If Ketanji Brown Jackson is confirmed as a Supreme Court justice, as seems likely, the high court will come closer to reflecting the country’s racial and gender balance than at any time in the nation’s history.
Many of us in America feel a need now to somehow confront the Russian government and its strongman leader Vladimir Putin over the unjust and illegal invasion of Ukraine. And we are gratified to see measures at every level of government do so, from serious economic sanctions leveled by the Biden administration to city-led resolutions to condemn the invasion.
Larry Pearce, Independence To the editor: Well, I guess it was bound to happen. It seems that when things are going well someone says, “Let’s try something else.” For example, when I was younger, I loved to read the “Pogo” series in the (funny) paper.
Family ties are formed in various ways. Some are connected by blood.
It’s hard to know when the congressional redistricting drama playing out in the Missouri Senate will end. A group of senators with a hard ideological edge is filibustering to block a partisan, gerrymandered map with six safe Republican seats in the U.S. House Representatives along with two safely Democratic seats.
Jerry ran a bar called Tom and Jerry’s. I think he figured that helped him with the common touch that’s genuinely useful for a politician, and he was probably right.
DEAR ABBY: I'm a supervisor at my job and have feelings for a married man who also works here. He's lonely and looks to me for attention, companionship, sex and to listen to his troubles. We have only had sex once, but 1 know I cannot continue this "re lationship."
More than a week into Vladimir Putin’s unprovoked and brutal invasion of Ukraine, Russia is isolated at the United Nations, hobbled by unprecedented economic sanctions and stalled in its conquest by the inspiring resistance of Ukrainians.
Missouri’s governmental and political discourse on several major issues has descended from words of inspiration into hateful partisan and ideological rhetoric that leaves little room for compromise.
Marvin Sands, Independence To the editor: Missouri voters almost since the invention of time and especially under our state constitution have had the freedom to petition our government for the purpose of passing laws or reforms that would improve how our state government functions day to day, week to week, month to month and year to year. Generally speaking, initiative petitions are a fundamental right of the people to place upon the ballot issues reserved to the people that would be outside the authority of the General Assembly.