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07.22.2009 9:00 pm

The retirement crisis: Illinois points the way.

Kurt Granberg, poster boy for retirement planning. (Post-Dispatch file photo)

Kurt Granberg, poster boy for retirement planning. (Post-Dispatch file photo)

During his 22 years in the Illinois legislature, Kurt Granberg became something of an expert on the state’s severe underfunding of its five public pension funds. “People didn’t pay attention,” he told…

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02.15.2009 9:03 pm

Mary Love: Unionist Emeritus (Corrected)

Mary Love stands on the stoop of her southside apartment (Eddie Roth/Post-Dispatch)

Mary Love stands on the stoop of her south side apartment (Eddie Roth/Post-Dispatch)

Mary Love is a cleaning lady. She works for a contractor and currently is assigned to clean in a bank building on Forsyth Boulevard in Clayton. Four hours a…

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12.26.2008 2:42 pm

Open thread: Anniversaries, deaths and other events

Today marks the fourth anniversary of the Indian Ocean tsunami that killed hundreds of thousands of people and displaced millions. Voice of America has a short here. An NPR piece is here. And the BBC has a comprehensive page about the…

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12.09.2008 4:45 pm

Greg Maddux hangs ‘em up: An appreciation

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

“He sat by his locker, wearing his underwear, his Cubs cap and a doleful expression in his dark brown eyes, looking like he just was beaten in the Pony League finals. Players are younger-looking every year, but this kid looks…

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08.19.2008 11:43 am

In sickness and health insurance

sp_ho_cubs_wedding05_opt.jpgAre people rushing into marriage because they need health insurance? The New York Times had an interesting, if largely anecdotal, story last week that made that claim. Read it here.

It seems logical to me that such a trend could be…

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