The U.S. military not only accepts the notion of climate change, its leaders see climate change as a national-security priority. But Congressional climate-change-deniers continue
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In Southern IL, donations talk, defendants walk
The Belleville News Democrat is reporting on a series of defendants whose contributions to a State Attorney’s fund allowing them to walk away from
States lead on immigration, sort of
While Congress stalls over immigration reform, some states are making their own moves. That’s especially interesting because one more typically associates “states’ rights” with
Legislative session shows how states are anachronisms
How generous and gracious it was of the powers that be in the Missouri legislature to designate the final day of the session as
Pruitt-Igoe: Ghosts and survivors of a failed urban policy
Watching “The Pruitt-Igoe Myth” in a packed theater this afternoon was much more than a movie-going experience: It was a history lesson, a fact-finding
U.S. political and financial elites enjoy legal immunity
Glenn Greenwald, in a recent article on Salon, wrote the following: In a 1795 letter, George Washington vowed that, “the executive branch of this
Joan Bray: Still progressive after all these years in Missouri
Joan Bray, of University City, was a Missouri House representative from 1993-2002, and a State Senator from 2003-2010, earning a reputation as one of
The People’s Budget
The People’s Budget is an alternative budget put forward by the co-chairs of the 80-member Congressional Progressive Caucus. In contrast to the Ryan and
City-county mergers: Can Humpty Dumpty be put together?
Some people were duped by a recent April Fool’s hoax showing a map of an improbable merger between the City of St. Louis and
Using back channels: LBJ and Barack Obama
Jeff Greenfield’s historical novel, Then Everything Changed, is a collection of actual facts and plausible alternatives to facts. Without divulging too much about the