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Posted 5:00 p.m. Thu., Dec. 3 - In this week's Beacon Roundtable, Dick Weiss, Dale Singer, Jo Mannies and Elia Powers sit down to talk about Twitter co-founder and St. Louis native Jack Dorsey's next project, Missouri's nation-leading status relating to food stamps and the war. Full Story »

If you remember me at all Recall me as a poet. For one who's mouthed too many words To have life assessed By measured speech And thoughts slowly sifted Is comforting But even more Redeeming. Full Story »

Posted 3:32 p.m. Thurs., Dec. 3 - The first remarkable thing about Kent Mackenzie's "The Exiles," a small but powerful film about rootless Native Americans living in the Bunker Hill section of Los Angeles at the end of the 1950s, is that it was somehow completely overlooked by even the most thorough film historians for nearly half a century: I pulled a dozen books off of my shelves and found ... Full Story »

Trina Clark James, a north side resident who graduated from Clayton High, never gave up on convincing KIPP to place one of its highly prized public schools in St. Louis. Her journey to teaching included detours in business and engineering. Full Story »

But one more statistic that might at first seem to trump all those in the bad news category -- 98 percent -- is actually being held up as a reason for Missouri to be proud. It leads the nation in getting food stamps to all but 2 percent of those who are eligible. Full Story »

They were medical pioneers -- the generation of African-American doctors in St. Louis who bridged the transition from segregated to integrated health-care facilities. Full Story »

Posted 6 a.m. Thurs., Dec. 3 - It had been just over three weeks since our last noteworthy mass shooting, so I guess we were about due. Full Story »

Posted 10:29 a.m. Wed., Dec. 2 - St. Louis photographer Marian Brickner's fascination with bonobos began in 1998 when her son told her about a new book by noted primatologist Frans de Waal. Full Story »

Posted 8:05 a.m. Tues., Dec. 1 - A donnybrook, in case you didn't know, is basically a free-for-all fight. Full Story »

Posted 3:18 p.m. Mon. Nov. 30 - I'm fairly certain that prior to seeing "The Damned United" I had never heard the name of British football coach Brian Clough. (In fact, everything I know about British football can be summed up in a single sentence: Americans call it soccer.) Full Story »

Posted 11:04 a.m. Mon., Nov. 30 - The white Christmas tree, with colorfully wrapped gifts underneath, went up a week before Thanksgiving in the Williams family household. Full Story »

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Obama supporters celebrate. Gathering together. The studios of KETC/Channel 9. Full Story »