Guest Columns
Speaking in 1910, former two-term president Theodore Roosevelt offered some practical advice that Elizabeth Warren and today’s progressive Democrats would be wise to heed. Although they probably won’t.
Tens of thousands of acres scorched by unstoppable wildfires.
CHICAGO — “I hate math!”
I’m on the fence about this, if you want the truth.
It’s long past time to improve health care access to our state’s most vulnerable populations.
It began with 25 candidates. It’s been reduced by half, yet concern persists among Democrats that the party should look beyond the still standing contenders and seek an individual capable of party unification and persuade him or her to enter the race.
My sister Kris kicked the tar out of Frankie Leper.
In its season opener “Saturday Night Live” did a fine job of skewering political figures who dominated headlines during the show’s summer hiatus. The Trump stuff was funny, but even with new Ukrainian fodder it was routine. The Democratic parodies, however, were fresh and so spot-on that the…
WASHINGTON — It’s fair to say at this juncture that America’s Quid and Ukraine’s Quo have been caught in bed together.
Autumn has arrived. I can’t think of a better time to put priorities back in order.
WASHINGTON — We don’t yet know whether President Trump delayed some military aid to Ukraine as leverage to get Ukraine’s president to reopen an investigation into Hunter Biden. But if we are concerned about U.S. officials inappropriately threatening aid to Ukraine, then there are others who …
“If there’s one thing I can’t stand, it’s a perfect kid. And six of ’em, yecch!”
An invasion from outer space might do America some good.
A question for this moment: If the Earth’s lungs were on fire and the doctor refused to treat it, would there be cause for a third-party intervention?
Andrew Luck, the superstar quarterback who just quit professional football at the tender age of 29, has received mixed reviews from the sports world. Colts fans booed him. And any number of sports writers see his decision to get out of football to avoid more injuries as tragedy combined with…
When I served on the Missouri Public Service Commission, my overriding priority was to ensure that Missouri residents didn’t experience power outages.
Pop quiz: What did Lyndon Johnson in 1968, Gerald Ford in 1976, Jimmy Carter in 1980, and George H. W. Bush in 1992 have in common?
“Sometimes I worry that if I ever can retire and do get Social Security payments, they’ll be a lot less than what I’ve been promised,” I said to my CPA, Louie the Number Cruncher.
President Trump has warned China that it must respond “humanely” to the protests in Hong Kong if it wants a trade deal, for the first time suggesting that the United States would impose costs on Beijing if it launched a Tiananmen Square-style crackdown on the city. It’s about time. China is …
Our sixth-generation, family-owned company has been headquartered in Missouri for more than a century. We supply steel for bridges, buildings and pipelines. Our work has given us a close-up view of the challenges facing U.S. manufacturers due to subsidized imports. Lately, the only good news…
Amidst the latest bloodshed — the worst of it triggered by a white racist domestic terrorist whose El Paso manifesto echoes Trump’s racist rhetoric — I bet you’re jonesing for some good news. I’m happy to share what I have. Admittedly it isn’t much, but at this point we should probably be gr…
These “debates” are to serious policy discussions as a kazoo is to an orchestra. You can say a kazoo is an instrument, and you can say that these truncated thoughts are proposals, but you’ll invite smirks.
Is it safe for me and my wife to return from our vacation in Eastern Europe?
Missouri Western State University is a special place where students can learn, grow and acquire the tools necessary to succeed. As its new leader, now is a perfect time to talk about the university’s impact and the value of a four-year college degree.
WASHINGTON — Here we go again. President Trump appeared to renew his threat to withdraw from the North American Free Trade Agreement if Democrats do not pass his new United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement. His threats may worry pro-trade Republicans, but they are music to the ears of anti-NAF…
WASHINGTON — Thirty months after setting the goal of sending a mission 239,000 miles to the moon, and returning safely, President John Kennedy cited a story the Irish author Frank O’Connor told about his boyhood. Facing the challenge of a high wall, O’Connor and his playmates tossed their ca…
Some people never break the posted speed limit, they gingerly seal it in bubble wrap.
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, who, like nearly everyone, is running for president, presides over the largest and most media-centric city in America.
