Child exploitation
Anyone with human feelings couldn’t help but be heartsick at the sight of the now-notorious security video of Tuesday’s unprovoked taunting of and violent physical attack on a 17-year-old Belleville West High School student as he tried to take…
Flunking civics
On Tuesday morning, President Barack Obama plans to give a nationally televised speech directed to school children. He wants to talk about the importance of working hard and staying in school. It’s a kind of presidential pep talk for kids.
Bitter partisans have…
School zone: No freeloading
The Missouri Supreme Court was correct — and politically wise — to beg off broadly intervening in Missouri’s system of funding public primary and secondary education.
The high court decided Tuesday that the state education funding formula enacted in 2005 satisfies state constitutional…
Teachers’ choice
Illinois is a vital component in transforming the Arch grounds
Ken Salazar was among the tourists who visited the Gateway Arch for the first time in July. He got the deluxe tour, inasmuch the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial is a national park and Mr. Salazar, a former Democratic…
Penny wise
Fair transit
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Thousands of area workers and businesses who depend on public transportation endured a long, hot summer — and their problems are far from over.
St. Louis is in the depths of a public-transit crisis with no certain…
Pocket change could pay for a lot of special police services
With municipal budgets expected to be stagnant or worse for years to come, and with police services usually the largest item on those budgets, how should cities set priorities?
Obviously, the first priority…
Mystery snitch
Bristol School opening day connects old and new
Keys to the city
Postal Service not licked yet
(T)he Postal Service needs to take a hard look at every major postal policy, from employee pay, to days of delivery, to the closing of postal facilities. Everything must be on the table. Because without major changes,…
School spirit
Superintendent Kelvin Adams meets with students at McKinley Classical Junior Academy in 2008. Emily Rasinski | Post-Dispatch
When classes begin Aug. 20, some 1,300 students in five of the St. Louis Public Schools’ 51 elementary schools will embark on an even…
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Tea party polka
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Last week, I passed along a proven method for tempering potentially angry public meetings — an invocation at the meeting’s start seeking patience, respect and understanding.
Here’s another strategy I have put to good use to help…
Racial progress 3.0
St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay has been reaching out quietly, but broadly, for creative approaches to engaging the community on matters of race.
He wants ideas that are regional in scope because racial understanding is a regional goal and racial division…
Street theater
Several hundred citizens, virtually all of them of mid- to late-middle age, showed up at Bernard Middle School in Mehlville Thursday evening. Judging by their behavior, their object was to display their scorn and shout down U.S. Rep. Russ Carnahan,…
No poison control at Carnahan health care forum
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One of our favorite family stories arose out of an incident that occurred more than 10 years ago when my wife had been given a terrible time by a customer service representative at a local hospital.…
Town hall invocation
There have been a number of organized, disruptive demonstrations at town hall meetings being held by members of Congress on the topic of health care.
U.S. Rep. Todd Akin got a lot of laughs earlier this week when he told a seemingly…
Neighborhood market
Can an urban village with 11,000 full-time residents — and nearly 100,000 more daily visitors — support a 21,000-square-foot full-service grocery?
Schnuck Markets is about to find out.
Schnucks is making final preparations for the…














