2006

It’s Election Day on Tuesday, Nov. 7, and St. Louis Public Schools students will exercise their right to vote in a mock election. Students will be casting their ballots for candidates in key state and…

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…

READ IT HERE FIRST A Circuit Court judge today ruled against the group seeking to recall 3rd Ward Alderman Freeman Bosley, Sr. The judge ruled that the St. Louis City Board of Elections does have…

At the last meeting of the St. Louis City School Board, the board majority surprised many by voting to drop the word "interim" off the title of new Superintendent Diana Bourisaw, effectively making her the…

Are you a teacher who wants to report something that's going on in your classroom? Good or bad. Are you a student who's seen something happen at your school? Do you work at 801 and…

A story in today’s New York Times calls attention to the shift on K Street following last week’s elections. Quoted in the story is Steve Elmendorf, a longtime aide to former St. Louis Congressman Richard…

At a meeting of the Missouri Legislative Black Caucus yesterday in Jefferson City, legislators debated over whether current chairman, State Rep. John Bowman, should be allowed to keep the post during the upcoming session. According…

Comedian and radio talk-show host Al Franken will be doing a live broadcast of his Air America radio show from the campus of Washington University next week. Franken, an outspoken liberal and a favorite target…

In one of his last acts as an alderman, License Collector-elect Mike McMillan announced Wednesday over $600,000 in grants for local organizations and businesses. “The wide variety of projects funded by these grants will benefit…

Congressman Lacy Clay has issued the following statement in response the report released yesterday by the Iraq Study Group: “The report issued by the bipartisan Iraq Study Group vindicates what I have been saying for…