Opinion
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Opinion: A reflection on the deflection used on Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner
In the course of following national and local politics, I have concluded that St. Louis has gone out of its…
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Opinion: The case against Gardner reeks of racism, sexism
As a distant observer of St. Louis politics, I find it very disturbing that the charges filed against St. Louis…
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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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Opinion: Memorial Day sparks memories of war correspondents’ courage
I never fought in the Vietnam War. I joined United Press International, a worldwide wire service, in 1975 at the…
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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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Opinion: When all public schools thrive, our communities will, too
We learned a great deal about the educational needs of our children through this painful past year of the COVID…
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Opinion: What’s behind the CDC’s decision to drop masks for fully vaccinated
In other times, a “masks off” announcement might have been celebrated. Instead, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention stepped…
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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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Opinion: A most unusual legislative session
The 2021 Missouri legislative session was one of the most unusual and unpredictable of the legislative gatherings I’ve covered in…
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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: A potential tax increase looms
One of the fascinating issues for Missouri’s 2021 legislative session has been the idea of a tax increase. You would…
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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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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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Kicking the Medicaid can down the road yet again
The Missouri House refusal to fund voter-approved Medicaid expansion reminded me of a long Missouri legislative tactic of “kicking the can down…
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Compassionate courage can challenge systemic racism – but it’s hard work
It is common to read news of someone getting fired for speaking or acting in ways that harmed members of another race.…
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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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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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Holding Medicaid hostage over birth control defies law and reason
While playing politics with health care in Missouri is certainly nothing new, holding Missouri Medicaid hostage over basic birth control…
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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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Dear Normal: Were you really that great?
Dear Normal, Everyone wants you back. It seems every day of this late-stage pandemic era is marked with someone wistfully…
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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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Celebration of openness has special urgency
A year ago this week, the world descended into the throes of the COVID-19 crisis. It’s fitting that our year…
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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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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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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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Black sororities blaze trail of achievement
In Kamala Harris’ speech at the 2020 Democratic National Convention, she saluted seven women who “inspired us to pick up…
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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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