Republican Glenn Youngkin was recently sworn in as the new governor of Virginia, a state that Joe Biden won by almost half a million votes. What caused such a rapid shift in sentiment?
Editorial cartoon by John Darkow
Editorial cartoon by John Darkow
Republican Glenn Youngkin was recently sworn in as the new governor of Virginia, a state that Joe Biden won by almost half a million votes. What caused such a rapid shift in sentiment?
Gov. Mike Parson delivered another State of the State speech Wednesday amid pandemic-crisis conditions that appear oddly similar to the ones a year ago that forced him to deliver his speech from the state Senate chamber rather than the House.
Editorial cartoon by John Darkow
Editorial cartoon by John Darkow
Instead of unveiled gerrymandering, how about draw a fair map grouping nearby communities and let the chips fall where they may?
I am a retiree who uses the ARC five days a week. Last week my car keys were stolen from my coat pocket in an unlocked locker, and then a woman went to my car and stole my purse in the car.
A spokesperson for the Missouri State Teachers Association says “education is one of those things where numbers don’t always tell the full story.”
Editorial cartoon by John Darkow.
“What I’m saying to you this morning is communism forgets that life is individual. Capitalism forgets that life is social. And the kingdom of brotherhood is found neither in the thesis of communism nor the antithesis of capitalism, but in a higher synthesis.
Our state and community leaders have failed our children.
With a full slate of business at the state Capitol, we hope Missouri Senate Republicans can unite for the good of the party and the state.
What does Missouri’s Republican leadership want? Less government or more government.
Vaping — the use of electronic cigarettes — poses significant health risks to young people. According to the 2021 National Youth Tobacco Survey released by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, over 2 million middle and high schoolers curre…
In 1998, Scott Dye and I acted as local plaintiffs for a national Sierra Club lawsuit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for failure to conduct a Total Maximum Daily Load study on Hinkson Creek.
Editorial cartoon by John Darkow
The Great Hack” is a 2019 Netflix documentary about how Cambridge Analytica used Facebook data to target “persuadable” voters in toss-up states to win the 2016 presidential election for Donald Trump.
Child poverty is bad for the United States. And we’re paying a terrible social and economic cost for allowing it to continue.
Editorial cartoon by John Darkow
We don’t understand how the Columbia School Board can live with the fact that their decision is making children sick.
The politicians who want to keep Missouri’s government secret are at it again.
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