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Editor's Hotseat – Beacon Editor Margaret Freivogel

Beacon Backroom – Political reporter Jo Mannies

Beacon Roundtable – Beacon contributing editor Dick Weiss

Country Mouse – Features and Commentary Editor Donna Korando

Law Scoop – Beacon contributor Bill Freivogel

The Feed – Beacon reporter Elia Powers

BeaconTech – Presentation Editor Brent Jones

The Lens - In partnership with Cinema St. Louis

 

Editors' Picks

  • Nation
    • Health-care debate reaches its final lap: My bet is that the president will find his votes. If only Ted Kennedy were still here to be one of them. | Susan Estrich/Rasmussen Reports

    • Jihad Jane, international woman of mystery: Does this drab housewife really represent the changing face of terrorism? | Froma Harrop/Rasmussen Reports

    • It's time for black leaders to lead: Instead of hosting forums, perhaps they should be promoting a vision – one with a consistent, inspirational message and down-to-earth, step-by-step methods. | Sylvester Brown  Jr./New American Media

    • Real genius in D.C.: In Washington, the national pastime is not baseball but gotcha. And the more you try to do, the more likely you are to be gotten. | Susan Estrich/Rasmussen Reports

  • Region
  • World
    • Pat Robertson's canard about Haiti making a pact with the devil repeats a myth that Europeans have used to belittle the country. | Thomas Rogers, Salon

    • New chant of Iranian protesters is "Death to no one!": Thirty years after American hostages were taken, young Iranians are raising a gentle accusatory finger at their own parental generation. | Hamid Dabashi/CNN

    • In defense if the National Health Service. Criticism of the British health-care system is not only often mistaken, it blinds Americans to the faults within their own method of providing and paying for medical care. | The Economist

    • Tighter capital requirements. As consumers still clammer for access to credit and banks appear ready to pump up the bonuses again, governments have few options but to require a capital buffer that will protect against loss. | The Economist

 

Gatekeepers

Video by Elia Powers

Rollerderby isn't just for women in St. Louis anymore. The StL Gatekeepers team lets men get out on the rink. Read the story and see a larger video

Voices

  • Beacon Columnists

    Posted 9:30 a.m. Thurs., 03.18.10 - The University of Chicago is a prestigious institution and the intellectual home of both the atomic bomb and the bombastic economic and political theories that caused the great financial meltdown in 2008, writes columnist M.W. Guzy, who wonders which "bomb" caused the most damage.

  • In the News

    Posted 2:45 p.m. Mon., 03.15.10 - The congressional ethics committee can't be trusted to demand high standards. The Supreme Court says wide-open corporate spending cannot be curtailed in elections. And President Barack Obama raised more than anyone else. D.C. can't say no to money, so Matt Vianello says the people should say no to the big spenders

  • Beacon Columnists

    Posted 6 a.m. Sun., 03.14.10 - Mike Lawrence calls for support for amending the Illinois constitution to do away with the draw-from-the-hat mechanism that for three consecutive decades has permitted the lottery winner to dictate the new boundaries required after every census.

Beacon Roundtable

The Lens

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    Posted 6 a.m. Thurs., 03.18.10 - It's called Anyclip (www.anyclip.com ), and according to its publicity, it will "empower you to find and relive any moment from any film, instantly."  It sounded promising, but a search of the site itself, which launched on March 15 proved to be far less successful.

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