In a shameless bid for next year’s Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, we hereby present a possible solution to the civic angst about “Lake DeWitt,” the giant hole adjacent to Busch Stadium: A Potemkin Ballpark Village. This is brilliant, if we do say so ourselves. …
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Monday editorial: The Potemkin Ballpark Village
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Monday’s editorial: StLumped
http://www.stltoday.com/blogzone/the-platform/published-editorials/2008/07/mondays-editorial-stlumped/Chrysler is laying off 2,400 workers in Fenton. Anheuser-Busch is cutting pensions and health benefits for salaried workers, hoping to avoid being swallowed by Belgian brewer InBev. Just north of the St. Louis suburbs, neighbors and National Guardsmen lost a fight against the Mississippi, as the river drowned tiny towns and thousands of acres of crops. …
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The real issue: apartheid education
http://www.stltoday.com/blogzone/the-platform/short-takes/2008/07/the-real-issue-apartheid-education/Law professor and novelist Stephen Carter wrote a terrific column on the decades long political tug of war over so-called affirmative action. Turns out the struggle is make believe, a palliative that provides an excuse for not dealing with what’s really at issue. …
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Sunday Editorial: Where ita s fat - St. Louis Post-Dispatch
http://ebatman.blogspot.com/2008/07/sunday-editorial-where-i...Sunday Editorial: Where ita s fat
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Sunday Editorial: Where ita s fat - St. Louis Post-Dispatch
http://www.medicaldevicesmarket.com/2008/07/sunday-editoria....Sunday Editorial: Where ita s fat
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http://suttonhoo.blogspot.com/2008/07/postdated.htmlto compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation. Just sayin'. & p.s. The Declaration in "American" as translated by H.L. Mencken and run just recently in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch »
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The Morning Skate: Naslund, Boyle, Blake and the Blasters Celebrate Independence
http://slapshot.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/04/the-morning-ska...s a fine page on the story of the Declaration of Independence from the Independence Hall Association in Philadelphia, where the original document was signed. Here’s the text of the document. And then there was this early 20th-century translation of the Declaration by H.L. Mencken, who was sort of the Sean Avery of the newspaper and literary world at the time (credit to Eddie Ross blogging in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch for posting it earlier this week).
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Mulch :: a blog on agriculture, farm policy, and food safety
http://www.mulchblog.comEWG Executive Director Richard Wiles penned this op-ed in today's St. Louis Post Dispatch. The piece is in response to a recent editorial calling for land to be pulled out from the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP), and placed into production. While the benefit to taxpayers from CRP includes critical elements like creating wildlife habitat, protecting water quality, and defending
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CT: “Lieberman On The Ticket Doesn’t Help Republicans”
http://americannonsense.com/?p=10860for more on Iraq, Hillary as VP and other goodies from the Land of Steady Habits. Sensible Connecticut is ready for change. McCain is looking at a blowout. Update [2008-7-2 13:52:56 by DemFromCT]: Don’t forget this illuminating analysis on the part of the McCain Campaign: Connecticut — McCain polling generally within margin of error; believe CT Sen. Joe Lieberman’s support for McCain will help him win this traditionally Democratic state.
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CT: "Lieberman On The Ticket Doesn't Help Republicans"
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/7/2/123014/5242for more on Iraq, Hillary as VP and other goodies from the Land of Steady Habits. Sensible Connecticut is ready for change. McCain is looking at a blowout. Update [2008-7-2 13:52:56 by DemFromCT]: Don't forget this illuminating analysis on the part of the McCain Campaign: Connecticut — McCain polling generally within margin of error; believe CT Sen. Joe Lieberman’s support for McCain will help him win this traditionally Democratic state.
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CT: “Lieberman On The Ticket Doesn’t Help Republicans”
http://www.bloggersforchange.com/?p=3945for more on Iraq, Hillary as VP and other goodies from the Land of Steady Habits. Sensible Connecticut is ready for change. McCain is looking at a blowout. Update [2008-7-2 13:52:56 by DemFromCT]: Don't forget this illuminating analysis on the part of the McCain Campaign: Connecticut — McCain polling generally within margin of error; believe CT Sen. Joe Lieberman’s support for McCain will help him win this traditionally Democratic state.
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Simplytrue - News & Tech from Citizen Sites
http://berzdorf.com/simplytruefor more on Iraq, Hillary as VP and other goodies from the Land of Steady Habits. Sensible Connecticut is ready for change. McCain is looking at a blowout. Update [2008-7-2 13:52:56 by DemFromCT]: Don't forget this illuminating analysis on the part of the McCain Campaign: Connecticut — McCain polling generally within margin of error; believe CT Sen. Joe Lieberman’s support for McCain will help him win this traditionally Democratic state.
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Battle between ACLU and public prayer rages on - St. Louis Post-Dispatch
http://flagpolebuyer.com/blog/2008/06/25/battle-between-aclu...The Washington Post is reporting that the American Civil Liberties Union is threatening to sue the U.S. Naval Academy unless it abolishes its tradition of daily lunchtime prayer, arguing that such a practice is unconstitutional: In a letter to the … Read more here…
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