ForwardSTL News and Events for Monday, Feb. 27

Upcoming events from the ForwardSTL Calendar (go to the calendar for more details for each event):

Monday, February 27

6:15pm

St. Louis Capoeira Angola

7:00pm

Col. Ann Wright: Ethics and Effects of the Use of Military Drones

7:00pm

Rebuilding schools in post-war Liberia

7:00pm

Earthworms

8:00pm

Reality Now

8:30pm

Collateral Damage

Tuesday, February 28

12:00pm

The Murdock Report

6:30pm

Local Control of St. Louis Police and the Civil War

7:00pm

Amnesty International's Monthly Letter Writing Meeting

7:00pm

Stories of Resilience Community Forum: Homelessness

Wednesday, February 29

8:30am

Conservation Lobby Day 2012

9:00am

PROMO Equality Day 2012

6:00pm

Shut Down the Corporations - Peabody Coal Edition

9:00pm

Pride St. Louis Presents 3rd Annual Pride Idol Karaoke Competition

Thursday, March 1

» 8:00pm

Pride St. Louis Presents 3rd Annual Pride Idol Karaoke Competition

8:30pm

Benefit Concert for Occupy The MidWest at the Jefferson Warehouse

Friday, March 2

10:30am

Storytelling: Elephant Mania

7:00pm

2nd Annual Phil Ochs Tribute

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News and Opinion (click through the link at ForwardSTL for the full stories):

John F. Kennedy discusses the importance of a vigorous press | Dangerous Intersection

Visualizing NorthSide and Seeking Semblance of a Land Banking Strategy in the City of St. Louis | Next STL

Agree or Disagree: Biondi has destroyed the formerly urban midtown area around the Saint Louis University campus | Urban Review STL

Durbin slants left, Blunt right with McCaskill closer to Senate's center | St. Louis Beacon

Matt Taibbi: GOP gets what it has coming | Dangerous Intersection

"The Sky is the Limit" | Fired Up! Missouri

National Museum of African American History and Culture Groundbreaking Ceremony | Mirror on America

Why the gas price story is overblown | Ryan Witt, Examiner

High Broderism | Show Me Progress

More riders take the Metro | St. Louis Public Radio

Democrats running for lieutenant governor to meet in private talks in Jefferson City | St. Louis Beacon

Missouri banks still owe $732 million in TARP funds | St. Louis Business Journal

Immigrants Have Human Rights! | The Impudent Observer

How much freedom do students have on social media? | Gateway Journalism Review

Alice H. Gregory: Department of Revenue Clerk Accused of Taking Bribes to Process False Paperwork | Daily RFT

Poverty, obesity and malnutrition: myth vs. reality | Occasional Planet

Study: prostate cancer rate unusually high in St. Louis County | St. Louis Public Radio

5 Problems with Being a Throwaway Society (Film) | Sustainablog

Downtown’s First Electric Vehicle Charging Station | Urban Review STL

Black & Green, the New Intergration – 5 Names in Urban Ecology you should know | Urban Scientist

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