Opinion

By DENNIS GRUBAUGH    The year was 1979, and there he was, a baby-faced, 30-something politician wandering through a sea of Democrats inside the Wood River Moose Lodge, shaking hands with most of the people he met.    One of the hands he shook that day was mine. I was a rookie reporter with the Wood River…

By ALAN J. ORTBALS    St. Louis made big news in the world of professional soccer a couple of months ago when the Taylor family of Enterprise Holdings, the top car rental company in the world, and Jim Kavanaugh, co-founder and CEO of World Wide Technology, announced their bid to build a $250 million soccer stadium…