WASHINGTON — President Trump’s detractors are trying to play down the significance of the U.S.-Mexico immigration deal, saying it is largely comprised of actions that Mexico already had agreed to many months ago.
Fifty years ago this summer, Charles Manson went on a killing spree that shocked the nation and was the ghoulish “gold standard” for heinous crimes. While some killers have been more prolific (like the Rev. Jim Jones) and some have been more photogenic (like Ted Bundy), and some have been mo…
WASHINGTON — The American people are sending a pretty clear message to Washington: They are sick and tired of the investigations into President Trump and don’t want Democrats in Congress to impeach him. But the Democrats aren’t listening.
Like most people, I didn’t think much about my Social Security number — until I got a bizarre call from a total stranger.
The Democrats running the House of Representatives have gone insane — and they prove it every day.
During World War II, of the 500-plus MLB players who served, only two young Americans were killed.
PAWLEYS ISLAND, S.C. — A new United Nations report projecting the extinction of one-eighth of all animal and plant species should rattle the cages of any remaining skeptics regarding climate change and the central role humans have played in Earth’s accelerating destruction.
WASHINGTON — A man who worked in a boxer’s corner in a 1962 match against Cassius Clay, as he still was known, explained why the referee stopped the fight in the fourth round: “Things just went sour gradually all at once.” It can be like that when government dabbles in protectionism.
I hope to be just like my mother one day.
WASHINGTON — If Shakespeare had titled Attorney General William Barr’s appearance on Wednesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee, he would have called it “Much Ado About Nothing.”
With heartbreak, we have watched our friends and neighbors across the states of Iowa, Missouri and Nebraska suffer from the impacts of historic Missouri River flooding, caused by severe winter weather, which included the infamous “bomb cyclone” pattern, leaving behind record river stages, a …
The Trump administration is upping the ante in its war on undocumented immigrants with a new proposal to boot them from public housing — all in the name of helping “the most vulnerable” Americans.
My friend Jack Corrigan, one of the smartest politicos/lawyers I know, saw it right away. He called it “the key punch-pulling passage in the report.” It occurs on page two of volume two, where Robert Mueller says he and his team “determined not to apply an approach that could potentially res…
WASHINGTON — Some government foolishness has an educational value that compensates for its considerable cost.
No wonder Donald Trump was so angry.
WASHINGTON — That Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., went on FOX News for a town hall Monday night was controversial among Democrats. As Sanders told hosts Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum, “Not everybody thought I should come on this show. Your network does not necessarily have great respect in my …
If you’re serious about being a Christian, Easter (like the other 364 days of the year) can be a very demanding time.
Tax season is upon us, which gives us a choice: Laugh or cry. I choose to laugh.
Joe Biden’s explanatory video in response to stories of his sometimes overly exuberant physicality was well-played. He seemed relaxed, sincere, unscripted and, above all, not supine.
The Social Welfare Board is thankful for the physician help provided to its patients.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers manages the Missouri River through the Master Manual, a 432-page document that lays out eight congressionally authorized purposes: flood control, river navigation, hydroelectric power, irrigation, water supply, water quality, recreation, and fish and wildlife…
Growing up in Savannah, I learned that school districts are the backbone of our community. One of the most important issues facing our community is the lack of trust between the school district and the public. Now is the time to rebuild that trust.
Editorials
The image of a homeless person sleeping under a bridge evokes different emotions for different people.
On this day, Nov. 11, let’s take a look at another date that looms large for those who serve in our nation’s armed forces.
St. Joseph is a generous community. That’s a statement of fact based on a history of support for the United Way and its partner agencies.
Tourists in Berlin can buy a little chunk of the concrete wall that once separated east from west during the Cold War.
Here’s a good rule of thumb about regulatory overreach.
The question comes to mind after word that Missouri Western State University is trimming 35 positions.
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. But if that picture is shared thousands of times, does it give a misleading impression of the story behind it?
Today’s election could be viewed as the calm before the storm.
We doubt anyone left the courtroom with a good feeling after the sentencing of Cole Charboneau.
It turns out St. Louis doesn’t need an NFL team after all.
So you’re a big-time college football fan and plan to watch today’s action on TV?
