Renee Racette at the Obama field office in the Shaw Neighborhood. Eddie Roth/Post-Dispatch
To understand why Barack Obama is president-elect of the United States, it helps to visit the old Lester’s Music Store on the corner of 39th Street and Castleman…
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The television was showing pictures from Grant Park in Chicago, from the streets of Harlem, from Spelman College in Atlanta. Young people and old people; black, brown and white people of all shades; dancing, hugging, screaming, weeping. It was…
As the polls close in St. Louis and across Missouri, here’s a link to the Missouri Secretary of State’s web tally of voting results.
It has the results for all state-wide candidates, Congress and the Legislature, as well as amendments and…
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I don’t care what the advance polls say: Right now, neither I nor anyone else knows who our next president will be. Nor can anyone say for certain why those who vote for Barack Obama or John McCain will do…
Here’s hoping you sail through the line at your polling place. But, just in case, here’s some advice that can help prevent problems on Election Day:
• Sample ballots. Get one before you go to the polls. Chances are you will make wiser…
What can voters do to help keep the lines moving on Election Day?
They can study a sample ballot before heading to the polls, mapping out their voting strategy ahead of time.
The St. Louis city election board took an extraordinary step,…
For all the details of Post-Dispatch recommendations on candidates and ballot propositions on Election Day, click on the links below:
Endorsements: a response.
For the last month or so, the Post-Dispatch editorial board has been offering its recommendations on candidates and issues on Tuesday’s ballot. Endorsements always generate a lot of comment and that is the case again this year. Human…
William Hogarth: The Election I: An election entertainment (1754)
As near as we can tell, the 2008 presidential election first was referenced in the Post-Dispatch on Sept. 23, 2003, when then-New York Times columnist William Safire threw out the first name:…
Students and teachers in more than half the public schools in St. Louis County and in Frances Howell, Zumwalt and Wentzville districts in St. Charles County will have a holiday on Election Day.
The closings are unprecedented. And unnecessary. Maybe even…
Well-known pollster John Zogby of Zogby International told a luncheon crowd on Thursday about perhaps the best indicator of who will be elected president on Election Day - the infallible Weekly Reader poll of children.
Zogby told the St. Louis Regional Chamber…
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There are good reasons to doubt whether Missouri gubernatorial candidates Jay Nixon and Kenny Hulshof understand the deep problems that long have plagued St. Louis Public Schools.
Both men have plenty to say about education policy and throw…
The St. Louis County Charter is like a local constitution, detailing county government’s civil service and budget systems and the duties and responsibilities of various public officials.
The charter also says that every 10 years, county residents must vote on this question:…
In a perfect world, there would be no need for temporary shelters to house abused and neglected children. There would be no need for family crisis intervention programs. Children would be valued and loved and protected.
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SO NOW, in the waning days of the campaign, here is the alleged storyline: Those polls that show Barack Obama leading in the race against John McCain for president? Even widening his lead? Those polls are warped.…
A Jefferson County subdivision under construction in 2004. (P-D file photo)
On Nov. 4, Jefferson County voters will be asked to change a form of government that has existed since frontier days. Proponents of the ballot measure say the county has…
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Emily is 27 years old and has Down syndrome. She lives with her parents in Webster Groves, but her mother says she hopes to live on her own one day. Emily’s path to independence lies along Metro’s transit routes.
Emily has…
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“All politics is local” _ an oft-quoted phrase from former U.S. House Speaker Thomas “Tip” O. Neill Jr.
That truism has been obscured in the months of infighting for the U.S. presidency and now the incessant bombardment of statewide and local…
St. Louis County Courthouse. J.B. Forbes/Post-Dispatch
There’s been much bellyaching in recent years, mainly from hard-core conservatives, about how judges are selected in Missouri.
Under the pioneering program acclaimed nationally as the “Missouri Plan,” state Supreme Court and Court of Appeals judges are…
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