Editorial: Missouri Speaker's legacy: It's El Rushbo's House now

By the Editorial Board

Mark Twain was no fan of politicians. He thought they were crooks. He probably would have wanted no part of the honor bestowed upon him by former Missouri Speaker of the House Bob Griffin in 1982.

May 16, 2012 | 12:15 am | (Loading… ) comments.

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Editorial: What was wrong with the Glass-Steagall Act, anyway?

By the Editorial Board

Had the nation been more engrossed in what President Bill Clinton was doing with the financial industry in the mid-1990s and less in what he was doing with Monica Lewinsky, it might have avoided a whole lot of trouble.

May 16, 2012 | 12:10 am | (Loading… ) comments.

Editorial: Pay-to-play allegations will persist until Missouri has donation limits

By the Editorial Board

St. Louis-based Centene Corp. didn't appreciate the suggestion made on this page a month ago that its bid for a Missouri Medicaid services contract might have been aided by political contributions to Gov. Jay Nixon.

May 15, 2012 | 12:15 am | (Loading… ) comments.

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Editorial: The Rams' upscale wish-list would be a very heavy lift

By the Editorial Board

If you want to design a first-class, first-tier National Football League stadium, the guy to see is Bryan Trubey at HKS Sports and Entertainment Group in Dallas. He and his team did the new Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas, the new Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis and they're designing the ne…

May 15, 2012 | 12:10 am | (Loading… ) comments.

Editorial: Ballot proposals offer stark contrast to Legislature's follies

By the Editorial Board

And then there were four.

May 14, 2012 | 12:15 am | (Loading… ) comments.

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Editorial: Vibrant public discussion will make Arch proposal better

By the Editorial Board

Some time in the coming weeks, or perhaps months, the St. Louis Board of Aldermen and the St. Louis and St. Charles county councils will face a fairly easy decision.

May 14, 2012 | 12:10 am | (Loading… ) comments.

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Editorial: The bad old days of risky derivative trading never left

By the Editorial Board

For the vast majority of Americans — 99 percent, to borrow a phrase — banking is commercial and relatively simple. A checking account, a savings account, a credit card or two. A mortgage, a small-business loan or a line of credit for daily business cash flow.

May 13, 2012 | 12:15 am | (Loading… ) comments.

Editorial: Here's hoping the Blues have the owners their fans deserve

By the Editorial Board

One of the great local landmarks, right up there with the Arch and Forest Park and Ted Drewes custard, are the St. Louis Blues' fans.

May 13, 2012 | 12:10 am | (Loading… ) comments.

Horrigan: The Compensation Committee Report

Kevin Horrigan • khorrigan@post-dispatch.com, 314-340-8135

As part of this proxy statement for the annual meeting of shareholders of Old Sport Inc., the Compensation Committee of the board of directors (the Committee) furnishes the following report on executive compensation paid or awarded to the Columnist for 2011.

May 13, 2012 | 12:00 am | (Loading… ) comments.

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Short take: The king is the object

It's entirely appropriate that the region's newest obscure tourist attraction, the world's largest chess piece, is a king. The queen, with its wider range of moves, may be the strongest weapon on the board, but the object of the game is the king.

May 12, 2012 | 12:15 am | (Loading… ) comments.

Editorial: Mr. Obama supports same-sex marriage. Now move on.

By the Editorial Board

It would be difficult to overstate the historical significance of President Barack Obama's personal and very public affirmation Wednesday that people should be free to marry whom they choose, regardless of sexual orientation.

May 11, 2012 | 12:15 am | (Loading… ) comments.

Editorial: Shortage of key drugs may suspend death penalty in Missouri

By the Editorial Board

Missouri's bizarre recent history with its capital punishment procedures got more bizarre this week. A federal appeals court in St. Louis said Tuesday that there was no reason for it to rule on a challenge to the state's lethal injection protocol because the Department of Corrections could no lon…

May 11, 2012 | 12:10 am | (Loading… ) comments.

