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St. Louis family fights to reclaim art stolen by the N***s decades ago ST. LOUIS — When Vera Emmons was growing up in suburban Chicago, the topic of family art treasures stolen by the N***s was hardly at the forefront of her life. She knew her mother, Gerda Nothmann, had survived concentration camps and made it to the United States, rebuilding her life and letting pe...

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My granddaughter Gracie is getting ready for election day. You can too by visiting Beyond November's Voters' Guide at beyondnovember.org

Friends: We are just a couple of days from the Missouri Primary and I am hoping you will surf over to BeyondNovember.org. It is a website that focuses on elections and issues in our region and part of a unique collaboration involving the St. Louis Beacon, the Nine Network of Public Media and St. Louis Public Radio. I am the managing editor.

You will find on the site a robust voters' guide. Punch in your address and up come bios and answers to questions posed by our reporters from candidates on your ballot. You can also learn where the candidates are getting their money and political support.

I hope you will also look at Back Fence (click on the commentary tab) -- a dialogue between friends and neighbors who disagree. Good friends Emory Kestaloot and Art Perry go toe-to-toe digitally on the Affordable Care Act. I'm looking for more participants for Back Fence to discuss other issues. Would you like to participate? Find a buddy, neighbor or family you disagree with politically and we'll make it happen.

Please give BeyondNovember.org a test drive in the next 48 hours and follow our primary night coverage on Tuesday. I would be very grateful if you would send me comments. Criticism appreciated.

St. Louis Beacon Political Roundtable will be broadcast live on KTRS-AM/550 at 9 a.m. Friday. Join the studio audience at Beacon HQ for sweet rolls and coffee beginning at 8. Follow the link to page to RSVP or type Beacon & Eggs in Facebook search.

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Reason #5 to read/support St. Louis Beacon: The incomparable MW Freivogel: editor & winner of Missouri Honor Medal - Distinguished Service. Read a sample from her weekly column here.

Rupert Murdoch's world of scandal Beacon editor Margaret Wolf Freivogel discusses the suspicion cast on all journalists by the reckless excesses of Rupert Murdoch's empire.

Support friend/fellow journalist Rick Desloge of STL BIz Journal, battling pancreatic cancer, in Pedal for the Cause. http://bit.ly/p801W6

Team Desloge Team Profile at Pedal the Cause Team Desloge is biking in the 2011 Pedal the Cause event! Every dollar raised stays in St. Louis and goes directly to cancer research. Please consider donating.

Reason #4 to read/support STL Beacon: Reflection & analysis: In topsy-turvy world, other news orgs. prize velocity over understanding/context.

On McGraw Show 8:35 a.m. Mon. Will discuss media piling on Obama in wake of debt deal; Lee Ent sets up a web paywall, but not in STL yet.

Reason #3 to read/support STL Beacon: Dale Singer, nu grampa like me, prolific, incisive with a keen sense of St. Louis business, education and politics.

Reason #2 to read/support STL Beacon: Jo Mannies, dean of Missouri political reporters -- prolific , relentless, insightful and fairminded.

Reason #1 to read/support STL Beacon: Non-profit run by journalists not corporate moguls. Chairman Dick Weil -- Stan Musial of STL journalists.