While Republican Secretaries of State in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida desperately try to limit access to voting by aggressively purging registration rolls, forward-looking voters’
Category: Missouri region
Legislature overrules, women pay
Earlier this week [Sept. 12, 2012], the Replubican-dominated Missouri Legislature overturned Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon’s veto of a bill that allows employers to deny
Wanted: More masochists in Missouri
Honestly, I think you have to be a masochist to work for social justice in MIssouri. Case in point: the recent effort to get
Freeways without futures
As plans move forward for renovations to St. Louis’ iconic Gateway Arch, a group of local urbanists known as City to River have a
Todd Akin’s colonial-era ideas
Where does Todd Akin get the idea that, when she’s raped, a “woman’s body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down?”
Dear Todd Akin: Get out of my body
Eve Ensler, the award-winning author of The Vagina Monologues, was in the Democratic Republic of Congo when she saw Todd Akin’s “legitimate rape” interview.
Pollster asks: “If Todd Akin dropped out…”
As annoying as robo-pollsters can be, it’s often worth picking up the phone, answering the questions, and sticking with it until the end, because
Aw, shoot! I missed Glock Days again
On July 30, 2012, Catherine Murch shot her two children in her St. Louis-area home and then killed herself, using a 9 millimeter handgun
First get scared, then get steamed
Last week Missouri State Representative Stacey Newman wrote a guest commentary for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch titled “Let’s Talk About Guns.” Fed up with
Hating Bush vs. Hating Obama
During the administration of George W. Bush, I remember feeling a more or less chronic sense of despair and incredulity at the state my