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Danforth: 'Something is really wrong here' after Schmitt's 'Let's go, Brandon' speech

2 years 10 months ago
An elder statesman of Missouri politics is weighing in after Attorney General Eric Schmitt's comments this weekend at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) where Schmitt used a phrase that has a well-known double meaning. "Let's go fight. Let's go win. Let's go, Brandon. God bless America," the Republican candidate for U.S. Senate said as he concluded his remarks from the stage. Monday, Schmitt shared a clip of the comments on his campaign Twitter account with the phrase that doubles…
Casey Nolen, KSDK

MLB pushes labor-deal deadline to Tuesday for March 31 start

2 years 10 months ago
Major League Baseball extended its deadline for salvaging opening day and a 162-game season until Tuesday at 5 p.m. after a marathon of 13 bargaining sessions over 16 1/2 hours produced progress toward a deal but left the sides still far apart.
Associated Press

Push for expanded Missouri gambling puts casinos, video operators in opposing camps

2 years 10 months ago

Approving video lottery would produce more than 10 times the new state revenue of sports wagering and drive cash-prize video games of debated legality out of Missouri, a newly updated report contends. The report, prepared by Morowitz Gaming Advisors LLC and Global Gaming & Hospitality Capital Advisors LLC and paid for by companies that hope […]

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Rudi Keller

Europe is again at war. The example Ike set is more important than ever | Opinion

2 years 10 months ago

There’s a lot of talk these days about leadership, but damned little of the stuff to be found. Never have we needed effective leadership more than now, as we watch Russian tanks rumble into Ukraine, in the biggest military offensive since World War II. The number of troops, estimated at up to 190,000, is about […]

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Max McCoy

Do salmon have rights?

2 years 10 months ago
A legal battle between Seattle and the Sauk-Suiattle Indian Tribe could test the Rights of Nature movement.
Joseph Lee

The Inflation Conundrum

2 years 10 months ago
There is a lot that can be done to restrain prices that doesn’t sandbag the recovery with higher interest rates.
Robert Kuttner