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04.05.2009 9:00 pm

St. Louis area needs an energetic rep on state education board

t. Louis Public Schools board member Donna Jones, at center, and union president Mary Armstrong, at right, yell at State Board of Education Commissioner D. Kent King after the board voted to install a transitional team to the public schools. Robert Cohen | Post-Dispatch

St. Louis schools board member Donna Jones and union president Mary Armstrong yell at State Bd. of Ed. Commissioner D. Kent King after the board voted to install transitional team. Robert Cohen | Post-Dispatch

Pop quiz: Who represents St. Louis…

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03.05.2009 9:00 pm

Courting fathers to support their children

Judge Jack Garvey has long experience in handling the St. Louis Circuit Court’s “deadbeat dad docket” in which contempt charges are brought against men who don’t pay court-ordered child support. He describes the experience as among the ultimate exercises in…

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12.24.2008 1:29 am

Generation X Christmas

St. Louis Post-Dispatch


Dave Drebes, publisher of the Arch City Chronicle and Missouri Scout, leads a band that plays once a year, just before Christmas. Here they are performing at the Way Out Club on S. Jefferson last…

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09.08.2008 1:55 pm

Police and early childhood education

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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Missouri State Sen. Jeff Smith went riding with St. Louis police over the summer, and wrote an account worth reading — mainly because there’s no sugar coating.

The account includes this:

I met former Police Chief Joe Mokwa about 2 years ago and…

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