Opinion: This deadly storm didn’t discriminate, but its impact was far from equal. It hit hardest in the areas that could least afford it: Neighborhoods already burdened by poverty.
On Friday, a devastating EF3 tornado swept through ӣƵ, leaving a path of destruction across multiple neighborhoods. The storm tragically resulted in five fatalities and injured dozens of individuals. According to city officials, more than 5,000 buildings suffered damage, leading to es…
Does U.S. Rep. Ann Wagner have any thing to say about any of the important issues of our day? Anything at all?
These days, most organizations seem to have a mission statement or a motto. We’ve heard what we assumed to be the motto of the U.S. Postal Service so long that most can recite it like the Miranda warning: “Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night shall stay these couriers from th…
Regarding the Post-Dispatch article “MetroLink’s new gates don’t yet work. ‘Worse than useless,’ rider says“ (May 12):
Fixing Congress would improve American politics and America's mounting list of crises.
My friend Kit Bond and I entered public life on the same day, Jan. 13, 1969. Along with three other energetic young lawyers, we began work in the office of the Missouri Attorney General, the position to which I had just been elected. Just a little past my 32nd birthday, I was the oldest of o…
One of the most fulfilling parts of my career has been mentoring young female entrepreneurs. They often ask me how to maintain work-life balance. I wish I had good news. But the unvarnished truth is that while you can set boundaries, prioritize your mental health or even take vacations, as l…
Inflation has been a hot topic for years. Whether eggs at the grocery store, construction materials for a renovation or subscription prices for streaming services, Americans are having trouble finding relief from an onslaught of cost increases.
As if on cue this Mother’s Day, thoughts of what makes me a woman and a mother have been swirling in my mind. I came to the following conclusion in the hours after the surgery that would take away my breasts: Body parts and hormones do not define you who you are, your chromosomes and your ac…
As a boy, I thought there was nothing cooler to be than a catcher. There you were, crouching in the dirt, surveying the baseball diamond as the general. The pitcher counted on you. You positioned the infielders. If the ball got past you, it might as well have rolled forever.
Approximately 3.4 million Illinoisans rely on Medicaid as a lifeline to accessible, necessary health care. But to some legislators, Medicaid is “wasteful spending.” The latest congressional budget slashes Medicaid dollars that are crucial to saving lives in Illinois.
If you feel you are short on time, you are in the majority. A recent poll shows that 60 percent of Americans find they don’t have enough time to meet their daily needs. “Needs” translates to work, chores, errands, and — where we “cheat most” — our sleep.
In 1959, my family entered the television business when KPLR-TV first signed on the air with a Cardinals baseball broadcast. Back then, television was still a wild frontier, and the rules of the game were being written in real time.
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The Trump administration’s response to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s taking detailed information from the Central Command’s classified system about U.S. attacks on the Houthis, a group attacking ships in the Red Sea and Israel, and putting it on the minimally encrypted Signal system ha…
Solving homelessness is a complicated challenge in any community. It requires a coordination of limited resources within a complex, response system.
The Supreme Court delivered very bad news in April to the 15 million Americans desperately trying to quit smoking cigarettes. In the landmark vaping case, FDA v. Wages and White Lion (Triton Distribution), the justices unanimously held that the Food and Drug Administration did not breach its…
Sig is a good boy, trained to obey. So, according to court documents in a federal case, he complied when his police handler ordered him to enter a home in Highlands Ranch, Colo., and bite anyone inside.
Americans think we are ruder than ever, but generational differences in values, particularly when it comes to swearing, suggest that our standards are simply shifting.
Most of my friends are retired boomers, as am I. We predate the Civil Rights Era. In our youth, we’d fought for equality for everyone regardless of race, creed, religion or sexual orientation.
As the Passover festival of liberation begins to fade, we write as rabbis serving Central Reform Congregation, compelled by our tradition’s deepest teachings.
Academic freedom in American universities faces threats today unmatched since the dark years of McCarthyism in the 1950s. Faculty at Washington University in ӣƵ this month have answered the emergency by forming a chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP). Mor…
The United States is suffering from an affordable housing crisis. Missouri is not immune to it. Forty-six percent of Missouri renter households are cost-burdened, meaning they pay more than 30% of their income towards rent; 20% are severely cost-burdened, meaning that more than half their ho…
I’ve been counting.
A survey at the end of Donald Trump’s first term showed that two-thirds of Americans believed he had heightened racial tensions in the United States. With his return, these tensions are escalating rapidly.
Missouri should promote second chances.
Trade policy, Trump-onomics and the lesson of a pencil
It’s so toxic it’s banned in 60 countries.
With a new mayor taking office, ӣƵ begins yet another chapter in its long, uneven push toward revitalization. The challenges are familiar: population decline, economic disparity, fractured politics, and struggling public institutions.
'Respect the balance'