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Roland Klose

Roland Klose

editor / writer


James Neal Primm

  • 01/23/2026

    Six months …

    Six months …

    Here are random discoveries (and a few thoughts) since I quit the newspaper six months ago. Posting here to help remember — and because this is searchable. Continue reading

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    Abraham Lincoln, Abu Ghraib, Appeal to Reason, Choctaw Nation, Cyrus the Great, Denmark, Donald Rumsfeld, Dr. J.H. McLean, E.W. Scripps, Frankenstein, Friedenswald, gambling, geckos, George Rogers Clark, George Shoaf, Goethe, Gooseville bear, Greenland, Henry Kissinger, Israel Zangwill, J.A. Wayland, James Neal Primm, Jesse James, Jim Running Deer, John and James McNamara, John Berry Meachum, John Locke Scripps, John S. Thurman, Joseph Keppler, Kentucky Night Riders, Lee and Lyn Wilde, Louis C. Stukenborg, Mallinckrodt, melting pot, Meriwether L. Clark Jr., monkey mind, Moon Motor Car, Orrick Johns, Owen T. Bugg, Pruitt-Igoe, Puck magazine, Rabbi Samuel Schulman, raccoons, Robert C. Pate, Robert Hyland, Robert Minor, Rose Cecil O’Neill, Silesia, Snatchgobble Bilque, Tarzan, Upton Sinclair, W.C. Durant, Washington University, William Marion Reedy, Wittenberg

About Me

Journalist currently based in Missouri. Stops include the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The Commercial Appeal, and The Tampa Tribune. More about me here and here. Other sites: The Rust Brothers, Letters from G.I. Bill, and Red Kane kills the Yellow Kid. Find photos here and here. Links to social media here and here.

Recent Posts

  • Six months …
  • ‘Enslaving demand of the dollar press’
  • Yesterday’s world of tomorrow
  • Last call for the Morning Call
  • Dead man talking
  • The Klan and the GOP
  • Rebuilding trust
  • ‘Violently in love with her profession’
  • ‘Bulldog tenacity’
  • ‘Limiting free speech’
  • A ‘skin game’
  • Ghosts in the machine
  • ‘Vanished like a dream’
  • ‘None but a jackass or poltroon’
  • A town without police, courts, crime or taxes
  • The Missouri editor whose bigotry outlived him
  • ‘I can’t save you unless you do what I say’
  • Morphine eaters, whiskey drunks, eccentrics
  • ‘No dictation from any central authority’
  • Once again ‘an organ of gold-buggery’
  • ‘Refusing to obey orders’
  • Dubious milestone
  • ‘Something must call from within’
  • ‘The tariff is a tax’
  • Population and crime
  • I have seen the future, and it’s perplexing
  • ‘Marienlied’
  • Afraid of being alone? You’re not alone.
  • Moonstruck
  • ‘Our parasite class’
  • ‘Home city’
  • Flashback
  • ‘Memorial to St. Louis abandoned’
  • ‘We are governed by boodlers’
  • ‘Almost fantastic’
  • Cat boxing, floaters, St. Louis orangutans, UFOs, dumb cops, Hitler sightings, and other minutiæ 
  • The Republican’s ‘joke’
  • Madness, dissipation, despair
  • From the ‘scrapbooks’ of JPII
  • ‘Purely a human contrivance’
  • ‘There was great rejoicing in hell this morning’
  • White riot, 1920
  • ‘He studied nothing, but knew something about everything.’
  • ‘Simply a business proposition’
  • ‘No feeling of jubilation manifested’
  • Watermelons and Prophets
  • Filling in the blanks
  • ‘The baby burner’
  • ‘Land of opportunity’
  • The dynamite plot
  • Jerry the smoking St. Louis orangutan
  • ‘St. Louis is a slum city’
  • Depressingly consistent
  • Then and now
  • ‘American money’
  • A ‘network of surveillance’
  • ‘The house where Eugene Field was not born’
  • 100 years of disappointment
  • ‘Bad form for a Granite City policeman’
  • ‘No business in America … is more precarious’
  • Robert Lemen
  • Bob Minor’s last year in St. Louis
  • Jinx Rag
  • ‘What’s the use of living if you can’t help somebody else?’
  • The armadillo in all of us
  • Newsboys
  • Reviews
  • The homicide record: ‘A truly terrible state of lawlessness’
  • ‘Morning is breaking. Everyone’s waking.’
  • ‘Pockets of volume.’ ‘Packing a punch.’ ‘Hearts go out.’ ‘Worst nightmare.’ ‘Devastating.’
  • ‘Meet me at the fair’
  • First uses
  • Names
  • Hammer heads for hacks
  • Time and space
  • ‘That’s all there is. There isn’t any more.’
  • ‘Bashful St. Louisans’
  • ‘Still a going piece of journalistic debauchery’
  • ‘Fully engaged’
  • How ‘Santa’ ended up buried in St. Louis
  • ‘Only one Santa Claus’
  • Christmas in St. Louis
  • ‘Nothing gray, nothing in between’
  • A whale of a fail
  • ‘A society composed of consumers, not citizens’
  • ‘A growing problem’
  • School or cemetery
  • ‘Those fellows just won’t let things be’
  • ‘To tell the truth’
  • ‘Quando voglio’
  • Prelude No. 2
  • ‘Jerusalema’
  • ‘A tale told by an idiot’
  • Constructive criticism
  • ‘Three papers united in one’
  • ‘A seething throng’ in downtown St. Louis
  • ‘A full-fledged insurgent’
  • ‘Anti-social media’
  • ‘Real news’
  • Porta il luce …

OLDEST Posts

  • The bottom line: Business news staffing takes a hit
  • Minsky’s moment: He gets props for describing bubble
  • Being Lincoln: Fritz Klein talks about life as an impersonator
  • ‘This beautiful thing’: World will end, just not yet
  • Did Ameren pay a whistleblower to shut up and go away?
  • Imagination at work: Remembering better times at GE
  • Midwest grape growers note rising temperatures
  • A Depression-era perspective on public welfare
  • Will books become just a memory?

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