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February 2009
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December 2008 ArchivesHold up...just one quick second before you close the book on 2008! I would like to take you back a few years to your first day of first grade. Remember the smell of the freshly painted room, your desk with your name written on it in perfect teacher-print, and that highly coveted box of 64 crayons. Oh, the possibilities. That's how I am feeling about 2009. I know, I know...we're in the worst recession since the Great DE-pr... Less than three hours and counting until Christmas Day. Here at Newsfour, my colleagues and I are putting the finishing touches on the 10 p.m. newscast. We are a small but hardworking group of current event elves. Tonight's lead story is about holiday heroes. We tell these stories quite often, but they are all the more touching during this season...when even the Grinch and all things grim are overshadowed by the hope of the Christmas... I bid adieu to a few friends today: Trader Joe's, Target, and UMB at the Brentwood Promenade. Their neighborhood is under construction. And after a year of the I-64/Highway 40 project, the only orange I like is in the produce aisle. The eastern half of this massive highway project from I-170 to Kingshighway will close, starting this weekend. And the western half of I-64/Highway 40 reopens on Monday after being closed for ... My Newsfour colleagues and I are hosting a new age fireside chat Monday, December 8 at 7:00 p.m. at the Missouri History Museum, and you're invited. No candles, no soft music...but real talk about creating a better, closer, stronger community. The town hall meeting is the finale for the series, "A Shared Saint Louis: An Examination of Race Relations". The meeting will be recorded and broadcast later this month. But we want y... There are 140 silver ornaments in my closet. For 12 months, they have waited for Christmas. And it appears they will have to wait another 12. When I raced to the store to purchase them during the after-Christmas sale last year, visions of an evergreen shouldering all those glorious ornaments filled my head. Months later, I am still waiting to move to my new home and planning to spend the holiday with my boyfriend and his family. Ther... |
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