Opinion

Uncertainty abounds as Missouri prepares for ’24 presidential caucuses

1 year ago By Evan Lasseter

Missouri voters will face something unfamiliar when it comes time to nominate their party’s presidential candidates in 2024. Gone are the days of arriving at a polling place during a primary election and casting a vote in private.

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Nonviolence is the best antidote to political violence

1 year ago By News Staff

Aquilino Gonell felt rage. The U.S.

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Civic skills we need to keep our democracy

1 year ago By News Staff

As primaries roll out around the country, we’re tracking voter turnout. Raised on “Schoolhouse Rock’s” cartoon civics lessons, I know that being a good American means voting.Those 1970s cartoons weren’t wrong.

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Voters need a better system for candidate selections

1 year ago By News Staff

To the Editor: A significant number of Americans are concerned about our current system of electing those who represent us. Many, if not most, of us deeply believe that changes must happen in order to give us confidence that we can support candidates whose views and goals reflect our own.

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The lost conversation of civil discourse

1 year ago By News Staff

Eight days of rafting down the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon with my daughter promised to be an exceptional experience. Introducing myself to a fellow voyager, a Texan, I joked that surely Texas wasn’t really planning to secede, because it would be a pain to have to obtain a visa to visit Austin.

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Why would I talk to them?

1 year ago By News Staff

As we look at the pictures from Uvalde, Texas; Buffalo, New York;. and other mass shooting sites, we’re having agonized conversations.

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Attorney says client should not face trial man shot to death

1 year ago By News Staff

Your editorial of 13 May, 2022, regarding my client Jacqueline Peterson demands that charges be filed in the shooting of her abusive husband. It reminds me of a film in which the supporting characters wail that they must do something. The lead character reminds them that, no, they must do the right thing.

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Young adults face declining economic, educational opportunities in United States

1 year ago By News Staff

For 33 years, my organization has been sounding the alarm about the declining fortunes of young adults. The words of the 1988 Forgotten Half report are eerie today: “One of the cruelest myths of contemporary American life is the claim that our economy is healthy because unemployment is relatively low.”

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Thoughts, prayers, thoughts, prayers, thoughts

1 year ago By News Staff

Thoughts and prayers are the least that should be provided following the latest among dozens of mass shootings across this nation during the past 20 years. Unfortunately, the least is the entirety of what will be offered by the pro-gun lobby and their lackeys in Congress after the massacre May 23 at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, population 1,600.