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Sherman A1's JournalOn Chess: Teen Dominates US Women's Championship While Veteran Claims Fifth Title In Open Section T
The U.S. Chess Championship and U.S. Women’s Championship are the marquee events of American chess and for the last 11 years, the St. Louis Chess Club has been hosting both events at their illustrious club.
This year’s edition has been the strongest championship in history, with a record five players over the 2700 rating threshold. The U.S. Women’s Championship has had a tale of its own, with an eclectic mix of new and experienced players setting the stage for what would become one of the most exciting national championships in history.
The open section quickly saw the top-rated favorites build a significant edge over the field, with Hikaru Nakamura and Leinier Domínguez leading the charge.
https://news.stlpublicradio.org/post/chess-teen-dominates-us-women-s-championship-while-veteran-claims-fifth-title-open-section
On Chess: Teen Dominates US Women's Championship While Veteran Claims Fifth Title In Open Section
The U.S. Chess Championship and U.S. Women’s Championship are the marquee events of American chess and for the last 11 years, the St. Louis Chess Club has been hosting both events at their illustrious club.
This year’s edition has been the strongest championship in history, with a record five players over the 2700 rating threshold. The U.S. Women’s Championship has had a tale of its own, with an eclectic mix of new and experienced players setting the stage for what would become one of the most exciting national championships in history.
The open section quickly saw the top-rated favorites build a significant edge over the field, with Hikaru Nakamura and Leinier Domínguez leading the charge.
https://news.stlpublicradio.org/post/chess-teen-dominates-us-women-s-championship-while-veteran-claims-fifth-title-open-section
Cumulative voting in Ferg-Flor, school board diversity unchanged as black challenger unseats black i
Election results on Tuesday, April 2 suggest that federal court-ordered cumulative voting in the Ferguson-Florissant School District as a means to bring more diversity to its school board did not work as intended – at least not this time around.
There were three candidates, two black and one white, vying for two positions, which meant one black candidate would win regardless. In the end, Leslie Suzanne Hogshead, a white incumbent, won with the most votes, 5,667 votes or 43.29 percent. A black challenger, Sheila Powell-Walker, came in second with 3,769 votes or 28.79 percent, removing a black incumbent, Connie Harge (3,565 votes or 27.23 percent) from the board.
Cumulative voting meant that voters could cast their two votes for one candidate, if they wished. The only white candidate on the ballot campaigned in an effort to make this change – intended to give black voters a greater voice – work to her benefit.
Hogshead, who has been on the board since 1992, used campaign signage that read “Vote Twice for Experience.” On April 1 she posted on Facebook, “Please remember to vote for me and remember vote 2 times.”
http://www.stlamerican.com/news/local_news/cumulative-voting-in-ferg-flor-school-board-diversity-unchanged-as/article_3e7bc958-5642-11e9-9d7a-77058f2e1260.html
Relieved To Have A School Funding Plan, Kansas Lawmakers Await The Court
UPDATE: Saturday, with a crowd of teachers looking on, Gov. Kelly signed a school funding bill she hopes will end years of court battles between the state and local school districts.
It took a fight, but the Kansas House and Senate have agreed to the school funding hikes Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly called for. Now, lawmakers will wait to see if it’s enough to satisfy the state’s highest court.
“By investing in our local schools, we can ensure that all Kansas children – no matter who they are or where they live – have the opportunity to succeed,” Kelly said in a statement touting the bill’s passage.
It’s a victory for Kelly, who campaigned on school funding promises.
https://www.kcur.org/post/relieved-have-school-funding-plan-kansas-lawmakers-await-court
Curious Louis answers: What happens to all those used baseballs at Busch Stadium?
Editor's note: This story was originally published Aug. 22, 2018.
What happens to all those used baseballs the umpires toss out of games at Busch Stadium?
After Keith Duncan of St. Louis submitted that question to our Curious Louis feature, we went to the Aug. 16 game between the Cardinals and Washington Nationals to find out.
That’s where we found Ralph Toenjes hard at work, happily greeting fans at the Authentics Shop, located behind center field. Toenjes sells memorabilia, including used baseballs, fresh from the field. During games, it’s his job to fetch baseballs from the Cardinals dugout every two or three innings.
“That's really a cool part of my job,’’ Toenjes said. “I get to be right there where the players are in the dugout, and sometimes I have to wait for the inning to end, which means I'm right there by the action.’’
