2006

EXCLUSIVE | READ IT HERE FIRST Some legislators left today’s meeting of the Legislative Black Causus angry and frustrated. After delaying and rescheduling the meeting at least once today, St. Louis County State Rep. John…

State rep candidate Talibdin El-Amin calls the charges that he is a “deadbeat dad” ridiculous. But he said that these recent allegations have taken a toll on him, his wife, and his children. El-Amin, the…

In a room on the 18th floor of Bank of America Plaza on a rainy Friday afternoon, just hours before the St. Louis Cardinals won the World Championship, the team’s owners, their developer, and Mayor…

DONE FOR A WHILE — Outgoing Senator Jim Talent said Monday he doesn’t intend to seek political office again in the near future, but wasn’t ruling out a later campaign farther down the road. “I…

In a letter to its members, the president and the executive board of the St. Louis City teachers union called the 2005-06 school year one of the most frustrating, demanding, and exhausting that the teachers,…

FLU BE GONE — Almost over the flu and a sunny day outside, we might actually leave the house today — without a pocketful of tissues and cough drops! Wish us luck and send us…

PUB DEF EXCLUSIVE Two days before Election Day, then-U.S. Senate candidate Claire McCaskill met with a small group of black elected officials representing an area of north St. Louis City and was asked to make…

In the wake of the city’s recent tagging as the “most dangerous” in the country, and numerous attempts by City and police officials to downplay crime in the city as affecting only “some neighborhoods,” one…

The School Board will meet tonight at Carr Lane VPA Middle School, 1004 N. Jefferson Avenue. Among the agenda items are a presentation to the "Teachers of the Year" and a vote on a resolution…