Tag: opinion
YOUR LETTERS: Increase teacher pay, give voters a say on shorter...
Two weeks ago, legislation to raise teacher pay and increase investments in kids and classrooms operating a traditional five-day school week was approved in...
YOUR LETTERS: Optimistic for a productive 2024
Shadowed by weekslong gridlock at the beginning, the Senate body is finally debating bills, and I am optimistic for a productive 2024.
Anticipating a constitutional...
OPINION: Be honest about your intentions
By DOUG BECK
Missouri State Senator
D-1st District
(Member, Plumbers, Pipefitters 562)
Recently, in the Missouri Senate we have made tremendous progress in getting people to be honest...
OPINION: Initiative petition ‘ballot candy’ designed to deceive voters
Democratic majority rule by voters will be a dead issue
By DEB LAVENDER
Mo. State Representative
D-98th District
Legislation proposing changes to citizen-led initiative petitions in Missouri is...
YOUR LETTERS: To take away your voice
Republican extremists are so determined to take away “one person, one vote” in Missouri that they deadlocked the State Senate all last week.
The rest...
OPINION: The Labor Movement is empowering working women
By SHARI SEMELSBERGER
Secretary-Treasurer
Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO
Women’s History Month is a time to reflect on the paths paved by women before us, while also recognizing...
OPINIONS: Time for the Electoral College to go?
By ROBERT REICH
Inequality Media
Civic Action
In the 2000 election, George W. Bush won the White House despite losing the popular vote by 543,000 votes.
It happened...
YOUR LETTERS: We all share the same fight
Recently, the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations and the University of Illinois School of Labor and Employment Relations released data that...
OPINION: It’s time to choose: Democracy or billionaires?
By SONALI KOLHATKAR
As we count down toward the 2024 general election, we should expect to hear from media pundits about candidates and their viability,...
OPINION: A second Trump presidency would make the U.S. economy far...
By MAX B. SAWICKY
In These Times
What could we have to look forward to, or dread, in economic policy if Donald Trump returns to...