After a hectic day of food, football, travel, family, and family-related headaches, it's easy to overlook the real reason that we celebrate Thanksgiving. It's not because of some silly myth about pilgrims and it's not just another excuse for one more gorging holiday meal. It is, quite literally, about the people and things that help you make it through the year.
On Wednesday, I joined the leaders of the St. Louis health and social services group Acción Social Communitaria, as they dined with ab
We're back at you, and on April Fool's Day no less. This week we proudly present our special "Play Ball" Opening Day 2009 spread, complete with a full-page St. Louis Cardinals schedule (suitable for framing), and a thought-provoking piece by our baseball blogger extraordinaire, Aaron Schafer, who ponders whether this will at last be a breakout year for top Redbird prospects.
In keeping with the baseball theme, our News Real, with its oh-so--clever headline, "The Sultans of So
http://www.laclinica-stl.org/Sad news in the St. Louis medical and Hispanic communities today, as the Post-Dispatch reports that La Clinica, the free, multilingual health care center located just off of South Grand in the Scruggs Church, will be closing later this month due to a lack of funding.The facility, which offers everything from pre-natal to dental care at a cost of just $20 per patient, has always struggled to make ends meet. In the past, costs were cut by using free drug samples f
photo by Jennifer SilverbergWilliam Chignoli on the steps of ASC's clinic on South GrandJust two months ago, the low-cost immigrant healthcare center La Clinica closed its doors owing to lack of funding. Now Acción Social Comunitaria, a local nonprofit that offers a broad array of social services for low-income minority groups, is "on hold" after William Chignoli, the organization's founder and executive director, resigned from his leadership position last week.Chignoli, who was profiled i
