Local Control Being Debated
HAPPENING RIGHT NOW…
JEFFERSON CITY — As St. Louis Police Chief Joe Mokwa and Police Board President Chris Goodson roamed the halls of the state Capitol today lobbying against a senate bill calling for a return of local control of the St. Louis Police Department on an unrelated issue, a group of city lawmakers were lobbying [...]
Board Hires Reed Aide as Attorney [Updated]
Following the sudden resignation of Denise Watson-Wesley Coleman as attorney and clerk for the St. Louis Board of Aldermen, in a closed session this morning, the board quickly hired a member of the Aldermanic President to fill the position.
According to documents obtained by PubDef through a “Sunshine Law” request, Dave Sweeney, looks to be getting [...]
Best Intentions: Bad Things Happen When Pols Try to Play Psychologists
Watch out, all you anonymous blog posters who are so mean to Veronica O’Brien, Francis Slay, and Steve Gregali. Pretty soon, you might be prosecuted for your cyber insults.
A proposed new law would make it illegal in the City of St. Louis to harass someone over the Internet or other electronic communications, like texting. “Harassment” [...]
Reed Honored in Hometown Paper
The headline could have read: “Hometown Boy Makes Good”.
St. Louis’ President of the Board of Aldermen was featured Tuesday in his hometown newspaper, The Herald News, which serves Joliet, Illinois, the town a young Lewis Reed started his journey from wrestler and part-time janitor to the second-highest elected official on our city.
The current president of [...]
Board’s Racial Tension Mirrors City’s
Friday’s unseasonal upper-80-degree temperatures weren’t the only reason things were hot in the Board of Aldermen meeting yesterday. Racial tensions are high in the City of St. Louis following Mayor Francis Slay’s removal of the city’s first black fire chief and the subsequent promoting of 25 fire fighters to the rank of captain, 88% of [...]
Aldermen Unanimously Support Mokwa
Crime may have shot up 20% last year, at least $40,000 in cash may have disappeared from the police vault, the number of rapes may have been systematically underreported, the Police Officers Association may be about to state they have “no confidence” in his leadership, he may have officers who steal and resale baseball tickets, [...]
Board of Aldermen Returns
The Board of Aldermen returns from their long summer break this morning. They were scheduled to return last Friday but cancelled the meeting so that aldermen could attend the funeral of 10th Ward Alderman Joe Vollmer’s father.
Today will mark the first meeting for new Board Clerk and Attorney Denise Watson-Wesley Coleman.
Here’s today’s agenda. Meeting starts [...]
Bosnian President Visits City Hall
Fourteenth Ward Alderman Stephen Gregali played tour guide yesterday for the visiting president of Bosnia-Herzegovina. After leaving the mayor’s office, President Zeljko Komsic got a tour of the Aldermanic chamber.
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Board Hires New Attorney
“The Board has hired a new attorney,” Alderman Steve Conway told reporters in the hall outside the Board of Aldermen chamber. “Denise Watson-Wesley Coleman.”
Coleman is the first African American ever to hold the important attorney/clerk position. Her selection, which occurred in a closed session this morning, comes as a compromise after the board was divided [...]
VIDEO: What Was Bosley Thinking?
With the Black Caucus and its allies clearly with the votes to hire the Board attorney of their choice, and the opposition, led by Alderman Steve Conway, forced into desperation, shouting and disorder, Alderman and Caucus member Freeman Bosley, Sr. abruptly calls for adjournment.
The looks of his stunned colleagues could only be described as… “WTF?”
The [...]
