Editorials

By David Callaway
    When the starting tackle at McKinley High School in Canton, Ohio, showed up at practice one Monday this May, he didn’t realize how bad his week was about to get.

    The staff at Three Rivers Publishing said farewell to a former coworker, friend, and all-around wonderful person last week. Russ New, who worked at the Cuba Free Press for more than 37 years before retiring in 2009, died as he lived—in service to others.

By Phill Brooks
    This year was the second time I've seen the power women legislators can have when they are united. The latest was success of a bi-partisan group of Missouri women senators to force a compromise on an effort to impose strict limits on Medicaid coverage for birth control options.

    Now that Missouri has enough black bears that the Missouri Department of Conservation has decided to allow residents to hunt them, it’s time that all of us become more bear aware and do our part to keep bears that are just “being bears” from becoming “problem bears.”

By Freedom Forum staff, with Gene Policinski, Freedom Forum senior fellow for the First Amendment, and Tony Mauro, special correspondent for the Freedom Forum
    Significant First Amendment cases involving religion, student speech, assembly and press rights were at the top of U.S. Supreme Court decisions in the just-finished 2020-21 term.

By Phill Brooks
    There is a fascinating history to Missouri's recent special session to fix the legislature's failure to continue one of the state's most important financial mechanisms that assures adequate funding for Medicaid health coverage.