Charles Jaco
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Opinion
Jaco: St. Louis’s newest COVID treatment is an expensive right-wing favorite
The choice seems simple: Prevent COVID with a cheap vaccine that’s being offered free, or wait until people catch COVID,…
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Jaco: Missouri’s COVID Taliban wants your kids
Four things happened in the past few days. St. Louis-area kids returned to in-person school; new figures show hospital ICUs…
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Jaco: The racists who want to bring down Kim Gardner have an ally: Kim Gardner
Kim Gardner could be the most transformative circuit attorney in St. Louis history if she would get out of her…
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Jaco: Political vendettas are more important than public health
In a sane world, you wouldn’t need mask mandates. People would think public health was important enough to mask up…
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Jaco: St. Louis is drowning while the lifeguards argue
You’re drowning. As you thrash in the water, you see a huge life preserver on the bank attached to a…
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Jaco: The worst is yet to come as St. Louis hospitals fill with COVID and stupidity
With the St. Louis region facing a new wave of COVID infections that will probably rival the worst of the…
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Jaco: Make the anti-vaxers pay
Covid’s coming back to St. Louis in a big way thanks to selfish unvaxed sociopaths. They should pay. Employers should…
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Jaco: Prison for spreading a virus? Only for HIV, not COVID
Missouri has become America’s very own Third World, with COVID spreading rapidly thanks to everyday people refusing vaccines and political…
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Jaco: Welcome to the death lottery; wanna play?
The St. Louis Urban League isn’t usually known for anti-gambling activism. But their “All In” campaign launched this week is…
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Opinion
Jaco: COVID selfishness, conspiracies endanger vulnerable Missourians, St. Louisans
We hadn’t seen my mother-in-law at her nursing home for a year because of the COVID lockdown. She’s vaccinated. We’re…
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Opinion
Jaco: Racist cops mean more crime, less effective law enforcement: The Isom dilemma
Interim Public Safety Director Dan Isom uses the same calm tone talking about racist officers in the St. Louis Metropolitan…
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Jaco: Missouri Trumpworld’s idiot theater casts St. Louis as the villain
As we approach sort-of-normal, at least for sane St. Louisans who’ve been vaccinated, theater is back. The Muny. Shakespeare in…
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Jaco: Missouri diverts tax dollars for the needy to anti-abortion extremists
The pro-Trump Tea Party white “populist” rage that fuels Missouri’s governing GOP super-majority has kept one principle from the old…
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Jaco: A ground-breaking deal is good news for the three cities of St. Louis
A ground-breaking deal between the city and developers of the City Foundry project promises to funnel $1.8 million into a…
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Jaco: Racist cops are bad cops. There are too many in St. Louis
The same week that marked the first anniversary of George Floyd’s murder by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin also marks…
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Jaco: Tired yet of Missouri stealing your vote?
The Missouri Home for the Criminally Insane — you know, the one in Jefferson City with a dome where the…
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Jaco: Red state, blue city, dark future? How the cure for Missouri is St. Louis
It should be no surprise that an organization whose motto is “Eek! Negroes!,” whose attitude toward facts and science is…
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Jaco: The liar’s lesson plans for our schools
Missouri didn’t invent racism. But, like baseball, we perfected it. It’s no surprise that extremists both in and out of…
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Opinion
Jaco: White nationalist fear in your kid’s school
History, Napoleon wrote, is a lie agreed upon. White nationalists in the Missouri General Assembly won’t read Napoleon in the…
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Opinion
Jaco: Mayor Jones takes over Bloodbath City
St. Louis may end up being in decent shape if Mayor Tishaura Jones inherited her old man’s b.s. detector. So…
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Jaco: Rural Missouri GOP’s race and class war against St. Louis
Rural and white-flight exurban Missouri GOP lawmakers in Jefferson City couldn’t say “ni**er,” “fa**ot,” “k*ke,” “”sp*c,” “g**k,” “r*ghead” or “ni**er-lover”…
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Opinion
Jaco: To save St. Louis, Mayor Jones needs to do the math
St. Louis’ first Black woman mayor is a finance geek and public policy wonk. To save St. Louis when she…
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Jaco: Bad verdict. Bad cops. Bad police force
No group in America has done a better job of defunding the police than the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department.…
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Jaco: St. Louis’ next mayor: the worst job in Missouri
Why bother? No, seriously. Pound for pound, St. Louis is America’s most murderous city. Its percentage loss of population and…
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Jaco: St. Louis’ vaccine hunger games, sponsored by Qpublican extremists
Gov. Mike Parson and his politicized “health” department crowing about Missouri’s “balanced” approach to COVID is like an arsonist hired…
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Opinion
Jaco: Another dead child, another spasm of thoughts and prayers
The 9-mm bullet, made of lead encased in a alloy of copper and zinc and weighing about half an ounce…
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Coronavirus
Vaccine-help group faces charges of politics, censorship
A Facebook group hailed by local media for helping St. Louisans find vaccination sites for scarce COVID-19 vaccines is facing…
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Opinion
Jaco: St. Louis changes course; most eligible voters don’t care
Whether St. Louis’s profound shift toward progressives in the March 2 primary can solve the city’s metastasizing problems is debatable.…
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Business
New mayor will inherit an old city death spiral
At the current rate of population loss and decay, St. Louis will cease to exist except as a collection of…
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Coronavirus
Jaco: COVID confusion due to crackpot ideology
I got my COVID-19 vaccine by accident. As a certified geezer (70, cardiac pacemaker, blah blah blah) I wanted to…
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