morning, a group of volunteers play softball for a couple of hours with homeless men and women. 

Couple came to St. Louis without documentation; children born here are U.S. citizens.