Tim Jones

<p>President Truman laughs as he holds an early edition of the Chicago Tribune for Nov. 4, 1948. The newspaper's headline jumped to an erroneous conclusion as early election returns came in.</p>

Dewey defeats Truman: The most famous wrong call in electoral history

November 3, 2020 at 12:30 a.m.

As a presidential candidate, Gov. Thomas Dewey of New York was not a glad-hander, not a flesh-presser. He was stiff and tended toward pomposity. "The only man who could strut...

The Anheuser-Busch Budweiser bottling facility is seen in St. Louis in July 2015. St. Louis has been contracting since 1950, and the pace accelerated beginning in 2008, when Belgium's InBev bought Anheuser-Busch, putting 2,000 out of work.

St. Louis, city of subtraction, takes bid for Monsanto in stride

June 12, 2018 at 2:48 a.m.

Having watched St. Louis shrink for almost 60 years, Steve Pohlman is resigned to the fate of takeover target Monsanto Co. He ticks off the long list of home-grown companies...

JFK assassination sowed seeds of failure for gun-control efforts

June 16, 2018 at 1:50 p.m.

When a couple armed with assault rifles slaughtered 14 people at a holiday gathering in San Bernardino, California, this month, U.S. gun control advocates saw an opportunity. President Barack Obama...

Iowa farmland sales fetch top dollar, and income gap in rural areas widens

August 23, 2021 at 9:49 p.m.

— Pickup trucks lined a stretch of gravel road where 150 farmers mingled between 7-foot-tall cornstalks and shimmering soybeans to see which of their wealthy brethren would bid on a...

Iowa farmland sales fetch top dollar, and income gap in rural areas widens

December 25, 2018 at 6:29 a.m.

— Pickup trucks lined a stretch of gravel road where 150 farmers mingled between 7-foot-tall cornstalks and shimmering soybeans to see which of their wealthy brethren would bid on a...

Diverse and Democratic

August 22, 2019 at 10:10 a.m.

Few people will remember Thomas S. Gordon, the former head cashier and office manager for the Polish Daily News who, for 16 years, dutifully if colorlessly served his Northwest Side...

Senator challenges VA’s coverage of 3 new illnesses linked to Agent Orange

May 13, 2019 at 8:59 p.m.

A U.S. senator who is also a highly decorated Vietnam veteran has called into question the spiraling costs of disability claims stemming from veterans' exposure to Agent Orange and other...

Michigan’s coast is best by bicycle

August 23, 2019 at 2:51 p.m.

CROSS VILLAGE, Mich. — In the mitten-shaped state of Michigan, there is perhaps no prettier roadway than the squiggly one up north bordering the outer tip of the state's ring...

Michigan’s coast is best by bicycle

May 10, 2019 at 1:40 a.m.

CROSS VILLAGE, Mich. — In the mitten-shaped state of Michigan, there is perhaps no prettier roadway than the squiggly one up north bordering the outer tip of the state's ring...

Raw milk: Personal decision or public danger?

August 23, 2021 at 2:56 a.m.

Most of the milk from the dairy cows on South Pork Ranch ends up pasteurized — heat-treated to reduce the chance that the people who drink it will get sick....

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