“I’d like to thank all the little people…”
The folks at St. Louis Magazine were nice enough to send two attractive women over today to present me with a plaque and a couple of early copies of their July issue, which includes yours truly on its annual “A-List”.
Thank you to the editors for taking note of our efforts. And thanks especially to the thousands of people who read this blog regularly and care enough about what’s going on around us to search for information, work on campaigns, and (if you’re really nuts) run for office.
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June 22nd, 2007 at 2:08 pm
Congratulations!!! Well deserved.
June 22nd, 2007 at 3:07 pm
Congratulations, great picture!
June 22nd, 2007 at 3:17 pm
Congrats! You beat me again!
June 22nd, 2007 at 3:20 pm
Congratulations Mr. French. Keep up the good work!
June 22nd, 2007 at 3:27 pm
You didn’t thank you piano teacher.
Congratulations. This is really great.
June 22nd, 2007 at 3:46 pm
Congrats from City Hall.
June 22nd, 2007 at 4:03 pm
Congrats from Jefferson City
June 22nd, 2007 at 5:23 pm
Congratulations. Nice photo. Nice honor.
June 22nd, 2007 at 9:39 pm
Congratulations and hope your site is still around for a long time.
June 23rd, 2007 at 6:26 am
I can’t believe you beat me and that potato blog for that matter. Good for you and nice camera!
June 23rd, 2007 at 7:56 am
Well deserved. Keep keepin’ it real, ADF!
Margie
June 23rd, 2007 at 1:15 pm
I am relieved that my posts did not disqualify you from this honor.
Take this as constructive criticism—and it goes for all of st. louis’ media—I wish there was some place to regularly address loose ends. Stories thrown out there and abandoned without explanation.(that happens less here, than anywhere i know of)Here is an example regarding mohela, first posted here:
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State Rep. Clint Zweifel (D-Florissant) is currently leading an effort to oppose the bill by gathering the 87,000 signatures needed to put the plan on the 2008 ballot in order for the public to decide.
No response when i asked for follow up.
Finally, I saw some people bragging about zweiful on arch city–he seems like a good guy– I got a little rude:
I want to FIND OUT IF:
1. He was going to do this, but it has been dropped.
2. He is still working on this.
3. It was bad information posted on pubdef—he knows nothing about what was posted in first place.
A guy named patrick responded—
The Post-Dispatch did follow the story. The ballot language was eventually filed by a former MOHELA board member, not Zweifel.
That individual later withdrew the language when no monetary support came forward.
Posted by: Patrick on Saturday, June 23, 2007 at 11:32 am
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Allan Purdy is the former board member.
Posted by: Patrick on Saturday, June 23, 2007 at 11:36 am
I could not find anything about the ballot thing, or allan purdy(no relation to Bill?)when I searched the pd.
So—I have this loose end kind of tied up—
June 23rd, 2007 at 3:26 pm
St. Louis Magazine, WTF?
June 23rd, 2007 at 6:01 pm
Congrats Antonio. I don’t always agree with your point of view, but thanks for putting it out there. You provide a great service to our community - a forum for expressing and exchanging opinions.
June 23rd, 2007 at 8:45 pm
Glad to see excellence recognized.
t
June 24th, 2007 at 2:10 pm
Congrats…but why not a picture of the two attractive women!?!
June 24th, 2007 at 5:26 pm
Very well-deserved! I have come to rely on this site for the “real news.” I’ve often wondered if you have some clones because somehow you cover so many political happenings! Do you ever sleep??
June 24th, 2007 at 8:06 pm
No resting on your laurels—new assignment—–the associated press story in the Post Dispatch today talked about the 2500 Missouri students signed up for virtual school over their home computers.
No explanation of a previous story saying the company it is outsourced to has hired no teachers.
The pd has never , to my knowledge, said anything about slps having their own virtual school setup. Maybe the new board has dropped the idea—it would be an embarrassment to Blunt if they did it better than he did.
June 25th, 2007 at 9:28 am
Hey thats great! They gave you a plaque for that? Cool!
June 25th, 2007 at 11:29 pm
i have only been reading since Spring 07, but have to say that you really capture the spirit of the political melee in Eastern Missouri. Please keep up the good work. Good to see another writer on board. Keep expanding!
June 26th, 2007 at 5:46 am
You deserve the honor and recognition for all the work you do.
Thank you!