Historical February 1992 article. Dates, prices, services and contacts describe the source period; current availability has not been established.
With this issue of THE TIMES, we welcome a new editor, Lana Stein.
A resident of the Skinker-DeBaliviere neighborhood for nearly three years, she shares the unbridled enthusiasm many feel for the City’s best neighborhood”.
After several academic relocations around the country, she proudly calls our neighborhood home. Lana has been an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Missouri-St. Louis since 1987. Previously she taught at the University of Georgia, recruited to the south after receiving her PhD in Political Science at Michigan State University in 1984. Before returning to graduate school, she worked for two public housing authorities, in San Francisco, and in Michigan, as well as a non-profit agency which developed housing for farm workers.
Her initial visits to St. Louis were purely scientific, spent in research for a study on big-city bureaucracy. Interviewing dozens of politicians and piecing together the history of patronage offices in St. Louis City Government proved fruitful for writer Stein, whose book HOLDING BUREAUCRATS ACCOUNTABLE was published last year. Since the publication of her book, she has co-authored a study on BlackWhite elections in St. Louis which explains racial demography and raises many intriguing questions regarding when and if a black mayor can be elected in St. Louis.
As a result of these and other published articles, Lana has been interviewed on Channels 9 and 5 and traded remarks with Charlie Brennan and Kevin Horrigan on KMOX Radio.
The Journal and Post-Dispatch newspapers have increasingly sought her comments and opinions on political issues and people.
The many months of research and interviewing politicians (including Alderman McGuire) also led Lana to Skinker-DeBaliviere and to her first home purchase, one of the Nina Place Condos.
She has subsequently served on the condo association board of directors and is a firm advocate for completion—and top-notch maintenance—of this large rehabilitation project in the center of the SkinkerDeBaliviere neighborhood. Picked last year to serve on the community council to represent Nina Place, Lana is currently serving her second term as Vice President of SDCC. Proof once again that you choose the busiest person to undertake another busy job, in 1991, Mayor Schoemehl appointed Lana to the city-county Board of Electors. Having recently completed the year-long grueling meeting schedule, Lana feels it was ” an unforgettable experience spent learning about all the problems and challenges our area will face in the future and discussing many creative ideas on how to deal with them.”.
In her newest challenge as TIMES Editor, Lana wants to emphasize coverage of neighborhood activities and include news about people from every part of the neighborhood. “I encourage any resident interested in writing or suggesting items to be covered in THE TIMES to contact me,” she said.
She also said she looks forward to meeting other residents and involving new blood in the writing and layout and delivery of THE TIMES. “I’m really excited about the opportunity to carry on this wonderful volunteer tradition in my adopted neighborhood,” stated Lana. Along with news of people are anticipated political coverage and features about issues of importance to residents and business alike, such as the upcoming series on Delmar. “On behalf of the board of directors of THE TIMES, I’d like to welcome Lana to the helm. We’re excited to have new leadership and to be working with a person whose qualifications are outstanding and whose commitment to our neighborhood is so great,” added Mari Weir, former Editor .
As the newest in a long line of volunteer Editors, Lana has a unique challenge ahead. “I invite old and new contributors and deliverers to work with me to help make THE TIMES . even better.”
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New Times editor Lana Stein with her cat. Photographer not credited.
Originally published in The Times of Skinker-DeBaliviere, February 1992.
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