For many seniors in Missouri, independence doesn’t mean driving, it means having reliable, affordable options to get where they need to go. Whether it’s a ride to a doctor’s appointment, a trip to the pharmacy or a visit with family across town, rideshare services have become an essential pa…
As we approach Memorial Day this year with an ongoing conflict in the Middle East, we are sure to hear a great deal about sacrifice.
Viktor Orban, the proudly "illiberal" prime minister of Hungary, beloved by various New Right nationalists and MAGA American intellectuals, was crushed at the polls this past weekend.
Wednesday is Tax Day and millions of Americans are looking for ways to make filing less stressful. This year’s temptation is artificial intelligence.
My wife, Pat, and I have lived in Montgomery County, Missouri, since 1980. We chose to live in this rural area because we like peace and quiet, agricultural landscapes, wildlife, and nature’s beauty rather than buildings and industry.
As someone extremely concerned about our future on this increasingly uninhabitable planet plagued by warming, disasters, and war, I’ve had a tendency to let myself feel hopeless. Maybe things will turn around in the next presidential administration, but we can’t afford to wait around and fin…
As an American Catholic who has sat in a church pew my entire life, received the Holy Eucharist, marked more than 50 Lents with ashes, and been taught from childhood that the Pope is the Vicar of Christ on earth, I never thought I would have to say this: The president of the United States ha…
The immediate concerns making today's top headlines are severe and likely long term: the Iran War, inflation, NATO, even the Epstein files are significant challenges facing the U.S. But attention to these block from the public consciousness an issue that is far more dangerous and truly more …
Easter Sunday marks the most sacred day in the Christian calendar. This year, the Catholic Church welcomed its largest class of new converts in a decade. To those newly baptized — welcome home.
Missouri has a choice to make about its economic future. For too long, we’ve relied on an outdated tax structure that punishes hard work, investment, entrepreneurship and risk-taking.
Senate Bill 1002, which passed in the Missouri Senate last week, would place school board elections on the November ballot and would allow candidates to run with a political party affiliation.
🎧 From sports apps to election forecasts, the hosts discuss how expanding betting options influence decision-making, encourage risky habits and blur distinctions between entertainment and serious outcomes.
It is among the most familiar patterns of the Trump era. First, the president says or does something weird, rude or otherwise norm-defying. Some elected Republicans object, and the response from Trump and his minions is to shoot the messenger. The dynamic holds constant whether it's big (Jan…
Missouri House Bill 2641, which seeks to restrict the state's hemp industry, has passed both chambers of the Legislature and now sits on Gov. Mike Kehoe's desk awaiting his signature or veto.
In January, Gov. Mike Kehoe issued an executive order requiring the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) to assign A-F letter grades to schools and districts statewide. Legislation is currently working through both the House and Senate to codify the executive orde…
A shed deer antler becomes an unexpected prompt for reflection on mortality, reverence, and the ethical obligations we owe one another while we're here.
One of the first things I was taught as a docent with the St. Louis Zoo was to verify sources before providing information to our guests, because (Surprise!) not everything on the internet is accurate.
If you have sensed that our politicians are using more vulgarity in public discourse in the last 10 years, you are right.
If you can get your mind off the wars in the Middle East and Ukraine, if you can stop checking your 401(K), which seems to have taken off for the dark side of the moon, if you can turn off the cable news channels and do a quick personal inventory, noting that your arms, legs and enough of yo…
On a recent trip to California, my wife and I spent a day at Manzanar, one of the 10 internment camps the United States established in 1942 to confine 120,000 Japanese Americans. This occurred shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor, when fear of another Japanese assault fueled widespread h…
Every American family deserves to feel safe when they get behind the wheel. Yet every day, mothers, daughters, wives and sisters face a higher risk of serious injury or death in a car crash, not because of how or what they drive but because of how cars are tested.
Do you ever check out at the grocery store and look at your cart thinking, “That’s it?”
Episode 240: In a fast-moving world filled with distractions, it can be easy to lose sight of what truly matters. In this episode, hosts Richard Kyte and Scott Rada explore the idea of reverence — a quality that once shaped how people understood life, but now often feels distant or overlooked.
I have lived in St. Louis my entire life. I have watched this city go through hard times and better times. And I can tell you, without hesitation, that what I see right now is a city gaining real momentum with cleaner streets, falling crime, a government delivering on its basic promises.
Following several resident deaths in 2019, The St. Louis County Justice Services Advisory Board was reconstituted to help identify and address issues at the jail. Since this time, the Justice Services Department, which includes not just the “jail” but also probation and home detention, has m…
St. Charles County has become one of the most desirable places to live in Missouri. Families come here for opportunity, businesses invest here for stability, and our communities take pride in safe neighborhoods and strong schools.
It’s the incessantly repeated theme of the second Trump presidency, and it’s precisely what our Founders tried so hard to prevent: the concentration of power in the hands of one person.
We are having the wrong argument about abortion.
Across the country, in urban centers, small towns, rural communities, and city halls, more Americans are questioning the pace and direction of the artificial intelligence revolution’s expansion.
They still call it the “Great Divorce.” On August 22, 1876, voters went to the polls to decide whether the city of St. Louis would separate from St. Louis County.
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