Editorial: Shame on Steelman for hypocritically condoning violent rhetoric

By the Editorial Board

"Kill the Claire Bear" is not a campaign slogan. It's not a poor choice of words. It's not a metaphor.

May 10, 2012 | 12:15 am | (Loading… ) comments.

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Editorial: New transportation bill must be free of Keystone contamination

By the Editorial Board

A congressional conference committee this week started trying to reconcile radically different provisions of two different transportation bills passed by the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives.

May 10, 2012 | 12:10 am | (Loading… ) comments.

Editorial: Legislative budget talks devolve into 'Shear' madness

By the Editorial Board

It's no secret that state Sen. Jane Cunningham, R-Chesterfield, has it out for the Sue Shear Institute.

May 09, 2012 | 12:05 am | (Loading… ) comments.

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Editorial: Luck finally runs out for al-Qaida's Fredo Corleone

By the Editorial Board

In the beginning of America's war on terrorism was a Yemeni jihadist named Fahd Mohammed Ahmed al Quso, who was to al-Qaida what Fredo was to the Corleone family.

May 09, 2012 | 12:00 am | (Loading… ) comments.

Editorial: Party leaders favor ethics reform, so what is the holdup?

By the Editorial Board

If a tree is felled in the forest to create the paper upon which a politician's ethics proposal is printed, does it make a noise?

May 08, 2012 | 12:15 am | (Loading… ) comments.

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Editorial: Health care fraud is a big, and sleazy, business

By the Editorial Board

News coverage of last week's simultaneous arrests of 107 people in seven cities for alleged health care fraud pretty much appeared and disappeared in a day, at least outside Miami, Baton Rouge, Houston, Los Angeles, Detroit, Tampa and Chicago, the cities involved.

May 08, 2012 | 12:00 am | (Loading… ) comments.

Editorial: Legislature takes small, but important step toward prison reform

By the Editorial Board

To borrow a phrase from Missouri Supreme Court Judge William Ray Price Jr., the ball of judicial reform now is rolling.

May 07, 2012 | 12:15 am | (Loading… ) comments.

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Horrigan: Superheroes! Assassins! Sequels!

Kevin Horrigan • khorrigan@post-dispatch.com, 314-340-8135

"Wow," I said, heading to the lobby. "Gun porn."

May 06, 2012 | 12:15 am | (Loading… ) comments.

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Editorial: East St. Louis as 'America's war zone'

By the Editorial Board

Yes, sir. There are a lot of yucks in East St. Louis. Last month "Saturday Night Live" mined that rich lode, with a character portraying the city's mayor insisting that it was a "hellhole."

May 06, 2012 | 12:05 am | (Loading… ) comments.

Editorial: Missouri Republican makes history challenging his caucus

By the Editorial Board

In 20 years, Rep. Zach Wyatt, R-Green Castle, will be in the Missouri history books as the first openly gay Republican to serve in the Legislature.

May 06, 2012 | 12:05 am | (Loading… ) comments.

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Editorial short take: Paul Ryan writes 'Dear John' letter to Ayn Rand

By the Editorial Board

Even in breaking up with his first love, U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan, a Wisconsin Republican, was true to her philosophy.

May 05, 2012 | 12:05 am | (Loading… ) comments.

Editorial: It's time to stop rationalizing torture

By the Editorial Board

Given the national obsession with anniversaries, it was neither surprising nor inappropriate to observe with great satisfaction Tuesday's first anniversary of the daring mission by members of SEAL Team 6 that ended the life of Osama bin Laden.

May 04, 2012 | 12:00 am | (Loading… ) comments.

Editorial: A strange odor is coming from Metro's garage

By the Editorial Board

You get a weird odor coming from your garage, what do you do? You haul everything outside, scrub it down and give it a thorough airing.

May 04, 2012 | 12:00 am | (Loading… ) comments.