Tilsen is a retired journalist whose 20-plus-year career included covering local politics and courts in her former home state of Minnesota. She has written for The Associated Press, Reuters, two newspapers and three television stations and is the recipient of four first-place reporting awards. She resides with her husband and mother in Cape Girardeau, MO, where she is a volunteer with the local Humane Society.
It’s one thing to shoot somebody on Fifth Avenue; it’s another thing entirely to slice and dice Republican donors. This realization is
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Last week a group of Missouri high school students apparently launched a petition calling for a return to slavery, which media outlets duly reported. As a resident of the state, I’m disgusted and appalled at this incident but not surprised.
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After the St. Valentine’s Day massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas H.S. in Parkland, Florida, in 2018, then-Governor Rick Scott made sure his craven presence was attendant at numerous press briefings. I remember
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My most vivid memory of Bob Dole will always be a 2000 television interview in which the five-term U.S. senator, standing in front of a Florida polling place, declared without a scintilla
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Last week a group of Missouri high school students apparently launched a petition calling for a return to slavery, which media outlets duly reported. As a resident of the state, I’m disgusted
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It started as most days back then, my husband up early and on the road to his office while I scrambled to get our (then) 13 year old on the school bus,
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It’s a trial but not really a trial, for a president who’s no longer a president, featuring a political party no longer willing to defend democracy itself. Welcome to governance by cult.
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It’s one thing to shoot somebody on Fifth Avenue; it’s another thing entirely to slice and dice Republican donors. This realization is apparently lost on Donald Trump, who nevertheless faces the consequences
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I’ve been reading a lot of commentary this morning on the outcome of Tuesday’s U.S. Senate runoff in Georgia and the reasons behind it. Obviously turnout was key — way to go,
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