Opinion
Comment: How to build a stadium and keep taxpayers happy
St. Louis’ MLS stadium, CITYPARK, offers four lessons for communities considering sports arenas.
Opinion
Comment: Our public health system needs preventive medicine
Politics and short-sighted budget cuts threaten the nation’s public health system. It needs your voice.
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Comment: Push for broadband for all will require all players
A federal grant provides much of what the state needs, but there’s work ahead to make it count.
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Comment: Community health groups key to health equity in state
Recent grants of $250,000 from Community Health Centers are funding vital work in uncertain times.
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Comment: Inflation’s track encouraging, but uncertainty looms
As long as leaders don’t throw a wrench in the works, rates should continue their slow decline.
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Comment: Electric push can help Democrats spark climate action
Rather than reject climate efforts as an issue, clean energy should be seen as an enabler of broader…
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Comment: The lines between protectors, vigilantes and killers
Cynicism, caused by frustration with the failings of the ‘system,’ drives support for vigilantes.
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Comment: The problem with legal immigration? It’s broken
Telling ‘illegals’ to immigrate ‘the right way,’ ignores a slow and costly process with a backlog of 2.46…
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Comment: Politicians and public need crash course in economics
A better understanding of inflation, global trade and families’ needs could make all the difference.
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Comment: Lame-duck Congress can still save medication abortion
Republicans have vowed to use the Comstock Act against the pills. Congress should repeal the archaic law.
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Green investments aren’t having a good year, but their focus on the bottom line still makes good financial sense.
By Mark Gongloff / Bloomberg Opinion
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Comment: If you want to be a grandparent, make parenting easier
The birth rate is dropping because it’s difficult to see support for young families.
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Comment: U.S. turns back on climate leadership as crisis deepens
With a disappointing climate summit, the only hope for leadership may be China’s recognition of its duty.
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Comment: HPV vaccine saving lives; RFK Jr. should see that
Studies show its effectiveness in preventing infections and cancer. Discouraging its use endangers lives.
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Comment: Ban on flavored tobacco can keep kids from addiction
Flavored tobacco, including vapes and menthol cigarettes, are seeing heavy use by the state’s youths.
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Comment: State should drop its lawsuit to block grocery merger
Blocking the merger of Albertsons and Kroger could end cost union jobs and fair prices for shoppers.
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Eco-nomics: Juice-hungry AI, IT could disrupt clean energy efforts
Their demand for electricity could drive up prices and slow the transition to clean power sources.
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Comment: Musk’s DOGE plans can’t dodge Constitution
He and Ramaswamy think the Supreme Court will OK Trump’s usurping of Congress’ budget powers. It won’t.
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Comment: Founders may have had the veep’s role right after all
Perhaps we should give the office, and its Senate presidency, to the candidate who finishes second.
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Comment: Patel would hollow out FBI and refocus it on revenge
Kash Patel has talked openly of his desire to use the agency to go after Trump’s political rivals.