This is a great opinion article by Tony Messenger, a regular columnist for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, which is one of the nation’s great newspapers. It is an Open Letter addressed to Missouri’s Suburban Moms and written in the voice of the state Republican party. This is the party that loves women so much that it voted to eliminate all abortions, even in the case of rape, incest, or a threat to the survival of the mother. The GOP loves the unborn but ignores the born.
For starters:
First off, and this is really important: We didn’t raise your taxes. As you save to send your children to college, it’s important to us to allow you to spend your hard-earned money the way you want to. Of course, that doesn’t mean college isn’t going to get more expensive. Because we are so committed to never, ever raising taxes, Missouri is among the lowest-funded higher education systems in the country. And that’s why the Board of Curators of the University of Missouri voted to raise tuition 5 percent starting next year. Some might call that a back-door tax increase. Not us.
Speaking of college, if you are sending your daughter to a university in the state — public or private — we want you to know about our efforts to change the federal Title IX regulations meant to protect her from sexual assault or discrimination. We fell just short in our effort to gut those Obama-era regulations this year, but rest assured, we’ll be back at it next year.
It is a wonderful satire that isn’t funny because it is so true.
“which WAS one of the nation’s great newspapers”
The PD is a shell of its former self. Like many large city newspapers it coverage of education issues is one of being a mouthpiece for the edudeformers-one would think that the edudefomers would pay for that kind of coverage.
Messenger can be spot on at times and this opinion piece is one of them, but he generally comes across as a whining snowflake.
Whoa –
Messenger just won a Pulitzer Prize for taking on the jail system in towns across the state.
(ok – more Washington Post news than locally written – and local legislators need more scrutiny but..
Best sports pages in any city!