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Made it home today after 8 days at Mercy on Ballas. Excellent treatment from top to bottom. So good to be home! My column about my health care journey: www.stltoday.com/news/local/c... (PS: Pay Nurses!)

There is something about seeing the cover of your book for the first time that makes it real. The Ferguson Decade: How One City’s Uprising Opened America’s Old Wounds, published by @StMartinsPress, comes out Feb. 2, 2027. Please pre-order it here: us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

Messenger: Judge cuts through false narrative on state takeover of St. Louis police www.stltoday.com/news/local/c...

Messenger: The St. Louis police board pleads the Fifth, dodges tough questions www.stltoday.com/news/local/c...

Messenger: A plan to reduce homicides in St. Louis is working. Can it be sustained? www.stltoday.com/news/local/c...

Messenger: Reforming court fees has saved Americans billions of dollars www.stltoday.com/news/local/c...

Messenger: Appeals court rebukes judge who added politics to Missouri immigration case www.stltoday.com/news/local/c...

Messenger: Invest in people with criminal records? To reduce violence, it's worth the risk www.stltoday.com/news/local/c...

Messenger: A St. Louis 'slow flip' victim fights to stay in her home www.stltoday.com/news/local/c...

Messenger: She took on City Hall over solar panels and won. She's fighting again. www.stltoday.com/news/local/c...

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Tony Messenger

The state wants the public to see this as a battle of social media hashtags: #BacktheBlue vs. #DefundthePolice. It's a false narrative.

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Messenger: Judge cuts through false narrative on state takeover of St. Louis police

The people looking to balloon St. Louis' police budget are refusing to show up for hearings where those decisions are justified.

Messenger: The St. Louis police board pleads the Fifth, dodges tough questions

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Since 2018, various changes to law designed to reduce court debts have had a massive positive effect on families, new study says.

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A new St. Louis-based federal judge punished an undocumented immigrant as a "deterrence" to Joe Biden's policies.

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Messenger: Reforming court fees has saved Americans billions of dollars

Messenger: Appeals court rebukes judge who added politics to Missouri immigration case

Investing in people — and yes, that includes people who have been convicted of crimes — is part of the path to reduce violence in St. Louis.

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Messenger: Invest in people with criminal records? To reduce violence, it's worth the risk

Save Lives Now! effort isn't fully implemented but homicides are dropping in St. Louis. Future funding remains elusive.

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Messenger: A plan to reduce homicides in St. Louis is working. Can it be sustained?

“These contracts are designed to fail,” one attorney says. “It’s abusive and predatory.”

Messenger: A St. Louis 'slow flip' victim fights to stay in her home

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“I have a whole ton of issues with telling people that they can’t have solar (panels) just because their house is facing the wrong way."

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Messenger: She took on City Hall over solar panels and won. She's fighting again.