From the daily archives:

Thursday, November 19, 2009

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. [click to continue…]

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Missouri receives federal dollars for “green” jobs training

by Steve Walsh 11/19/09 7:06 PM

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 [...]

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Chattin’ about Cy Young and rippin’ on Chase Daniel

by Bill Pollock 11/19/09 3:32 PM

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 [...]

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Tim Lincecum beats out Carpenter, Wainwright for Cy Young

by Bill Pollock 11/19/09 2:13 PM

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 [...]

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Pitcher Brad Thompson jumps across the state

by Bill Pollock 11/19/09 1:51 PM

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.

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