A school bus driver might share a common fate with an umpire in a World Series game.
In just a few hours, ghosts, goblins and Disney princesses will hit the streets in an annual door-to-door quest for candy. It’s all in good fun, an experience that every child deserves.
We understand how a perp walk isn’t always our most popular feature.
America’s top envoy to Ukraine gave testimony last week that was described as explosive in the House impeachment hearings.
We trust that most Missourians would agree with the emerging political consensus to reduce the cost of incarceration. On the state and federal level, sentencing reform enjoys a rare level bipartisan support.
Buchanan County officials took their lumps eight years ago, when they attempted to pass a capital improvements tax extension without a sunset clause.
If you take away the Rocky Mountains, a St. Joseph visitor might feel right at home in Pueblo, Colorado.
A college campus should be a place of risk-taking and new ideas. That may be the case in the lecture hall or the research lab, but a more cautious outlook sometimes permeates the administrative offices.
With the general election just more than a year away, voters are starting to ask more practical questions of candidates.
The St. Joseph City Council breezed through a unanimous vote on indoor vaping Monday night with little discussion from elected officials or the public.
If you’ve ever searched the house for car keys or scoured a backyard for a missing wedding ring, the immensity of Robert Ballard’s task comes into focus.
There are those who will insist that you’re never truly a St. Joseph resident if you didn’t graduate from one of its high schools.
Public confusion surrounding the e-cigarette industry is not an accident. No consumer product has experienced as uneven a level of government scrutiny as electronic cigarettes.
Let’s throw out some well-deserved recognition for this year’s state testing results at Missouri public schools.
U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley must feel a certain pleasure in knowing that his public statements on the Hong Kong protests are striking a nerve.
Despite a missed opportunity on staggered elections, city policymakers are moving in the right direction with proposed changes to the City Charter.
At General Motors, factories remain empty today as striking autoworkers enter their second month on the picket lines.
A venting system on top of the St. Joseph Water Protection Facility is designed to release pressure that builds up inside sewage digesters.
With its hills, its ocean breezes and its chamber of commerce weather, California must have seemed like an absolute paradise.
The impeachment process is a partisan drama right now, with both the left and right staking out predictable positions on whether President Donald Trump should be removed from office. Both tend to see what they want to see.
If a St. Joseph man wakes up in the morning to find that his pickup truck is missing, we’re sure his first thought isn’t going to be about statistics.
Missouri Western State University sits near the bottom of the pecking order for state funding of public higher education.
Missourians won’t have to choose between receiving public benefits and purchasing medical marijuana. That seems fair to us.
It takes roughly 10 minutes to drive from the South Side to a job on the east edge of St. Joseph, perhaps at a business park or Mosaic Life Care.
The first one-way police radio was unveiled in 1928, at a time when the likes of Al Capone bedeviled big-city police departments.
Here’s a Monday morning quiz to kick off your work week: Which industry relies on political support and subsidies to help it compete against Big Oil?
Following the resignation of Richard Nixon and upon being sworn in, Gerald Ford said, “My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over.”
Any modern hospital or doctor’s office, including those in St. Joseph, uses an array of high-end medical equipment for diagnostic and treatment purposes. All this technology doesn’t come cheap.
Sports are able to bring generations together and create lasting connections.
One misconception about trade wars is that they only hurt farmers. Not true.
The battle lines are drawn over efforts to expand Medicaid in Missouri.
For some of us, Monday morning starts with a sense of dread. Or, maybe you’re a glass-half-full kind of person, in which case things don’t start going off the rails until Tuesday or Wednesday.
When President Bill Clinton ordered missile strikes on suspected al-Qaeda camps in Sudan and Afghanistan, one stated goal was to knock out an obscure terrorist named Osama bin Laden.
You say you still believe in the ideal of the amateur student-athlete in big-time college sports?
The photo attached to this editorial doesn’t do justice to the welcome arch erected at Eighth and Felix streets.
The climate change debate should revolve around science.
Here we go again. Another round of flooding looms for farms and communities all along the lower basin of the Missouri River, from Nebraska to St. Louis.
A plume of indignity and whataboutism arises from the vaping crowd as a move to ban flavored e-cigarettes gains momentum.