Eddie Roth writes about education, social justice, public safety, transportation, legal affairs and historic preservation. He joined the Post-Dispatch editorial page in 2008 after six years as an editorial writer with the Dayton Daily News. But he is not new to St. Louis. Eddie grew up in Webster Groves and south St. Louis County. He's a lawyer who for many years practiced with a downtown firm, and was active in civic affairs, including serving a term on the St. Louis Police Board. He and his wife, Jeanne, and their three daughters, Emily, Julia and Alice, live in the Shaw Neighborhood. When it comes to community organizing, he endorses Quentin Crisp's advice: Rather than keeping up with the Joneses, it's better to pull them down to your level.

1. St. Louis Public Schools needs help from many hands
2. 'Landmarks' at 50 has become landmark in it own right
3. Costly new drugs: A crisis for one family, a quandry for U.S.
4. Matson's view: Fort Hood
5. Pain of joblessness now to last for many years
6. Slay personally apologizes for homeless incident
7. Public confidence and the "blue wall of silence"
8. The view from the window: trashing the homeless
9. History holds lessons for public health insurance option
10. Weatherman-in-chief

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