Opinion: A dysfunctional legislative session
The 2022 regular session of the Missouri General Assembly was the most dysfunctional I can remember in more than 50…
Tag: Phill Brooks
Opinion: Missouri Congressional redistricting has long been divisive
The extended Missouri Senate filibusters about congressional redistricting is a reminder about how bitter and divisive this issue can be.…
Opinion: Missouri Legislature is targeting education
This year’s session of Missouri’s legislature has been flooded with measures to control what local public schools must do or…
Opinion: The profound change in Missouri’s legislature
This column is prompted by a question from a long-time statehouse observer as to why Missouri’s legislature has become so…
Opinion: A perspective on Gov. Parson’s unprecedented attacks on journalists
I begin this column with a confession. We journalists are reluctant to report about ourselves because under journalism ethics, a…
Opinion: Governor’s charge of a journalist hack is outrageous
I’m writing this column after one of the most vicious and unfounded attacks I’ve heard by a Missouri governor against…
Opinion: Medicaid’s financial history in Missouri
There is a fascinating history to Missouri’s recent special session to fix the legislature’s failure to continue one of the…
Capitol invasion hit journalists hard, too
This column is prompted by the pictures of the Capitol assault that triggered fond memories of where I had been…