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Sentenced to 241 Years as a Teen, Bobby Bostic Wins Parole

4 years 6 months ago

A Missouri man sentenced to 241 years in prison for crimes committed when he was just sixteen will be released next year after a quarter-century behind bars.

The ACLU announced today that 42-year-old Bobby Bostic has been granted parole.…
Ryan Krull

Capitol Perspectives: Personal attacks in Congress versus Missouri 

4 years 6 months ago

The recent personal and racially tinged partisan attacks by a couple of U.S. House members, and the absence of swift discipline, stands in stark contrast to how legislators treat one another in Missouri’s General Assembly. This contrast reminded me of a speech by the late Sen. Richard Webster made on the night of his final […]

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Phill Brooks

The war on drugs failed. Will ‘radical compassion’ work?

4 years 6 months ago

This story was originally published by the Riverfront Times. It is not available for republication.  A few months ago, Kevin FitzGerald was driving along Interstate 44 toward St. Louis when his iPhone buzzed. FitzGerald picked it up. The voice on the other end: A man in his early twenties in Ontario, Canada, who had just […]

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Mike Fitzgerald