JUULing: not a healthy alternative
Addiction. When you hear that word what comes to mind? Is it a 15 year old hiding in their high school bathroom vaping out of a flash drive…
July 21, 2019
Opinion
LGBT+ allyship needs to go beyond social media
Liberals flooded Facebook with article shares, likes and sad reacts when high school freshman Nigel Kelly died by suicide last week. Kelly’s suicide was not the first of an LGBT+…
Zoo benefits outweigh moral conundrum
I am proud to tell anyone who visits this city about all the free attractions we have to offer as a St. Louisan of 21 years. The top free attraction,…
Nurses don’t play cards all day
Story by Sue McFarlan As a registered nurse, I have been pondering Wash. Sen. Maureen Walsh’s comment that nurses at critical access hospitals “probably play cards” at work. In context,…
Impossible burger reinvents fast food
On April fools of all days, Burger King decided to announce its trial run of the Impossible Whopper at 59 locations in the St. Louis area only. As a vegetarian…
Green New Deal deserves American support
Climate change, not immigration at the southern border, is a national emergency. We don’t need more border patrol officers stomping their boots around an ineffective wall, we need the Green…
Female college athletes are not second-tier
Story by Kenya Rosabal Scrolling on Instagram one day, I saw the NBA posted a photo of the upcoming WNBA game schedule. As a lover of sports, I was excited…
Stop buying clothes from brands that use sweatshops
Written by Kenya Rosabal Sweatshops are a factory or workshop, especially in the clothing industry, where workers are employed at very low wages for long hours and under poor conditions.…
City-county merger would help revive downtown St. Louis
Written by Warren Rosenblum St. Louisans have turned their backs on the urban core. Not a single major company has moved its headquarters into the city in the past 30…
Better Together plan would not move the city and county forward
Written by Jim Brasfield It is the “Great Divorce.” In 1876 the City of St. Louis separated itself from St. Louis County and the farmers in Clayton. St. Louis was…
Amazon ruins small-town retail businesses
Amazon, Walmart and other shopping monopolies are swallowing the retail business whole. Americans spent a record $7.9 billion online on Cyber Monday, up more than 19 percent from last year’s…
Climate change is a real threat, whether you like it or not
Youth from all over the world skipped school for climate strikes last Friday. The St. Louis Post Dispatch reported that 100 students attended a Youth Climate Strike at the old…
Leave Malia Obama alone
Story by Denton Williams Logging on to Twitter has turned into a game of Russian roulette for me. I never know what kind of posts I’m going to see…
YouTube should not remove dislike button
Mob Rule. Spam. That is what YouTube administration says is ruining its video sharing platform. Their response to this epidemic is to remove the dislike button. Removing a peaceful and…
Oscars nominate problematic movies
I have been a devoted fan of the Academy Awards for years. I have counted down the days to the announcement of nominees and, of course, the Oscars award show.…
Change.org helps democracy
The internet is full of challenges, memes and plenty of other garbage. Among the rubbish that exists on the internet though there are a few websites that shine through the…
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