Dorothea Lange, courtesy of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum​In an interesting piece in the October Atlantic, Benjamin Schwarz surveys a collection of books about daily life during the Great Depression in an attempt to glean some lessons from the past about what we can expect in the near future as the nation lurches toward economic recovery.The good news, Schwarz discovers, is that the Great Depression was not, in reality, as terrible as the mythology that surrounds it
St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay used last week's critical audit of the St. Louis Police Department as one more reason why the law enforcement agency should be under local control. The St. Louis police department has operated under state control since the Civil War when out-state legislators feared that city cops might assist the Union Army. www.mohistory.orgUnion sympathizers? Turn-of-the-century St. Louis cops. ​At a meeting yesterday of the St. Louis Police Board of Commissioners, Slay told his
