Posted 4:37 pm Fri., 09.03.10
St. Louis Comptroller Darlene Green says she will campaign against Proposition A and will help raise money to defeat the Nov. 2 statewide ballot proposal, which would bar Missouri communities from imposing earnings taxes, and require local authorization votes in the two cities who already have them: St. Louis and Kansas City.
Posted 11:38 am Thu., 09.02.10
Eighty-one-year-old Manuel Torres (right) and 22-year-old Pamela Vanegas are likely friends. They met through the New Americans program at Bi-Lingual International Assistant
Services, or BIAS, a non-profit that works with elderly immigrants. Vanegas tutored Torres to pass the test for U.S. citizenship -- and in the process developed a newfound appreciation of her Hispanic heritage.
Updated 3:06 pm Thu., 09.02.10
Paideia Academy, which had planned to open its school year the day
after Labor Day despite having lost its charter to operate, won't be
opening after all.
Fred Robinson, president of the school's board, said Thursday that an
effort to secure financing for the school had not worked out, so it
would not be accepting students, at least for now.
Posted 2:28 pm Thu., 09.02.10
As the 100th anniversary of the birth of Tennessee Williams approaches in March 2011, Francesca Williams, his niece, has started a drive to have a new statue of the playwright sculpted by Don Weigand and placed in Forest Park. She kicked off the campaign as part of the celebration of a personal milestone - a half century.
Updated 1:05 pm Fri., 09.03.10
The St. Louis area could create more jobs if a greater portion of its transportation funding went to mass transit rather than to building roads and highways, a new study by the Public Policy Research Center of the University of Missouri-St. Louis shows. St. Louis spends so few of its transportation dollars on mass transit -- only 15 percent -- that it landed at the bottom of a list of 20 cities examined in the study.
Posted 10:43 am Thu., 09.02.10
"The American" is by no means a great movie, but it is suspenseful and sufficiently original to hold our interest. And George Clooney both underacts and provides the emotional depth to carry the movie.
Posted 3:17 pm Wed., 09.01.10
As the fall sports season gets underway, local youngsters scatter across football fields, soccer pitches and
softball diamonds -- and orthopedists send a message to players, parents and coaches. Too many young athletes are succumbing to injuries that are
preventable, simply because they're participating in playing and
training regimens that are too intense for their young bodies. Overuse injuries are the most common. (Photo from sxc.hu )Posted 11:01 am Wed., 09.01.10
Ron Powers (right) returns to St. Louis with a new play -- "Sam and Laura" -- that tells the story of Samuel Clemens' inspirational, platonic romance with then 14-year-old Laura Wright. Laura was not only the inspiration for Becky Thatcher, she evidently helped the 22-year-old Clemens through a rough emotional period. A staged reading will be given Friday and Saturday at the Gaslight Theatre.
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AmerenUE files for $263 million rate increase: If approved it would increase rates about 11 percent for Missouri customers across all rate classes. | St. Louis Business Journal
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Earthquake registering 7.4 strikes New Zealand's South Island: No tsunami alert was issued and there were no reports of injuries. | AP
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In wake of jobs report, Obama pledges to introduce "broader package of ideas" to fix economy: He said jobs are being created, but not as fast as they need to be. | Wall Street Journal
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Unemployment rate rises to 9.6 percent as U.S. loses 54,000 jobs in August: Weak hiring by private employers wasn't enough to keep pace with a large increase in the number of people looking for work. | AP
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Sexual assault charges divide Amish community in northeast Missouri: Investigators claim that Chester Mast has victimized at least six girls, ages 5 to 15, over the past 10 years. | New York Times
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Head of Illinois prison system resigns: Michael Randle had been criticized for his handling of an early release program that freed some inmates who then went on to commit new crimes. | Chicago Sun-Times
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Five seek Missouri casino license: Besides two applications for spots near Chain of Rocks, the Gaming Commission got two bids for casinos in Sugar Creek near Kansas City and one for Cape Girardeau. | STLtoday
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Alternative energy group makes offer to buy ex-Chrysler plant in Fenton: The identity of the potential buyer was not released by the St. Louis County Economic Council, which made the offer public. | KWMU
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Before recent recall, egg producers were defending against animal cruelty charges: Cage-free eggs are nearly twice the cost of eggs laid by birds penned in battery cages. l Washington Post
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MIT develops robots to clean up oil after spills: The small robotic cleaners can get into tight spaces unreachable by larger devices. l Los Angeles Times
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New test for TB would revolutionize diagnosis and treatment in U.S. inner cities and poor countries: A two-hour test can verify the presence of tuberculosis and determine if the strain is resistant to the most common treatment. l Associated Press
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Mentally-stimulating activity delays onset of Alzheimers followed by a more rapid decline: The trade-off may be a shorter length of time with the disease. l Science News
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A reception for “(dis)Mantle,” an installation by Jill Downen will be from 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Sept. 25 at the Luminary, 4900 Reber Place. The show will run through Oct. 30 Open Wednesday-Saturday from 12-6 p.m. This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
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The first performance in the stylus concert series at the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, 3716 Washington, will take place at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 14 & 15. Kurtag's Kafka-Fragmente, op. 24 will be performed by soprano Susan Narucki and violinist David Halen. Doors open at 7 p.m. Tickets, $10-$20, can be purchased through the Symphony .
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Have "Coffee with the Presidents" -- Peter Wyse Jackson and Peter H. Raven, that is -- from 9-10:30 a.m., Sept. 25. at the Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Blvd. www.mobot.org
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Arianna String Quartet kicks off 2010-11 concert series at 8 p.m. Sept. 10 at the E. Desmond & Mary Ann Lee Theater at the Touhill with works by Dvoak, Shostakovich and Schubert. $23. www.touhill.org or 314-516-4949.
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Why do tea partiers oppose government regulation? One would think that the populists who lament the alleged decline of their economic status -- and America's real economic decline -- might want to stop the big players from repeating their excesses. Amazingly, they don't. | Froma Harrop/Rasmussen Reports
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Blago watch: The government can ask for five years for Rod Blagojevich, but it shouldn't. | Harlan Protass, Salon
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GOP shouldn't start crowing about victories just yet: Generic Republicans may beat generic Democrats in a poll, but candidates run against real opponents, not generic ones. | Susan Estrich/Rasmussen Reports
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My name is Glenn Beck, and I need help: Beck is right about many things, but he also is messianic and betrays the grandiosity of the addict. | Kathleen Parker/Washington Post
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Posted 5:00 am Thu., 09.02.10
Beacon ColumnistsFree markets could chase out shoddy producers. But M.W. Guzy says that fact is scant consolation to the families of those who died of food poisoning.
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In the NewsPlanning for a trip to Mongolia, even if you already in Dalian, China, must be undertaken with care -- particularly when Woodson Gannaway plans to spend no more than $550.
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Beacon ColumnistsKira Hudson Banks asks whether the rally was meant to "reclaim" civil rights or dismiss them?
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Posted 5:25 pm Fri., 09.03.10
In this week's Beacon Roundtable, Dick Weiss, Dale Singer, Mary Delach Leonard and Kristen Hare sit down to talk about a surprising amount of development going on in Downtown St.…
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Posted 1:40 pm Fri., 09.03.10
While we want you all to take time to sit down with the Beacon, Development Director Peter Franzen urges everyone who can to get out and walk and find other…
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Posted 12:57 pm Wed., 09.01.10
The film studios have to be fatigued from the ups and downs of another cycle of Summer! Movie! Blockbusters! Certainly, filmgoers have had enough of less-than super heroes.
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