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Dick has 30 years experience as an award winning reporter, editor and writing coach, most of them at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
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The Best Stories You've nEver Read #68
When couples split the home is a hot potato -- Miami Herald
Divorcing couples frequently fight over who gets the house. In the era of falling home prices and looming foreclosures, they are saying... you take it...
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-- Dick Weiss
The Best Stories You've nEver Read #67
Tears to remember -- New York Times
A poignant essay from Times columnist Judith Warner on what Obama's victory means to her generation and her children's. Be sure to scroll down to look at the photograph embedded in the text.
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-- Dick Weiss
The Best Stories You've nEver Read #66
It wasn't dad -- St. Louis Post-Dispatch
From the hometown newspaper, a most remarkable story about a mix-up at a funeral home.
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The Best Stories You've nEver Read #65
Appeal to the news junkies -- American Journalism Review
Philip Meyer says a smaller, less frequently published version of the daily newspaper packed with analysis and investigative reporting and aimed at well-educated news junkies may well be a smart survival strategy for the beleaguered old print product.
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The Best Stories You've nEver Read #64
The state of Sarah Palin -- The New Yorker
Sarah Palin isn't doing many interviews and when she does she's well scripted. But New Yorker scribe Philip Gourevitch interviewed Palin in late July before she got the VP nod and what he learned is interesting and revealing. He presents a nuanced portrait of Palin and politics in Alaska.
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-- Dick Weiss
Helen Weiss -- PR Maven Extraordinaire
We celebrated the life of our dear mother and your wonderful friend, Helen Weiss, on Friday, September 12 at Central Reform Congregation in St. Louis. The eulogies were beautiful and we are reprinting them here. Click the read more link below.
Dick and Jean
The Best Stories You've nEver Read #63
An apology on behalf of the media -- Politico
Political columnist Roger Simon says he's sorry for the way the media has treated Sarah Palin. Well, not really.
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The Best Stories You've nEver Read #62
A black market for soccer fields? -- Los Angeles Times
A sad commentary on our times: A black market in soccer fields. "Cities throughout Southern California -- Los Angeles, Long Beach and Garden Grove among them -- have had problems with field brokering, in which soccer leagues with permits for public fields trade, bargain or even sell their allotted time and space," says reporter Tony Barboza of the Los Angeles Times.
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-- Dick Weiss
Conventional Coverage In Extraordinary Times
The Post-Dispatch cuts content but sends a bunch of reporters to Denver
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch announced more cuts in content Monday, but is still covering politics aggressively. That's a good thing, Dick Weiss tellsMcGraw Milhaven on the McGraw Show on KTRS (550-AM).
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The Best Stories You've nEver Read #61
Sold for $380,200, now appraised at $125,000
Would you buy a Florida condo for $380,000 sight unseen? Well maybe if you were promised a boatload of renters and a chance to flip it pretty quickly for a profit. Sounds like a deal too good to be true and it was. Click on the link above to read this fine story in the Orlando Sentinel by Mary Shanklin and Vicki McClure.
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