St. Louis Post-Dispatch

St. Louis, Missouri Interagency Smart City Program Need & Readiness Assessment While the Department of Transportation provided explicit criteria for evaluating a city’s merit to receive support under its Smart City sharing economy program, Smart City programs being offered by other agencies did not. The following review of select programs within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Department of Commerce (DOC), Department of Energy (DOE), and Department of Justice (DOJ) applies the…

Vladimir Tarasenko has been deemed as an elite shooter, now he is proving it through the stats in his ice hockey career. He is on the St. Louis Blues, and is a right winger, who has the most points on his team. He is from a city in Russia, called Yaroslavl, where he first learned how to play the sport of ice hockey. This is his sixth season with the St. Louis Blues and his sixth season in the National Hockey League. Vladimir Tarasenko was born in Yaroslavl, Russia (The Soviet Union…

Louis that could attract a Major League Soccer team to the city. Per Koran Addo of the St. Louis Post Dispatch, “The private ownership group SC STL originally put together a plan calling for taxpayers to fund $80 million and private investors to spend roughly $95 million to build a 22,000-seat stadium west of Union Station.” (Addo, 2017) Soccer fans in the area have been excited about the possibility of a professional team coming to St. Louis. It would create more jobs…

Highway Patrol’s Statistical Analysis Center, in 2014 there were 2,379 offenses of rape reported and 402 offenses of homicide. (Johnson, B., 2015) Homicide According to the The St. Louis Dispatch, the city of St. Louis experienced 159 murders in 2014, which was a major increase from 2013 homicide statistics for St. Louis. (Sableman, 2015) To combat this issue all Missouri police departments will begin utilizing a tactic called, focused deterrence or ‘pulling levers policing’. Focused…

Web. 2 Nov. 2015. Kenneth Cooper is a Pulitzer Prize winner, has been an newspaper reporter and editor for roughly thirty years. Cooper specializes in government, politics and social policy, at the Washington Post, Boston Globe, Knight Ridder, St. Louis American, and St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Cooper’s article “Should College Athletes Be Paid to Play?” discusses the opinion of two Michigan State Law professors Amy and Robert McCormick and how according to the U.S. labor law, college athletes…

The Pulitzer Prize came about as part of an attempt by newspaperman Joseph Pulitzer to upgrade the profession of journalism. Pulitzer, the owner of the New York world and the St. Louis Post- Dispatch, made a proposal in 1903 to Columbia University for the dual purposes of establishing a school of journalism at the university and also establishing prizes for exceptional work in journalism and other fields. However, the university didn’t initially respond as one might to expect to such a seemingly…

a small public outrage over the censorship, or rather “un-censorship”, in a St. Louis sexual assault case. A sexual assault victim’s name was revealed in a story about her sexual assault in the St. Louis post dispatch. It had revealing information like exactly what she drank, how she had blacked out, who she was with that night and what man allegedly raped her. It even published her job and who employed her. (Post-Dispatch Shamed Victim, June 25,…

There are few things in sports journalism that I’m more comfortable with than a beat. My experience – primarily in college as a writer, then editor, of the Daily Bruin at UCLA – has been shaped by the beat system. UCLA’s strongest athletic teams are often the Olympic sports rather than football or men’s basketball, and the Daily Bruin is lucky to have a large enough staff to fully cover all of those teams. Since my first day in the Sports Department as a contributor on the men’s water polo beat…

My little brother is often chastised by my parents for playing on his video games too much. Although he might enjoy his time playing on his devices more than talking with his family, I could never imagine him becoming the killer, especially not because of a Super Mario game. Video games do not create murderers, a person's’ social situation and mental state does. The title itself: “Do Video Games Kill?” revealed what the author was going to be discussing in her essay and drew a curious audience…

Diana Frances Spencer in many people’s eyes was only a Princess, but in reality, she was so much more. Diana was a mother, a sister, a friend and overall a great woman and the most adored member of the British royal family. “Diana served as a strong supporter of many charities and worked to help the homeless, people living with HIV and AIDS, and children in need” (Princess Diana-Princess, Children’s Activist, par. 7).The death of Princess Diana is surrounded with controversy. In the minds of…