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stlbeacon.org — WASHINGTON - With congressional probes of the Internal Revenue Service and Benghazi likely to remain in the spotlight, both allies and critics of President Barack Obama are predicting that fallout from the revelations could endanger key parts of his second-term agenda. While U.S. Sen.

stlbeacon.org — When state Rep. Scott Fitzpatrick tweeted earlier this month that this year's veto session would be "interesting," he may have made the understatement of the year. Jo Mannies I St. Louis Beacon The Shell Knob Republican's quip was a more than tacit acknowledgement that the Missouri General Assembly sent numerous bills to Gov.

stlbeacon.org — When DeTony Thomas was in fourth grade, four long years ago, he went to a school that sounds like the model for a badly clichéd movie about the problems with modern urban education. He saw a new fight every day, he says, and there wasn't a whole lot of homework.