Editor: The State has put together with the cash-strapped City of St. Louis a multi-million aid package for the Cardinal ownership to build Ballpark Village. There are no guarantees that it will be built or financially successful. In fact, there ...
Read More »Letter to the editor: Missouri doesn’t need an English-language amendment
Although official state business is not always understandable to ordinary Missourians, the reason probably has more to do with bureaucratic rules and jargon than with any language barrier. Nevertheless, the possibility that official state business will someday be conducted in ...
Read More »Let’s start with Senior Tax Justice
After reading several criticisms from opponents attacking the Senior Tax Justice Act, HB 444, I think it is necessary to make some clarifications. It’s hard for me to understand how anyone could oppose a plan to bring needed tax relief ...
Read More »Let’s start with Senior Tax Justice
After reading several criticisms from opponents attacking the Senior Tax Justice Act, HB 444, I think it is necessary to make some clarifications. It’s hard for me to understand how anyone could oppose a plan to bring needed tax relief ...
Read More »Letter to the editor: Diversity Act is anti-intellectual
The “Emily Brooker Intellectual Diversity Act,” HB 213, is scheduled for a vote this week by the full Missouri House. The Act claims it is necessary in order to defend academic freedom and “viewpoint diversity” in public institutions of higher ...
Read More »Letter: Local laws are threatening rural livelihoods
Dear Editor: Missouri’s pork producers are facing challenges that threaten their livelihood. They are already regulated by strict, science-based standards at both the state and federal level. Now, their very existence is being jeopardized by a litany of local regulations ...
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