Alert Messenger: Citizen activist renews fight against a 'sad' habit by Missouri legislators Dec 3, 2025 Dec 3, 2025 0 Tony Messenger | Post-Dispatch Metro columnist Author email Follow Tony Messenger | Post-Dispatch Close Get email notifications on {{subject}} daily! Your notification has been saved. There was a problem saving your notification. {{description}} Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. Save Manage followed notifications Close Followed notifications Please log in to use this feature Log In Don't have an account? 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Sign Up Today Related to this story Messenger: Missouri judge makes the right call on legislature's 'Christmas-tree' bills If powerful forces can't get their bills passed the right way through the legislature, should they be able to come in at the 11th hour to save them? Messenger: 51ºÚÁÏ archbishop joins call against 'vilifying immigrants and refugees' “Vilifying immigrants and refugees is not only un-Christian. But I believe it goes against who we are as citizens of the United States.†Messenger: Need state mental health care in Missouri? Get arrested. Every state-run mental health bed in Missouri is being used by the criminal justice system.
Tony Messenger | Post-Dispatch Metro columnist Author email Follow Tony Messenger | Post-Dispatch Close Get email notifications on {{subject}} daily! Your notification has been saved. There was a problem saving your notification. {{description}} Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. Save Manage followed notifications Close Followed notifications Please log in to use this feature Log In Don't have an account? Sign Up Today
Tony Messenger | Post-Dispatch Metro columnist Author email Follow Tony Messenger | Post-Dispatch Close Get email notifications on {{subject}} daily! Your notification has been saved. There was a problem saving your notification. {{description}} Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. Save Manage followed notifications Close Followed notifications Please log in to use this feature Log In Don't have an account? Sign Up Today
Messenger: Missouri judge makes the right call on legislature's 'Christmas-tree' bills If powerful forces can't get their bills passed the right way through the legislature, should they be able to come in at the 11th hour to save them?Â
Messenger: 51ºÚÁÏ archbishop joins call against 'vilifying immigrants and refugees' “Vilifying immigrants and refugees is not only un-Christian. But I believe it goes against who we are as citizens of the United States.â€
Messenger: Need state mental health care in Missouri? Get arrested. Every state-run mental health bed in Missouri is being used by the criminal justice system.
