LETTER TO THE EDITOR: With no online options, Missouri limits choices for gamblers

• Jason Swetitch

Missouri's lack of online options or sports betting opens the door to a black market for desirable gaming. 

EDITORIAL: Missouri needs to improve maternal health

• Jefferson City News Tribune

Missouri has one of the highest rates of death during and after pregnancies.

DARKOW: Gutting Clean Missouri

• John Darkow

Editorial cartoon by John Darkow

GUEST COMMENTARY: The enemy is us

• Steven V. Roberts

The GOP is actively driving away with its hostile policies any new voters. 

EDITORIAL: Time to reassess gambling in Missouri?

• Jefferson City News Tribune

Our state is looking at sports betting, which will likely be a topic during the newly started legislative session.

DARKOW: Harry and Meghan escape

• John Darkow

Editorial cartoon by John Darkow

GUEST COMMENTARY: 3 quotes that defined the first debate of 2020

• Dennis Jett, Amy Dacey and Pearl K. Dowe

Three scholars watched Tuesday's debate in Des Moines, Iowa, and selected a quote from one of the candidates to analyze.

DARKOW: Russians are back

• John Darkow

Editorial cartoon by John Darkow

EDITORIAL: Missouri must limit schools' use of isolation rooms is inhumane

• Kansas City Star

Thirty states already have laws limiting restraints and seclusion, and 19 prohibit it altogether.

GUEST COMMENTARY: Soaring health costs deserve attention

• St. Joseph News-Press

Policymakers have a difficult needle to thread because efforts to reduce costs by government fiat could lead to hospital closures.

GUEST COMMENTARY: If Parson is so proud of his abortion stand, why does his campaign downplay it?

• St. Louis Post-Dispatch

But to find his position on abortion, website visitors must search beyond his endorsement in the state treasurer’s race.

C.W. DAWSON: Closing off our minds to new thoughts thwarts our ability to grow

• C.W. Dawson

All of us need to stop and listen to each other instead of operating out of our fears and prejudices.

DARKOW: Lying liars

• John Darkow

Editorial cartoon by John Darkow

KEN MIDKIFF: Roe v. Wade is a legal issue, not a political one

• Ken Midkiff

Rep. Vicky Hartzler has signed a letter asking the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn the decision. 

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Never reporting news in Trump's favor is as bad as fake news

• Frank Burkett

If anyone thinks fake news is not reported about the president, I don’t believe they are living in my world.

EDITORIAL: Fear of grift should not halt aid to Puerto Rico

• Miami Herald

Fear of corruption should propel the administrations in both the U.S. and the commonwealth to establish rigorous checks and balances to ensure money does not go into grifters’ pockets.

EDITORIAL: Iran must break free from its revolutionary mindset

• The Khaleej Times

Sectarianism stoked by Iran has spread and militias backed by Tehran have inflicted much damage in countries like Yemen, Iraq, and Lebanon.

DARKOW: Taking attendance at MU

• John Darkow

Editorial cartoon by John Darkow

GUEST COMMENTARY: We must draw our nation back from precipice of war

• Jeff Stack

Nationwide, people are mobilizing to urge an end to brutal sanctions and to protest a U.S. war upon Iran.

DARKOW: Cracker Jack task force

• John Darkow

Editorial cartoon by John Darkow.