Reporter Lucas Hudson interviews Mayor Francis Slay in this week’s issue of the Vital VOICE.
From Hudson’s intro:
The city’s sweltering racial thermometer portends an all-out political meltdown as Mayor Francis Slay was booed right out of the Old Courthouse by supporters of the city’s ousted first black fire chief, Sherman George, as he gave a speech [...]
Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly is anything but subtle and he let an aide to Senator Barack Obama know exactly how he felt when he couldn’t get immediate access to the Democratic presidential candidate in New Hampshire this weekend.
O’Reilly reportedly got into a physical altercation with Marvin Nicholson, the Obama aide. According to reports, O’Reilly pushed [...]
KSDK Chickens Out Then Tries to Shut Down PubDef
On September 18, Multimedia KSDK, Inc. filed a complaint with YouTube about our posting of a video contrasting a September 13 story by reporter Mike Owens which ended with a promise to air a tape of an allegedly crooked real estate seller “saying he makes regular payments [...]
From KSDK.com: “Slay Says More Needs To Be Done To Address Racial Divide“
St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay told Channel 5 reporter Cordell Whitlock yesterday that he thinks Firefighters Union Local 73, which is white-dominated, and F.I.R.E., the African-American firefighters organization, need to come together.
But as Slay was quick to publicly remind ex-fire chief Sherman George, [...]
According to a survey paid for by the Downtown St. Louis Partnership and reported today by the Post-Dispatch, “those living [downtown] are younger, richer and better educated than the average St. Louisan.”
Just one problem: the mail survey doesn’t include downtown’s largest population: the poor and the homeless.
“Developers say the number of young adults moving to [...]