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With this issue we inaugurate a new service.
Rene' Dubos: The greatest crime committed in American cities may not be murder, rape or robbery, but rather the wholesale and constant exposure of children to noise, ugliness and garbage in the street, thereby conditioning them to accept public squalor as the normal state of affairs and diminishing their future enjoyment of life.
Two recent events, the gas station shutdown and the Veiled Prophet parade and all of its trappings, which were propogated by the few, seem to be ignored by the many.
It is properly the first business of neighborhood organizations, such as the Skinker-DeBaliviere Community Council, Rosedale-Skinker Improvement Assn., Washington Heights Neighbors, and the Parkview Assn., to deal constructively with problems affecting their domains, but there is a hazard in allowing this to become the only business of such groups.
I want to write about democracy.
Very soon the alley lights in some alleys in Rosedale Skinker will go off.
Overheard at a neighborhood gathering recently, Wrigley Wrymouth, Executive Director of the Brotherhood of Eirons and Alazons, suggested that our area would be perfect for a midwinter festival.

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Why Not Vote?

by Jo Ann Vatcha [Editor’s Note: Fifty years ago, longtime Times editor Jo Ann Vatcha wrote this reflection on voting and the…

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Community Council Highlights

A $4,500 tax liability, the resignation of the Council’s project manager, and a way forward for the Westminster 1035 Garden highlighted the…

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In Your Ear

Despite my youth, I’ve traveled a bit through our wonderful country. I’ve gone up to the top of the Empire State Building,…

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Grace UMC Hosts Musical Protest

Grace United Methodist Church joined with STL Singing Resistance to host a protest at the corner of Skinker Boulevard and Waterman Boulevard…

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