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Health professionals anticipate shortage of primary-care providers

By Robert Joiner, Beacon staff
Posted 2:35 pm Fri., 11.11.11
Judy Baker (left), the regional director of the federal Department of Health and Human Services, was in town yesterday for a "listening session" on health care. The audience of health-care providers spoke about the promise and challenges of health reform, including medical homes for patients, insurance exchanges, electronic health records a shortage of providers. (Beacon file photo)

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'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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Doug Williams says the proposed consent decree before the U.S. district court here may not be perfect, but it's the best way to move forward to stop the costs of inadquate waste- and storm-water systems.
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M.W. Guzy fears his daughters' affection for trash TV might have been genetically inherited, as he finds himself drawn to the anybody-but-Mitt show, playing on a loop on cable "news' channels.

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