Editorials

Mike Pompeo is pushing the conspiracy theory that COVID-19 is manmade, even though the intelligence and scientific communities contend it emanated from an outdoor market in Wuhan, China. Nope, says Pompeo. Conniving scientists at a…

Many people have a wide array of opinions about how to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic appropriately. Furthermore, they seem interested in expressing those opinions on social media. No matter where you fall in the spectrum…

Don Shula — hands down the Miami Dolphins’ greatest coach — was living proof that good is great, but that perfect is priceless. Twenty-five years after he retired, Shula died Monday at 90 with the…

Nursing homes are asking state lawmakers to shield them from lawsuits related to the explosion of coronavirus cases in senior-care facilities. Meatpacking plants are making the same request. No one doubts the difficult job those…

Missouri Gov. Mike Parson made national news for all the wrong reasons when the state became the first in the nation to allow concerts and live events to resume this week. Inexplicably, the governor’s “Show…

If all goes really, really well, we can expect to have a vaccine for COVID-19 sometime in 2021, according to Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Scientists are…

I have been asked a lot about social isolation associated with shelter at home orders and social distancing causing anxiety and depression since Governor Kelly’s emergency declaration due to coronavirus on March 12. Clearly, this…

We have made clear in previous commentary that mail-in voting should play an important role in our democracy going forward. Although the state Democratic Party has smartly adapted that strategy for their primary this month,…

In the past several weeks, our world has been rocked. The COVID-19 pandemic changed practically every aspect of our lives. Together, we’ve faced extraordinary and unprecedented challenges. This very serious virus has attacked the elderly,…

It’s long been a myth that conservative-leaning states are better at fiscal management and as such “carry their own weight.” Conservatives leaders — specifically Sen. Mitch McConnell and President Donald Trump — are spinning that…