2006

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…

VIDEO: Board Gets a Better Budget By Antonio D. French Lost in all the talk about the downsizing that left Floyd Irons unemployed (if only temporarily) is the fact that this week the St. Louis…

James Brown, The Godfather of Soul, has died. And Resurrection Lutheran Church, on the corner of West Florissant and Fair Avenues in north St. Louis, was destroyed by fire last night. Click here to see…

Some voters in south St. Louis received an anonymous automated phone call today telling them to vote for anyone but Jeff Smith in Tuesday’s state senate election. Many Smith supporters immediately pointed the finger at…

A letter from Peter Downs, school board member and founder of The St. Louis Schools Watch:As one of the seven school board members, who must vote on the disposition of the ROTC program currently at…

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…

Last Tuesday’s elections have made our celebrity junior senator to the east even more relevant. Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) today announced that next year he will serve on four influential committees: the Senate Foreign Relations…

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,…

The president of the St. Louis teachers union addressed the school board and the district's superintendent last night to defend her members from what she said were unwarranted attacks.Mary Armstrong, president of Local 420, reminded…