Opinion

Body Eight days of rafting down the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon with my daughter promised to be an exceptional experience.

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

Body 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.

Body For 33 years, my organization has been sounding the alarm about the declining fortunes of young adults.

Body 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.

Body I said hello four years ago this month as editor of the Richmond News and Excelsior Springs Standard. Now, I say good-bye.

Body Legalizing the recreational use of marijuana appears likely to get on the Missouri ballot in November, and from there, seems destined to become law. The prediction that the issue will reach voters is based on a claim by Legal Missouri 2022, the group pushing the ballot plan.

Body Change. Something that is completely natural, yet it can be dreaded.

Body Europe remembers the murders, destruction and subjugation of WWII, and history is now repeating itself in Ukraine. NATO countries have to vastly increase their militaries, both defensively and offensively, to thwart Russia.

Body At some point, others who recall the lost world of real conservativism – people who, like me, campaigned and voted for Ronald Reagan, and who cheered George H.W. Bush’s work to create a “kinder and gentler” nation – need to look U.S. Sen.