By Melissa Fitzgerald
A courtroom is not a place where you would expect to find scenes of celebration and tears of joy. Unless, of course, it is drug court.
This May, over 3,000 drug courts and other treatment courts nationwide will celebrate National Drug Court Month and the most successful justice innovation in American history.
Editorials
They’re not scary, they are scared
By Vince Hillyer
There’s no tougher job than being a parent. I think about that every day. While I’m busy raising my own, I also lead an organization that’s busy raising some of yours. What in the world am I talking about?
Honest labeling of fake meat may soon be required
By Eric Bohl
Missouri may soon become the first state in the nation to require food marketed as “meat” to be harvested from an actual animal. This seemingly obvious definition has actually become quite blurred in recent years. Innovations in food science have led to new products that imitate meat but come from either plants or lab-grown tissue.
My fight to get transparency for Missourians
By Claire McKaskill
Several years ago, I started to work on what I thought was a pretty commonsense, simple proposal: the government should be open and transparent with taxpayers about how it’s spending their money.
Join the lifecycle of a community bank
By Scott Perkins,
FCNB President & CEO
If you’ve ever participated in career day at a local elementary school, you’ll probably relate to this story. A banking colleague visits her son’s kindergarten class and amid explaining the role of a banker, one eager child pipes up and says, “It’s like the lifecycle of a plant!”
Hannity hassle: Let’s apply ‘The five Ws’ and ‘How’
By Gene Policinski
Inside the First Amendment
If the burning national question of the moment is whether Fox News Channel star Sean Hannity is a "journalist" or not, let's use the long-held set of journalistic questions to investigate: The proverbial who, what, when, where, why and how?