By Nikki Weinstein
FOCUS Director of Policy and Community Engagement

According to the Missouri Secretary of State’s office, an initiative petition to change state law in Missouri requires signatures to be obtained from registered voters equal to five percent of the total votes cast in the last gubernatorial election in six of Missouri's nine congressional districts.

By John Wagner
FOCUS Director of Community Policy

Can the St. Louis region be more environmentally friendly?  According to one measure, it couldn’t be much less.

By Nikki Weinstein
FOCUS Director of Policy and Community Engagement

There are people who will try to tell you that affirmative action is past its time.  They are wrong.  We, as a society, still need affirmative action.

By Sonji Young
FOCUS Director of Bridges Across Racial Polarization

The roster of ethnic diversity in Mrs. Adam’s third grade class reads like something out of the United Nations’ Roll Call, including Egypt, Iran, India and Spain, in one of the St. Louis public schools that is working aggressively to embrace the evolving importance of racial equity in the classroom.

By Nikki Weinstein
FOCUS Director of Policy and Community Engagement

The misleadingly named Missouri Civil Rights Initiative (MoCRI) is back with their attempt to rid Missouri of affirmative action.

By Bob Holden
Special to the FOCUS Blog

Now that the elections are over, inaugural celebrations are taking place and the winning candidates are in the process of taking their new place as our representatives, it must be made clear that every single issue is framed in terms of the “dollar cost” or “budget priority”...