Violence in Congo continues. Will this be another Darfur; another Rwanda?

Silence from both the Obama and Clinton camps. Remember, last week it was reported that President-elect Barack Obama asked Sen. Hillary Cltinon, his one-time rival, to be his secretary of state. Vetting of…

The media is frequently criticized for being too negative, and many believe that — regardless of the cause — news organizations deliberately want to paint reality with the darkest colors possible. Good news is allegedly downplayed in favor of the…

An eerie blood-red glow pulsed across the night sky above St. Louis on Nov. 5, 2001. It looked like a conflagration just over the horizon. In fact, it was the aurora borealis, the Northern Lights.
In this part of the Midwest,…

Shana Dale, NASA’s deputy administrator, was in St. Louis today touting the space agency’s moon-and-beyond missions. She and astronaut Carl Walz, a veteran of four shuttle missions who is now working on future mission technologies, held a program at the…