1. Video portfolio

    A constantly updated collection of video journalism produced for the web site of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch


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  2. Putting You(tube) in the democratic process

    Hot bursts of light flashed across the Edward Jones Dome as Sen. Barack Obama walked the stage. Hundreds snapped pictures; others shot video from cell phones. At least one man turned his back to Obama and delivered his own brief speech into a video camera in support of the Illinois Democrat. Miles Bateman, a retired Air Force master sergeant and Baptist minister from Trenton, in Clinton County, was about to become a political commentator by posting his video on the YouTube website.


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  3. Issues 2008: The presidential campaigns

    A multimedia package showcasing the core issues of the campaign and how they intersect in the lives of voters and stakeholders.


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  4. Fighting for millions of you or millions of dollars

    A pack of Marlboro Lights looks a lot like it did years ago. There's the gold crest of Philip Morris, and the surgeon general's warning-quitting smoking is better for your health. But one phrase emblazoned on packages for decades-"Lowered Tar & Nicotine"-is gone. Lawyer Stephen Tillery asserts he is largely responsible.


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  5. A huge sacrifice; poisoned Cold War workers wait for payment

    MADISON—From the outside, the hulking former Dow Chemical metalworks is a stark reminder of the nation's once-booming industrial sector, of a time when a factory job was a ticket to the good life.


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  6. Highland mulls going it alone

    This small farm town has about had it with its Internet options, and its city manager is proposing a technological leap of faith. The city will be asked to consider building its own fiber optic network, connected to every home and business, offering faster Internet and better TV and phone services, and all of it possibly cheaper. It would be a huge step for rural Highland, population 9,373, that will cost millions before ever turning a net profit.


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  7. What's happened to Decatur?

    DECATUR, Ill. —As movers loaded a giant orange truck, John Ernest and Pam Richart stood inside the empty home of their parents-and of their childhoods. Their family's time in Decatur was about to end.


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  8. Merck off the hook in Madison County

    EDWARDSVILLE—Although they cleared drug maker Merck of liability for the death of a 52-year-old woman who took the company's recalled painkiller Vioxx, a Madison County jury Tuesday painted a muddled picture for future litigation involving the drug.


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  9. First days in office are a whirlwind

    SPRINGFIELD—On his first day as state treasurer, Alexi Giannoulias has been mostly on display-at the swearing-in, in his office, and at a reception. He's going to spend the next couple hours doing more of the same at the state's inaugural ball.


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  10. 'We are Hezbollah. They are us' / Militant group tries to topple government

    MALIKEYA, Lebanon—Every now and then, Mustafa Rida hears a boom echo across the lemon, orange and olive orchards that surround his tiny village some 10 miles from the border with Israel. It's the sound of troops detonating an unexploded bomb, left over from the Israel's offensive last summer against the militant group Hezbollah. Rida, a 72-year-old farmer, still has an Israeli leaflet dropped from the sky that warned him to leave his home as Israel pursued the guerrilla fighters.


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