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In Southern IL, donations talk, defendants walk

May 24, 2011 Mike Davis Charity & Justice, Courts, Crime/Violence, Government, Missouri region Leave a comment

The Belleville News Democrat is reporting on a series of defendants whose contributions to a State Attorney’s fund allowing them to walk away from

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Legislative session shows how states are anachronisms

May 16, 2011 Arthur Lieber Government, Missouri region, Politics, Voting/Elections One comment

How generous and gracious it was of the powers that be in the Missouri legislature to designate the final day of the session as

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Pruitt-Igoe: Ghosts and survivors of a failed urban policy

May 14, 2011 Gloria Shur Bilchik Charity & Justice, Government, History, Housing, Media, Missouri region 3 comments

Watching “The Pruitt-Igoe Myth” in a packed theater this afternoon was much more than a movie-going experience: It was a history lesson, a fact-finding

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DealerRater to the rescue

May 10, 2011 Stacy Mergenthal Consumer issues, Missouri region 3 comments

In my last article, I told the tale of my recent adventure in the wonderful world of car buying. It was a pretty messy

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150,000 at-risk pre-schoolers await a champion

May 4, 2011 Barbara Finch Charity & Justice, Education, Missouri region, Youth issues Leave a comment

There are more than 300 agencies and organizations in the St. Louis metropolitan area working to provide programs and services for children, according to

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Joan Bray: Still progressive after all these years in Missouri

May 2, 2011 Gloria Shur Bilchik Campaigns, Government, Missouri region, Politics 5 comments

Joan Bray, of University City, was a Missouri House representative from 1993-2002, and a State Senator from 2003-2010, earning a reputation as one of

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City-county mergers: Can Humpty Dumpty be put together?

April 25, 2011 Gloria Shur Bilchik Government, History, Missouri region, Politics 2 comments

Some people were duped by a recent April Fool’s hoax showing a map of an improbable merger between the City of St. Louis and

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“Birther” bills: alive & dead in state legislatures

April 19, 2011 Gloria Shur Bilchik Government, Missouri region, Obama, Politics, Voting/Elections 5 comments

Once again, Arizona is leading the way—backwards. On April 14, 2011, the Arizona legislature passed HB 2177, a “birther” bill that would require presidential

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I’m going shopping, and I’m bringing my gun

April 13, 2011 Bobbi Clemons Civil Rights, Crime/Violence, Government, Missouri region, Violence 4 comments

Before you dash off to the store, you go through that little checklist. (Your list is probably similar to mine.) Wallet? Check. Keys? Check.

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Justice and mercy: a troubling imprisonment deserves attention

March 28, 2011 Barbara Finch Charity & Justice, Courts, Crime/Violence, Missouri region One comment

Today it’s difficult to reconstruct exactly what happened on that hot August night in 1982.  Some details were murky even then.  But here’s the

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