The entire political world is shocked today by the untimely death of broadcast icon Tim Russert, host of “Meet the Press” and chief of NBC News’ Washington bureau.

Last year, Russert addressed graduates at Washington University, where the man who…

State Senate hopeful Robin Wright-Jones today announced the support of outgoing schools superintendent Diana Bourisaw.

“I support Robin Wright-Jones for her support of public education and the St. Louis public schools,” Bourisaw said in a release from the campaign. “These are…

Ed Martin may have left the public payroll, but not the public eye.

Martin, Gov. Matt Blunt’s former chief of staff, rankled some members of the teacher’s union recently when, in a video commentary on the blog PubDef, he criticized charter school…

Ed Martin might not like to talk too much about the e-mail flap surrounding his former boss, but Gov. Matt Blunt’s erstwhile chief of staff has no shortage of outlets to vent his mostly conservative views.

The young Republican lawyer is…

Mayor Francis Slay used the suspension of a St. Louis charter school to take another dig at one of his most frequent targets of ire — the city school district.

The Can! Academies, located in northwest St. Louis near I-70 and…

Did you catch the front of this week’s Riverfront Times?

It’s probably not what Washington University administrators want parents — many who have spent more than $125,000 on four years of education — to see when they come to town…

Missouri’s Congressional delegation aren’t the only ones sweating redistricting.

Conventional wisdom has the state losing a seat in Congress after the 2010 census. The redistricting, however, could affect another political body - the University of Missouri Board of Curators.

State…

Opponents of educational vouchers have circled finance whiz Rex Sinquefield - whose prolific campaign contributions have altered the state’s political landscape - as enemy No. 1.

But soon they’ll have a chance to take on the spry millionaire at his…

Multi-millionaire Rex Sinquefield, joined by aides and two professors who’ve done studies for his Show-Me Institute, stopped by the Post-Dispatch this morning to lay out some of his views to members of the paper’s Editorial Page.

Yours truly and cohort…