Summer is coming.
Game of Thrones has returned. The epic HBO show began its final season last week after a two-year hiatus. Eager…
Opinion
Jaco: The arithmetic of political change
Missouri’s legislature is run by conservative extremists and rural racists because St. Louis has become too small to stop them.…
The Jaco Report, Ep. 13: Airport privatization study is flawed, transportation infrastructure expert says
One of the nation’s leading experts in transportation infrastructure says the current St. Louis study on potentially privatizing Lambert International…
French: To north side middle-class families, city gov’t says: ‘You’re on your own.’
North St. Louis is as misunderstood as it is under-served. It is home to some of the most beautifully built…
Jaco: Merger backers had better be stocking up on Bondo and duct tape
I owned a 1963 VW bug in college. It was serviceable mechanically, but the body was held together with Bondo…
Jaco: STL County GOP embraces convicted Sheriff Joe Arpaio
Ex Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio, who avoided jail because of a pardon from President Donald Trump, seemed at home among…
Jaco: Extremist agendas in Jeff City affect St. Louis
Missouri has one abortion clinic left, in St. Louis, but probably not for long. It’s illegal to carry a gun…
Reed won. Time to make up and work.
It’s been a week since Lewis Reed defeated both Jamilah Nasheed and Megan Green to win his fourth term as…
Progressives still divided by race, runoffs needed
The division between black progressives and white progressives was on full display during the divisive campaign for President of the…
Jaco: St. Louis is no longer a majority Black city. What’s next?
As black families who can afford to move continue to leave the North Side, and as younger, more affluent, college-educated…
Jaco: A toxic culture in black and blue
Detective Sergeant Heather Taylor is black, and a woman, and a cop, in that order. In her years on the…
The Jaco Report, Ep. 8: Abandoned buildings in north St. Louis — save them or tear them down?
Thousands of buildings in north St. Louis are either abandoned or are collapsing. What’s being done to either save them,…
Jaco: How free-market capitalism and racism wrecked St. Louis
The Municipal League of Metro St. Louis isn’t necessarily racist. But they represent a lot of people who are. One…
The SouthSider endorses…
On Tuesday, March 5, voters in St. Louis City will have an opportunity to select the candidates who will represent…
Jaco: St. Louis cop culture and the real national emergency
The real national emergency is 1,038 miles northeast of the Mexican border, near the corner of Oriole and Thekla, where…
Jaco: Trump’s Hallelujah Caucus scam
When Karl Marx said “Religion is the opiate of the masses,” he had the right idea and the wrong drug.…