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Anything to avoid talking about gun laws

Tags: Missouri News, Missouri Republican Party, Kansas City Super Bowl parade shooting, Missouri gun laws, Freedom Caucus, immigration

It's not costing Clayton city coffers $1 million a year, and other inconvenient truths

Tags: St. Louis Metro News, Clayton School Board, Caleres, Ray Hartmann, Washington University

And so ends Missouri's latest adventure in science fiction

Tags: Missouri News, Hyperloop, Eric Greitens, Mike Parson, Elon Musk, Missouri hyperloop

Beyond the industry's bad track record, there's no way to make enforcement fair

Tags: St. Louis Metro News, Views & Opinions, Ray Hartmann, red light cameras, automated enforcement, St. Louis Board of Aldermen, traffic violence

And he was a Rockwood School Board member's "sugar daddy"

Tags: St. Louis Metro News, Views & Opinions, Fabian Marta, Sound of Freedom film, Rockwood School District, Sugar Daddy, Jessica Clark

Missouri's junior senator isn't smart enough to understand dummies

Tags: Hartmann, Views & Opinions, Eric Schmitt, Josh Hawley, Missouri politics, crash test dummies, female crash test dummies

You have to see the video version of Missouri’s "Don't Say Gay" bill to believe it

Tags: Hartmann, Views & Opinions, Ann Kelley, Phil Christofanelli, Missouri legislature, Missouri lawmakers, Missouri Don't Say Gay Bill, LGBTQ rights

Complicit politicians continue to distort a situation they helped create

Tags: St. Louis Metro News, Views & Opinions, St. Louis crime statistics, Missouri homicide rates, most dangerous city in Missouri, Missouri legislature, Missouri rape statistics

Councilman’s role as whistleblower lawyer raises eyebrows about case against Wash U trans-care clinic

Tags: St. Louis Metro News, Views & Opinions, Ray Hartmann, Ernie Trakas, St. Louis politics, Missouri politics, transgender care

Republicans' gun bill morphs from attack on Kim Gardner to national punchline

Tags: Hartmann, Politics & Elections, Views & Opinions, Kim Gardner, Missouri legislature, Missouri politics, special prosecutor, toddler gun rights

Lucas Kunce is back on stage with a refreshing dose of populist reality

Tags: Hartmann, Views & Opinions, Josh Hawley, Lucas Kunce, Congressional stock ban, St. Louis politics, Missouri politics

Missouri GOP extremists have found Ground Zero for their culture wars

Tags: Hartmann, Views & Opinions, Rockwood School District, Eureka

A new Missouri lawsuit stands up to zealots who would impose their religion on the rest of us

Tags: Hartmann, Views & Opinions, Abortion Rights, St. Louis, abortion rights

St. Louis cannot save its downtown by betting on dead skyscrapers like the AT&T building

Tags: Hartmann, Views & Opinions, AT&T building, St. Louis, downtown, development, skyscrapers

Andrew Bailey is poised to keep his office friendly to illegal slots and MAGA suits

Tags: Hartmann, Views & Opinions, Andrew Bailey, Missouri attorney general, Josh Hawley, Eric Schmitt, Missouri Republicans

Missouri voters will be asked to ban simple majorities on ballot issues — by a simple majority

Tags: Hartmann, Views & Opinions, Missouri politics, ballot initiatives, Missouri Republicans

How much do you remember from 2022?

Tags: Hartmann, Views & Opinions, St. Louis news quiz, Year in review, 2022

The son of a banker goes full Donald Trump in faking concern for workers

Tags: Hartmann, Politics & Elections, Views & Opinions, U.S. Senate, St. Louis, Donald Trump, Missouri Republicans, Republicans

Through tears, she glorified “traditional” marriage by hating on same-sex love

Tags: Hartmann, Views & Opinions, Politics & Elections, St. Louis, U.S. Congress, Vicky Hartzler, St. Louis Republicans

The Page administration exposes its ugly side by reneging on its pension settlement with Tim Fitch

Tags: Hartmann, Views & Opinions, St. Louis, Sam Page, Tim Fitch, St. Louis County