Phill Brooks
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Opinion
Opinion: A dysfunctional legislative session
The 2022 regular session of the Missouri General Assembly was the most dysfunctional I can remember in more than 50…
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Opinion: Missouri Congressional redistricting has long been divisive
The extended Missouri Senate filibusters about congressional redistricting is a reminder about how bitter and divisive this issue can be.…
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Opinion: Missouri Legislature is targeting education
This year’s session of Missouri’s legislature has been flooded with measures to control what local public schools must do or…
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Opinion: The profound change in Missouri’s legislature
This column is prompted by a question from a long-time statehouse observer as to why Missouri’s legislature has become so…
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Opinion: A perspective on Gov. Parson’s unprecedented attacks on journalists
I begin this column with a confession. We journalists are reluctant to report about ourselves because under journalism ethics, a…
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Opinion: Governor’s charge of a journalist hack is outrageous
I’m writing this column after one of the most vicious and unfounded attacks I’ve heard by a Missouri governor against…
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Opinion: Medicaid’s financial history in Missouri
There is a fascinating history to Missouri’s recent special session to fix the legislature’s failure to continue one of the…
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Capitol invasion hit journalists hard, too
This column is prompted by the pictures of the Capitol assault that triggered fond memories of where I had been…
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