The playing career of a baseball is brief. A fair share end up in the stands. Umpires discard dozens of others after they’ve been dinged by a bat or bounced in the dirt. The Cardinals prepare 120 baseballs for every game. On an average game day, between 40 and 60 used baseballs will end up in the Authentics Shop.
https://news.stlpublicradio.org/post/curious-louis-answers-what-happens-all-those-used-baseballs-busch-stadium
Curious Louis Answers 4 More Questions About Proposed City-County Merger
The group Better Together submitted its proposal for a merger of St. Louis and St. Louis County in January. The plan calls for a statewide vote in 2020, when Missouri residents would decide on the future of the city and county. The plan would consolidate several municipal functions including police departments, a prosecutor and an assessor.
Residents of the city and country continue to have question regarding the merger, which would consolidate several key functions of the St. Louis and St. Louis County region.
The plan has also spurred both praise and criticism. Many have asked how this plan will impact their way of life and affect political power.
https://news.stlpublicradio.org/post/curious-louis-answers-4-more-questions-about-proposed-city-county-merger
Curious Louis answers: What happens to all those used baseballs at Busch Stadium?
Editor's note: This story was originally published Aug. 22, 2018.
What happens to all those used baseballs the umpires toss out of games at Busch Stadium?
After Keith Duncan of St. Louis submitted that question to our Curious Louis feature, we went to the Aug. 16 game between the Cardinals and Washington Nationals to find out.
That’s where we found Ralph Toenjes hard at work, happily greeting fans at the Authentics Shop, located behind center field. Toenjes sells memorabilia, including used baseballs, fresh from the field. During games, it’s his job to fetch baseballs from the Cardinals dugout every two or three innings.
“That's really a cool part of my job,’’ Toenjes said. “I get to be right there where the players are in the dugout, and sometimes I have to wait for the inning to end, which means I'm right there by the action.’’
The playing career of a baseball is brief. A fair share end up in the stands. Umpires discard dozens of others after they’ve been dinged by a bat or bounced in the dirt. The Cardinals prepare 120 baseballs for every game. On an average game day, between 40 and 60 used baseballs will end up in the Authentics Shop.
https://news.stlpublicradio.org/post/curious-louis-answers-what-happens-all-those-used-baseballs-busch-stadium
Childhood Asthma Rates Are Highest In North St. Louis, Wash U Study Finds
A Washington University study has shown that more than a dozen north St. Louis neighborhoods have high rates of childhood asthma.
The study, soon to be published in the journal Social Science & Medicine, identified five ZIP codes in St. Louis that are hot spots for childhood asthma, meaning that they contain clusters for the city's highest rates of the illness. The report used census and health data from multiple government agencies.
The rate of hospitalizations for childhood asthma for those ZIP codes, which include downtown St. Louis, Baden and North Riverfront neighborhoods, are five times that of two ZIP codes in southwest St. Louis, which have the lowest presence of the illness.
The hot spots highlighted in the paper are home to mostly black and low-income residents. Health care resources are more scarce in those areas than in other parts of the city, said Kelly Harris, a postdoctoral researcher at Washington University’s Child Health and Education Laboratory.
https://news.stlpublicradio.org/post/childhood-asthma-rates-are-highest-north-st-louis-wash-u-study-finds
St. Louis Holocaust Museum Preserves Survivors' Stories In Interactive Online Archive
https://news.stlpublicradio.org/post/st-louis-holocaust-museum-preserves-survivors-stories-interactive-online-archiveFor years, the cassette tapes gathered dust. The original master recordings were squirreled away in storage, with lesser-sounding copies made available to scholars upon request.
Now, a collection of 144 interviews with Holocaust survivors is available for easy access on the website of St. Louis’s Holocaust Museum & Learning Center.
The online archive includes photos and timelines depicting each interviewee’s story in addition to newly digitized recordings of the interviews.
It offers immediate access to the stories of people with ties to the St. Louis region who lived through the Holocaust — the systematic, state-sponsored persecution and mass murder of Jews and other groups perpetrated by the Nazi-led German government and its collaborators before and during World War II.
St. Louis Holocaust Museum Preserves Survivors' Stories In Interactive Online Archive
For years, the cassette tapes gathered dust. The original master recordings were squirreled away in storage, with lesser-sounding copies made available to scholars upon request.
Now, a collection of 144 interviews with Holocaust survivors is available for easy access on the website of St. Louis’s Holocaust Museum & Learning Center.
The online archive includes photos and timelines depicting each interviewee’s story in addition to newly digitized recordings of the interviews.
It offers immediate access to the stories of people with ties to the St. Louis region who lived through the Holocaust — the systematic, state-sponsored persecution and mass murder of Jews and other groups perpetrated by the Nazi-led German government and its collaborators before and during World War II.
https://news.stlpublicradio.org/post/st-louis-holocaust-museum-preserves-survivors-stories-interactive-online-archive
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