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. Hacked climate e-mails offer flash, but no smoking gun
2. Problems at Alton levee underscore a major regional threat
3. Prosecutors should send a message on consumer fraud
4. Dislocated in America
5. Following the evidence on cancer screenings
6. When Hans Met Sarah: Everyone's a critic.
7. It's time to dissolve the Northeast Fire District
8. Illinois prosecutor bullies students, backslides to bad old days
9. Hunger, a Third World problem, affects a sixth of the U.S.
10. Scare mongering about trials, prison is cynical partisanship

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