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Friends: We are just a couple of days from the Missouri Primary and I am hoping you will surf over to BeyondNovember.org. It is a website that focuses on elections and issues in our region and part of a unique collaboration involving the St. Louis Beacon, the Nine Network of Public Media and St. Louis Public Radio. I am the managing editor.

You will find on the site a robust voters' guide. Punch in your address and up come bios and answers to questions posed by our reporters from candidates on your ballot. You can also learn where the candidates are getting their money and political support.

I hope you will also look at Back Fence (click on the commentary tab) -- a dialogue between friends and neighbors who disagree. Good friends Emory Kestaloot and Art Perry go toe-to-toe digitally on the Affordable Care Act. I'm looking for more participants for Back Fence to discuss other issues. Would you like to participate? Find a buddy, neighbor or family you disagree with politically and we'll make it happen.

Please give BeyondNovember.org a test drive in the next 48 hours and follow our primary night coverage on Tuesday. I would be very grateful if you would send me comments. Criticism appreciated.

St. Louis Beacon Political Roundtable will be broadcast live on KTRS-AM/550 at 9 a.m. Friday. Join the studio audience at Beacon HQ for sweet rolls and coffee beginning at 8. Follow the link to page to RSVP or type Beacon & Eggs in Facebook search.

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