2006

BREAKING NEWS CNN is reporting that President Bush will announce today that Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld is stepping down. UPDATE: U.S. Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) today released the following statement on the resignation of…

The controversial former chief academic officer for the St. Louis Public Schools has made a sudden departure from her current post in the Pittsburgh Public Schools.The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports today that Lynn Spampinato has taken…

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Tuesday's administrative meeting of the St. Louis Board of Education WILL NOT be at its normal location at the district's headquarters. The meeting will instead be at Carr Lane Middle School, 1004 N. Jefferson Ave.…

by Tina Rutherford, Sarah Hyduke, Paige Kuske, and Heather RollA group of Washington University graduate social work students surveyed students from Vashon High School and the ninth grade center at Williams to establish whether or…

In his final American speech as the leader of the United Nations, Secretary General Kofi Annan spoke in Missouri yesterday at the Truman Presidential Museum and Library in Independence. “The US has given the world…

Pub Def editor Antonio D. French, Arch City Chronicle publisher Dave Drebis, and (soon-to-be) State Sen. Jeff Smith were the guests on "Collateral Damage" with host Fred Hessel on Monday. The topics of discussion were…

St. Louis Congressmen Lacy Clay and Russ Carnahan were among 191 members of the House of Representatives to vote against legalizing the Bush Administration’s domestic spying program yesterday. The bill passed with the support of…

The American Federation of School Administrators, Local 44, which represents administrative staff and principals in the St. Louis Public Schools recently congratulated some of its members on being recognized by the state as some of…

The U.S. Senate, by a vote of 65-34, has passed a controversial bill that gives broad authority to President George W. Bush to interpret (or re-interpret) the long-standing Geneva Convention standards on the treatment of…