BEVERLY HILLS - Retired McDonnell Douglas supervisor Bob Beckring began trying in August to get a breakdown of his north St. Louis County fire district’s legal fees and two items on the district’s budget: $100000 for public relations and $60000 for "special projects."
MARCH 3 2009 - David A. Peacock President of Anheuser-Busch Cos. poses for a photograph at the company's headquarters building in south St. Louis. (Elie Gardner/P-D)
At this year's holiday break as I pause for a little while am still fixated on one crisis -- the conflict and humanitarian disaster still unfolding in the Democratic Republic of Congo.