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By Brent Jones, Presentation Editor

Updated 12:05 pm Mon., 8.9.10

Beacon Blog - Beacon Editor Margaret Freivogel, Associate Editor Robert Duffy, General Manager Nicole Hollway, Development Director Peter Franzen, Presentation Editor Brent Jones and Business Manager Shawn McGinness

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

The Lens - In partnership with Cinema St. Louis

Editors' Picks

Nation
- Protecting copyright/restricting artistic offerings: Supreme Court says restoring copyright protection to works that had been in the public domain or recognizing international copyright does not infringe on the rights of orchestras, theater groups or others to use the work. | Lyle Denniston
- Charter school tax credit could help ensure success: Modeled after the low income housing tax credit, it would reward high-performing charters. | Ian Galloway/Federal Reserve
- Why all public higher education should be free: In the current system, as students are priced out of colleges and end up at for-profit schools, everyone pays more, and we produce fewer graduates. | Bob Samuels/Huffington Post
- With Newt Gingrich, there is less than meets the ear: He isn't a man with a big ego; he is an ego with a person attached. | Steve Chapman/Chicago Tribune
Region
- Lessons for education in Cardinals comeback. | Ashley Cadwell, blog
- Cardinals were a team of destiny: They were a better team than they appeared in August, and because baseball caters to the unlikely these days, they were a team that did the remarkable when things started going right. | Joe Posnanski/Sports Illustrated
- Quinn sold out Illinois: And now his feeble bid to unravel his own craven deal with state workers has been stomped down by an arbitrator, but even if a court eventually rules for the governor, the damage is done. | Chicago Tribune editorial
- China hub idea for St. Louis is a questionable subsidy: The sheer size of the package is eyebrow-raising, given that a tax credit is the same as outright spending from the point of view of the state budget. | Kansas City Star editorial
World
- Don't underestimate younger audiences: When 12-year-olds in Marissa, Ill., studied Britten's "War Requiem," their understanding was deeper than I could have ever imagined. | Christine Brewer/NPR
- Luck as America's foreign policy: Those who deny that the United States is in another war for the purpose of changing another regime are kidding themselves. | Jim Talent/National Review
- The battle in Bangkok : The immediate crisis in Thailand seems to have cooled, but the danger of a civil war is far from other. | editorial, The Economist
- Lonely times for German chancellor : Other EU leaders are no longer cheering Angela Merkel on and popularity within Germany is declining. What happened? | Philipp Wittrock and Severin Weiland, Der Spiegel

'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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Topics

'Simple' Hancock amendment spawned complex state finances

Mel Hancock said the concept was easy to understand: the revenue raised by Missouri should be limited, and voters should vote on higher taxes. More than 30 years later, the effects turn out to be more complex. First of three parts.

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Voices

'Real' TV from Snooki to Mitt

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.
Letter from Honduras: Family in December

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

Ken Schechtman says that publicly traded business will not -- perhaps cannot -- put doing the right thing ahead of legally maximizing profits.

Beacon Roundtable

Roundtable for Feb. 2 - Missouri Primary, redistricting, a Komen controversy and fighting crime with moneyball

In this week's Beacon Roundtable, Dick Weiss, Jason Rosenbaum, Jo Mannies, Robert Joiner and Dale Singer sit down to talk about the Missouri primary and redistricting, the controversy around…
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Beacon Blog

We apologize for the inconvenience

Editor Margaret Wolf Freivogel says the problems that froze the Beacon's site in the past are being fixed: Thank you for your patience.
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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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