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Editorial: Sinquefield sets public school debate ablaze with KKK talk
When St. Louisan Rex Sinquefield starts a fire, he uses a flame-thrower.
Feb 14, 2012 | 12:15 am | Loading…
Editorial: Contraception uproar precedes bigger health care debate
On Friday, President Barack Obama wisely quelled a political uproar that might never have erupted had he acted more wisely in the first place. It involved new preventive health rules requiring insurance policies to cover birth control medications, procedures and devices without co-pays or deducti…
Feb 14, 2012 | 12:10 am | Loading…
Editorial: Why does Missouri House pass pro-discrimination bills?
The best political advisers make their livings by framing conversations about complicated issues in a way that benefits their side. Lately, Republicans have been much, much better at this than Democrats.
Feb 13, 2012 | 12:10 am | Loading…
Editorial: More sunlight is needed on the dark arts of earmarks
The problem with earmarks, as with most tools of governance, isn't their existence but their abuse. Reforms introduced in 2007 helped, but much more extensive disclosure is needed to clean up the earmark process.
Feb 13, 2012 | 12:00 am | Loading…
Editorial: As one bubble ends; another is just getting started
There's a certain poetry to the notion that the remnants of the housing bubble might be used to ward off the next financial catastrophe facing the middle class: the looming student loan bubble.
Feb 12, 2012 | 12:10 am | Loading…
Editorial: Mr. Obama bows to reality in embracing super PACs
Unlike Henry Clay, Barack Obama would rather be president than right.
Feb 12, 2012 | 12:00 am | Loading…
Horrigan: A prescription for a tantrum
When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child. When I got sick, my mom got me medicine at a local drugstore by handing a nice man a prescription and paying him a few bucks.
Feb 12, 2012 | 12:00 am | Loading…
Short take: For domestic abuse, bowling and Red Lobster
Joseph Bray of Plantation, Fla., was hauled into court in Fort Lauderdale this week, accused of pushing his wife onto a sofa, placing his hand on her neck and threatening to hit her. In a scene that could have come from an Elmore Leonard novel, Judge John "Jay" Hurley issued the following order:
Feb 11, 2012 | 12:10 am | Loading…
Editorial: The StLondon Rams and the future of luxury football
Last week the St. Louis Convention and Visitors Commission presented the St. Louis Rams with its preliminary proposal for fixing up the Edward Jones Dome to make it a "first-tier" facility — that is, among the top 25 percent of the 31 National Football League playgrounds. The first-tier designati…
Feb 10, 2012 | 12:15 am | Loading…
Editorial: How a 'job creator' would actually help state of Missouri
Some time ago, as the economy was tanking, a focus group paid for by a political consultant must have reacted to the word "jobs" like children on Christmas morning.
Feb 09, 2012 | 12:15 am | Loading…
Editorial: Obama administration must clarify contraception rules
In an ideal world, reforming America's broken health care system would have produced a single-payer system — a Medicare-like program for people of all ages.
Feb 09, 2012 | 12:10 am | Loading…
Editorial: A lousy way to spend seven million bucks
Not to sound like a lottery commercial, but what would you do with $7 million? Probably not hold an election that didn't mean anything.
Feb 08, 2012 | 12:15 am | Loading…
Editorial: Foreclosure fraud demands justice and reparations
One of the enduring wrongs of the Great Recession has been that individual homeowners have borne and continue to bear the brunt of the housing collapse.
Feb 08, 2012 | 12:10 am | Loading…
Editorial: Money trail raises questions in Senate's blocking of curator
In blocking a well-qualified appointee to serve on the University of Missouri Board of Curators, Sen. Jim Lembke, R-Lemay, had a choice: He could proffer an argument that was self-indulgent, egotistical blather. Or he could tell the whole story.
Feb 07, 2012 | 12:15 am | Loading…
Editorial: A timely, if unfortunate, Super Bowl finger-flip
Nielsen ratings for NBC's Super Bowl broadcast Sunday estimate that nearly half the households in America were tuned to at least part of the game in Indianapolis between the New York Giants and the New England Patriots.
Feb 07, 2012 | 12:00 am | Loading…
Editorial: If House really wanted to save some money, they could
There is nothing members of the Missouri House, particularly Republicans, like to talk about more than what they call our country's "entitlement" culture.
Feb 06, 2012 | 12:15 am | Loading…
Editorial notebook: Women with cancer don't care about politics
My wife had her first mammogram last month.
Feb 06, 2012 | 12:10 am | Loading…
Horrigan: Ready for some football - but only football
Thank you for agreeing to see me on such short notice, doctor. I guess I just sort of flipped out.
Feb 05, 2012 | 12:05 am | Loading…
Editorial: Focus on common ground to improve public schools
People are very angry with their local governments these days.
Feb 04, 2012 | 12:15 am | Loading…
Editorial short take: Lawmakers cheer DGB; other students get IOU
With all the dysfunction in the Missouri Legislature, one topic — sports — tends to unite the body like no other. You want unanimous support on a resolution? Pass one honoring the Missouri Tigers. Better yet, have the coach and a few players show up in the Capitol.
Feb 04, 2012 | 12:15 am | Loading…
Editorial: Freddie Mac was wrong to bet against homeowners
In his State of the Union speech at the Capitol last week and in a follow-up appearance Wednesday in nearby Virginia, President Barack Obama touted new administration initiatives to help hard-pressed homeowners refinance their mortgages and ease the pressure on their family finances.
Feb 03, 2012 | 12:15 am | Loading…
Editorial: Cancer is not ideological; Komen shouldn't be, either
For 30 years, Susan G. Komen for the Cure has been helping women find, fight and, when possible, beat breast cancer. Toward those ends, it has contributed some $1.5 billion to support education, screening and treatment programs and advanced medical research.
Feb 02, 2012 | 12:15 am | Loading…
Editorial: Plan to weaken courthouse security ignores the past
At 10:10 a.m. on an otherwise unremarkable spring day in May 1992, chaos erupted in the St. Louis County Courthouse in Clayton.
Feb 02, 2012 | 12:00 am | Loading…
Editorial: Finally, Ed Martin chooses a race befitting his unique skills
Republican Ed Martin hasn't yet asked for our endorsement as he seeks the Republican nomination for Missouri attorney general, but, as he begins his reconnoitered campaign, we suggest an aggressive advertising strategy.
Feb 01, 2012 | 12:15 am | Loading…
Editorial: Has presidential negative advertising reached a tipping point?
While in St. Charles on Monday seeking to bolster his flagging presidential campaign, former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pa., took aim at the two favored candidates duking it out for the GOP nomination.
Feb 01, 2012 | 12:00 am | Loading…
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