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By Dale Singer, Beacon staff Was President Obama’s expression of support for same-sex marriage a profile in courage on civil rights or a wrongheaded view on a highly politicized, fundamentally religious issue? Not surprisingly, the reaction to the president’s statement Wednesday depends largely on the prism through which people have viewed the issue since it began. For Helen Hull Hitchcock, president of the group Women for Faith and Family, Obama’s interview was a disappointing stance on a “seriously divisive issue.” She knows that some people describe it as a civil rights question, but she doesn’t see it that way.  By Sydney Meyer, Nine Network PIN analyst On May 2, 2012 a group of interested community members, many of them Public Insight Network sources, gathered at Nine Network of Public Media for a conversation on educational issues. It was a rich and vibrant discussion about the factors that affect our students today and can influence some of them to drop out of school. Click on the video below and listen to part of the conversation. Let us know what you think in the comment section below. We are really interested in your feedback. By Linda Lockhart, St. Louis Beacon PIN analyst If you live in Missouri, Illinois, or any neighboring states, your chances are pretty good for coming under a tornado watch or warning, or even the real thing. This week, the National Weather service confirmed 59 tornadoes over the previous weekend, striking Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska and Oklahoma. Missouri and Illinois came out unscathed — this time. But that wasn’t the case seven weeks earlier, when a tornado blew through Harrisburg, Ill., and left seven people dead, or Joplin, Mo., where a terrible twister killed 161 people last May. In parts of north St. Louis County — including Berkley and Lambert St. Louis International Airport — and the Sunset Hills area in south county, repairs are finally complete, or nearly so, after tornadoes hit those areas over holiday weekends. The north county storm hit last year on Good Friday, which fell on April 22. The south county storm struck on Dec. 31, 2010. However, on Lewis Place, a tiny street in north St. Louis that was also hit by that New Year’s Eve tornado, recovery efforts continue.
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We’re excited to welcome you to the Web site of the Public Insight Network, where we highlight a variety of community perspectives on pressing issues in the St. Louis region. All stories are informed by sources in our Network through their responses to questionnaires related to various topics. Responses through the Network have far-reaching effects, informing stories and projects that appear on this site, on Nine PBS and in the St. Louis Beacon.
