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Information: When Donna Korando was a freshman at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, she started work at the Daily Egyptian setting type on a Justowriter and learned to read just enough code to find paragraph breaks and simple words so she knew where to make fixes. Thirty-nine years later, she has learned enough html to locate problems. What goes around...




In between Carbondale and the Beacon, she taught high school in Manitowoc, WI., and worked at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. She was the copy editor and letters for the editorial page from 1973-77. As an editorial writer from 1977-87, she covered Illinois, the city of St. Louis, education, agriculture, family issues and sub-Saharan Africa. She had the most enjoyment as editor of the Commentary Page from 1987-2003. The page won awards from the Association of Opinion Page Editors in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2002. From 2003-2007, she headed the features copy desk.




In addition to a journalism degree from SIUC, Donna earned a masters of studies in law from Yale Law School. Her son stayed in South Beach after graduating from the University of Miami. Her daughter is a graduate of Bard College in New York and is working in El Salvador. The house is ruled by two cats.

 













Where art meets science

Michael Eastman

Photographer Michael Eastman, in conjunction with the Hope Center for Neurological Disorders, gives a detailed look at brains, nerve endings and other details inside mice, humans and more. To find out about the fundraiser at which you can see more such photos, see In the Spotlight.

Voices

  • The rich aren't like Charlie Brown
    Posted 6 a.m. Tues., 02.09.10 - Part of the appeal of Charlie Brown is that he keeps trying to kick that football that Lucy always yanks away at the last minute. Bevis Schock says President Obama is like Lucy and equates raising taxes to pulling back the football. If taxes go too high, he says, entrepreneurs will stop trying.
  • Quitting cold Turkey has a new meaning
    Posted 9:16 a.m. Mon., 02.08.10 - With a smoking rate of 40 percent, Turkey has created a political and social firestorm is its seven-month old ban on public indoor smoking. Ekrem Mehmet Morali says that the country should have done more to mitigate how the ban affects coffeeshops and to help smokers quit.
  • City crime rates: comparing apples to apples

    Posted 6 a.m. Sun., 02.07.10 - How do you compare crime rates in cities that have different socio-economic conditions? Richard Rosenfeld joined in ranking of cities according to their homicide rates, after adjusting for poverty and other conditions strongly associated with city homicide rates but over which the police exert little control. The news for St. Louis isn't good.

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Barroom Conversations

The Beacon's nationally recognized Barroom Conversations program on race, class and other issues that divide will be held on Monday, Feb. 20, 2012, at 7:30 PM discussing Education and Class. RSVP on Facebook and invite your friends! We'll pick up where we left off at Six Row Brewing Co., 3690 Forest Park Avenue at Spring. We look forward to seeing you again!

mikado

The MIKADO has a little list … were you on it?

The St. Louis Beacon rang in 2012 with a concert performance of Gilbert & Sullivan's beloved operetta, "The Mikado," at the Sheldon Concert Hall, and the Higher Education Channel was on hand to record it. Here is a link to the complete perfomance, which we hope you'll enjoy.

 The musical direction of "The Mikado" was by Amy Kaiser; Craig Terry was conductor-accompanist. All proceeds from ticket sales benefitted the Beacon.
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