Stefan Lang of Florissant is raising two girls while fighting deportation back to Germany. He is being deported because his ex-wife filed paperwork withdrawing support for his green card. The action would sever contact between him and his daughters Isabell…

When the history of Barack Obama’s rise to President of the United States is done much of the writing about his early political career will focus on his time as state senator in Illinois.  Too bad I can’t go back into…

Senior Year 1965.

I was working a late shift election night, covering a small watch party in the home of a Ballwin resident.  As soon as CNN projected Barack Obama the president-elect my phone rang -– it was my mother, speechless.

My…

Arriving in Springfield at 7:15 a.m., the morning Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama was scheduled to introduce his long-awaited vice presidential pick, Joe Biden of Delaware. I was not there early enough to get a first-come, first-served spot on the…