Spring Break
After a two-year legal battle, Steve Wyatt Earp was sentenced to five years of parole and required to repay $189,000 within 30 days. Earp was hired in 2006 as a political consultant to manage the Citizen's Committee Proposition EJ campaign, a referendum to raise property taxes that would go toward STLCC's income.
FROM RIGHT TO LEFT, Kim McCall, head women's softball coach, Shelly Ethridge, head women's basketball coach, and Brandi Duncan, student, participate in the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure on June 13. Approximately 15 students from STLCC Meramec participated in the race at different times.
There is a crack from the contact of ball to bat; cheers and yelling erupt as the player rounds the bases. It is not the Cardinals at Busch Stadium and not the Magic baseball team hitting another run. It is the children from Meramec's Summer Baseball and Softball Camp bringing their teammate home.
As baby boomers near retirement age, the American Association of Community Colleges has made steps to ensure that citizens 50 and older know how to manage their golden years in uncertain economic times.
The Supreme Court of Missouri upheld the death sentence for Kevin Johnson on May 26 for murder in the first degree. Johnson had been originally been convicted in November 2007 for the shooting of Kirkwood Police Sgt. William McEntee on July 5, 2005.
In my last column, I addressed a Missouri House vote allowing students to hold private prayers by students in public school. I stated that parents opposing this legislation are scared that their children would be exposed to other ideas, but a recent Philadelphia ruling is the epitome of the fear that runs in the veins of parents-that children may be exposed to a set of beliefs.
George Tiller was murdered in his church. Tiller was wearing a bullet-proof flak-jacket when he was shot, point-blank in the head. The physician, who became a symbol for the abortion rights movement, and one of the few who continued to perform late-term abortions, was killed while his wife was singing in the church choir.
Three years ago, Gary Gackstatter, coordinator of music at STLCC - Meramec, threw out his television set. It served no purpose in the Gackstatter home. Instead of "doing nothing" while watching TV, the Gackstatters spend their evenings reading, drawing and listening to music, he said; and why wouldn't they? The arts are all too familiar to them.
In December of 2003, a man named Frank Warren went to Paris and bought three postcards. As Warren slept, he had a vivid dream in which he modified the postcards with a different message written on each. When he awoke he changed the postcards with the messages he saw in his dream.
America has been the flagship of democracy since it cut apron strings with England in 1776. People still climb walls and brave the stormy, shark-infested Gulf to seek a better life in our country. So what has democracy's flagship been thinking, taking China (poster child of communism and human rights violations) under its wing for more than 30 years?
Jeanetta Roberts What can be better than a romantic night out in New York City? How about having the night paid for partially by the American taxpayers? The Obama's could surely tell you a little more about those perks. On Saturday, May 30 President Obama made good on his promise to wife and first lady Michelle by taking her to a Broadway show following the 2008 presidential campaign.