Missouri Tort Reform: Abusive Lawsuits Won't Keep Rolling Along

Missouri is central to America – geographically, culturally, and politically. Some of our greatest literature came from Missouri authors (Twain, Eliot, Angelou). Media figures as unifying as Walter Cronkite and as divisive as Rush Limbaugh at one time called Missouri home. American music wouldn't be the same without tenor saxophonist Coleman Hawkins (listen to the 1939 version of "Body and Soul" to hear the essence of Jazz improvisation) and Chuck Berry (who invented rock and roll without any help from Marty McFly). Two of the country's deepest philosophers, Reinhold Niebuhr and Yogi Berra, hailed from the Show Me state. We are grateful for Kansas City barbecue, especially accompanied by the best selling beer in the country, brewed on the other side of the state. (Don't sneer; superchef David Chang says that Bud Light is his favorite beer to accompany food). We also would have found these last few weeks of the Coronoavirus lockdown much more difficult to get through