Our environmental safeguards are being decimated by none other than the agency meant to protect us from pollution, the Missouri Department of Natural Resources (DNR). Staff from DNR met secretly with corporations and consulting firms before releasing a proposed rule that would drastically reduce oversight at coal ash dumps by allowing them to continue leaching toxic pollutants into groundwater, rivers, and streams.
The man accused of killing 10 African Americans at a Buffalo, New York, supermarket was virulently antisemitic as well as a racist. Indeed, he blamed Jews for the so-called “great replacement” — a belief based on a racist conspiracy theory that nonwhite people are being used to replace white people.
Thomas Barnes, Overland Park, Kan. To the editor: I am asking Congress to compensate our grossly underpaid disabled veterans fairly this year.
What would you say has been the greatest loss of your life? The death of a loved one? The end of a relationship? A fork in the road that took you to a place you never wanted to go? When you look back on that loss, at the heartache it caused and the time it took to heal, what do you see? Were there lessons you learned? Were there blessings that eased the pain? Did you find yourself feeling thankful, not for the loss, but for the gifts it brought, shining like rainbows in the midst of a storm? Loss always brings gifts. The greater the loss, the greater the gifts.
Ten people were murdered at a Buffalo supermarket last Saturday by an alleged white supremacist who believed in the “great replacement theory,” an absurd racist ideology that claims there is a plot to replace white Americans with people of color.
Analisa Lee, Liberty To the editor: In April, the United Nations climate agency, IPCC, released a report that stated that it’s “now or never” to take action and stave off the worst of the climate disaster. We must reduce greenhouse gases and sink carbon if we are to have a planet where we can live and prosper, and scientists say that the turning point is 2025 -- we either begin lowering or stabilizing the carbon in our atmosphere fully by then or we watch ourselves in a disastrous avalanche we can no longer stop.
The 2022 regular session of the Missouri General Assembly was the most dysfunctional I can remember in more than 50 years covering the statehouse. Endless Senate filibusters stalled action for weeks on major issues for Missourians -- contributing to the second lowest percentage of bills passed in an annual session in more than one-third of a century.
A new analysis in a prestigious journal offers timely reassurance about the COVID-19 shots’ safety and effectiveness to a vitally important but vaccine-hesitant group: expectant mothers. Making safety judgments for two is a daunting responsibility during pregnancy.
When Vladimir Putin stood on a Red Square podium Monday, at the annual celebration of the Soviet victory in World War II over Nazi Germany, he looked weak and defensive. Putin didn’t use his speech, as many were expecting, to formally declare war on Ukraine.
Following the leak of a draft majority opinion, expectations run high that the U.S. Supreme Court soon will overturn the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision affirming the constitutional right of women to abortion, and we have an idea of what abortion foes will target thereafter: pills.