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12.02.2008 9:01 pm

St. Louis alderman misfires with call for more guns

AP Photo/Kelley McCall

AP Photo/Kelley McCall

St. Louis Alderman Charles Quincy Troupe, a Democrat representing the First Ward, is urging his constituents to start carrying firearms to protect themselves and their property. The St. Louis Police Department, he proclaimed, has lost the trust of the…

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08.01.2008 1:02 pm

Good News Friday

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

thumbs_up.jpgThe 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…

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05.13.2008 10:54 am

Tuition talks, should vote too

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Junior g-menThis item caught my eye. It’s about a bill Sen. Chuck Graham, D-Columbia, is trying to midwife into law that would give a vote to the student member of the University of Missouri Board of Curators.

Seems the grown ups on the…

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04.22.2008 4:11 pm

The Ken Lay professor

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The University of Missouri has finally filled the long-vacant post of Ken Lay Chair of Economics. Good. No respectable economics department should let $1.1 million go to waste.

The job had been open for nearly a decade, due largely to the…

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