St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Aug. 8 Post-Ferguson, some successes and more challenges: In October 2014, Monsanto CEO Hugh Grant, then-president of the business group Civic Progress, told us: "Ferguson is the fracture point that fundamentally changes St. Louis, or else everything crystallizes and nothing changes. In our lifetime, you might not ever have another chance to swing at the fences." He made his remarks as Gov. Jay Nixon was announcing formation of the Ferguson Commission. So having taken its best swing, how well is St. Louis doing? Tuesday marks two years since the police shooting death of 18-year-old Michael Brown touched off months of civil unrest as well as a kind of civic...
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