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Donna Korando

Features and Commentary Editor

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.

'The Road Show' improv

Brent Jones | St. Louis Beacon

This Saturday was the debut of a new show by The Improv Shop that will bring out of town improv teams to St. Louis to play for — and with — a local audience. The Road Show brought teams "Everybody Grok" and "Felt" from Chicago.

We talked to Eric Christensen, producer of the Road Show and member of local improv team "Ted Dangerous"; Katie Nunn, member of "Ted Dangerous" and improv coach; and Melanie Penn and Ranjan Khan, members of local teams "Melanj" and "Magic Ratio"; about the St. Louis improv scene and why it's important to welcome teams from other cities to perform here.

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Miguel Dulick recounts a trans-Honduras tour that, again, reminded him of the power and joy of keeping siblings and parents connected.
A speech business leaders won't give

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Beacon Blog

In search of a 'social media' definition

General manager Nicole Hollway is back to the Beacon blog and she's trying to piece together what social media is and means to people.
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On chess

Women's world champion cruises in Gibraltar

Ben Finegold checks out the women's play at the Tradewise Gilbraltar Chess Congress, particularly the chess played by 17-year-old Hou Yifan of China.

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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. 13, 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!

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