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Almost four dozen southwest Missouri school districts are wrapping up a special week focusing on improving high school graduation rates. The effort is considered a pilot project that could go statewide.
The thought behind the “graduation matters” effort is to plant the idea of graduation in students’ minds when they’re young and to create a community graduation climate led by faith-based organizations, business groups, schools, parents, and others. [Read more...]
Missouri has been awarded more than $1.2 million in federal economic stimulus money to help train people for so-called green jobs. The money is headed to the Missouri Department of Economic Development, which will have its Missouri Economic Research and Information Center (MERIC) use the funding to collect and analyze labor market information to assess its impact in energy efficiency and renewable energy industries. [Read more...]
Earlier in the summer I picked Zack Greinke and Chris Carpenter to win the Cy Young Award. Steve Walsh, who works on the news side of picked Tim Lincecum on the NL side. He bombed on C.C. for the AL, but anyway we kick around the results and decide if Adam Wainwright and Chris Carpenter got a raw deal.
We also take a couple of shots at our collegue Brent Martin (who was unable to make it on this podcast due to a domestic emergency…nothing serious) who is a homer for the Royals so he went with Grienke. I thought he may have had the sweep since he picked Wainwright, but none of us could pick both winners.
I also take exception to Chase Daniel, now the third string quarterback on New Orleans for the lame interviews he gives. I’m calling him the new “Nuke” Laloosh. Remember him from Bull Durham?
Anyway, Steve asked him some great questions after the Rams-Saints game and he gave lame answers. I’ve got the interview on this week’s Pressbox Podcast.
All I heard this week was that this NL Cy Young Award could go to three different pitchers, but in the end most experts defaulted to St. Louis Cardinals starting pitcher Adam Wainwright…they were wrong. Tim Lincecum of San Francisco won his second Cy Young Award in back to back years the first to do it since Randy Johnson in 2002.
The Kansas City Royals have agreed to terms with right-handed pitcher Brad Thompson to a minor league contract for the 2010 season. Thompson who is 27 years old was a versatile arm for the Cardinals over the past five seasons making 185 appearance, with 32 of those being starts.
Thompson was 21-17 with a 4.36 ERA.
