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A standing-room crowd of residents and staff of the Normandy and Wellston school districts had plenty of questions Monday night about their proposed merger, but one answer was clear: As of June 30 of next year, Wellston will cease to exist. Though the issue won't be settled until Thursday, Missouri'...
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Missouri's status in a recent study that showed the state has been providing food stamps to 98 percent of those eligible turns out to be wrong. Missouri's participation percentage is somewhere in the 70-percent range, a spokesman for the state Department of Social Services confirmed Monday. And Miss...
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The Regional Arts Commission told area organizations that grant money will be down by at least 15 percent starting June 1, 2010. Given that many theater companies rely on RAC for up to 50 percent of their funding, this will mean a scramble for funding for the 2010-11 season -or rethinking what can b...
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The St. Louis Beacon "Cecilia Nadal thinks of herself as a bit of a gypsy, gathering strands
of this culture and that. That's probaby why the nonprofit organization
she founded is called Gitana (Spanish for gypsy). Gitana uses music,
dance and drama to promote diversity and global awareness. But Gitana
is just the latest way that Nadal has wor...ked to build bridges between
people."

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The St. Louis Beacon wonders if you know about the Public Insight Network? We're close to 1,000 sources - could you be the one to tip us over the top?

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About once a month, we'll ask you to share your observations, insights and experience. We then pass on your information to our reporters and editors who may follow up with a request for more information, or perhaps an interview. It's a great way to share what you know. So open up. Become part of th...
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With the help of federal stimulus money, South Grand is on the road to becoming a Great Street again. As part of the Great Streets program, a pilot program -- embraced by residents and businesses -- reconfigured the street to reduce speeding and increase safety, in effect becoming more neighborhood ...
Donna
Donna
I wondered about those concrete barriers. Now I know the purpose. All this in the name of safety, which I'm totally for, but (ironically) I had my first chargeable accident in 40 years of driving last week on Grand at Utah, rear-ended somebody, and also got a ticket for running a red light at Grand and I-44 at that camera controlled intersection (... See Moreanother first, and haven't had a ticket since the 80s) a few days before the accident. Synchronizing the lights and adding the barriers and changing the lanes hasn't been safer for me, or those around me. It was a bad week, most definitely.
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Mayor Francis Slay and the National Park Service are announcing that a new national design competition will be held to reinvigorate the Arch grounds, to eliminate real and perceived concrete and asphalt moats and boundaries and to weave together the Arch, city and river into a unified urban organism...
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In the decades since the civil rights movement, interracial relationships have become more common -- and more accepted. In 1970, interracial couples were only 0.7 percent of the population; by 2005, interracial marriages made up 7.5 percent of the population. That doesn't mean that all the problems ...
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Patrick Jackson went into teaching as a safety valve when he didn't find a symphony job. Kirkwood was about ready to drop its orchestral program because of a dearth of students. When the two came together, magic happened: He's an award-winning teacher and his orchestra is on its way to play Carnegie...
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By sending more U.S. troops to Afghanistan but also setting a deadline for when they would start to come home, President Barack Obama may have been trying to split the difference on an issue that prompted deep divisions. Based on reactions from St. Louisans who have experience in the region, the div...
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The St. Louis Beacon Join world acclaimed soprano Christine Brewer, legendary impresario Richard Gaddes, and your friends and members of the staff of the St. Louis Beacon on

Saturday, January 2, 2010

for a champagne reception and a resplendent evening of extraordinary singing and brilliant repartee at the Sheldon Concert Hall followed by an... incomparable feast in a fantasy winter garden at Bowood Farms.

Reception: 5:45 to 6:45 p.m.
Concert: 7 p.m.
Dinner: 8:15 p.m.

Dress Splendidly!

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Carolyn Clarke, Chair
Phoebe and Spencer Burke
Diann and Lance Cage
Ernest Clarke
Boo and Chuck Cook
Ann and Stephen Desloge
Hazel and Arnold Donald
William A. Donius and Jay Perez
Kitty Drescher
Barbara Eagleton
Saundra and James Hudson
Erica Leisenring and Robert Sears
Karen and Mont Levy
Pris and Sandy McDonnell
Noémi Neidorff
Kara Graziano and Timothy O'Leary
Peasy and Andrew Love
Ann and Gene Mackey
Eileen Ryan Pettus
Roy Pfautch
Emily Rauh Pulitzer
Mabel L. Purkerson
Annie and Joseph Schlafly
Jeanne and Rex Sinquefield
Laura Slay and Robert Poli
Jessie L. Ternberg
James Timmerberg
Carol and George H. Walker
Virginia Weldon
Josephine and Richard Weil
Rita and David Wells
Donna Wilkinson

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A benefit gala for the St. Louis Beacon
Time:5:45PM Saturday, January 2nd
Location:Sheldon Concert Hall and Bowood Farms
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When it comes to race it's easy to look at the big picture and see how some groups choose to dislike or discriminate against others. But how do people treat each other within their own group? Do light-skinned ...
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The St. Louis Beacon The first of several articles by arts journalist Joseph Wolin, part of a special coverage project involving the Beacon, KETC/Channel 9 and St. Louis Public Radio | 90.7 KWMU.

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"Metabolic City," at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum at Washington University, juxtaposes the work of three groups of visionary architects. Refreshingly, the exhibit only sparingly deploys the sort of didactic texts that usually overwhelm such shows; rather it forces us to actually examine the ob...