“It has been one of the greatest experiences of my life,” she tells SLM.”

“And I told them I was counting on them to call it out,” she said, adding that her students are compassionate, bold, loving, and smart.”

“When we really pull back the layers, people are really more pragmatic than they appear on TV,” she tells SLM.”

“Doing things over and over and over again and expecting a different result is the definition of insanity,” she adds.”

“if we really want to move this region forward, … everybody’s going to have to give up something,” Jones said.”

“There are things that we can do right now, but again, we have to do something different, because it is literally holding our region back,” she says.”

“We’re in our own way, and we can’t seem to get out of our own way,” she says.”

“we seem to just be the ones that always tear each other down,” she says.”

“We have to change that narrative,” she says.”

“My intention here is to bring back the police department under the sweep of departments that are city controlled to work with our other departments to be one again with the City of St. Louis,” Tishaura Jones said.”