2006

The St. Louis City School Board will hold a special closed-door meeting today at 1:00 p.m at the Administrative Building, 801 N. 11th Street. The following agenda was released yesterday:SPECIAL BOARD MEETING AGENDA1. Call to…

IN THE 4TH - More mysterious automated calls are being placed around the district. After calls were made telling voters to vote for anyone but Jeff Smith, the finger was quickly pointed at Derio Gambaro’s…

UPDATE: ACORN representatives tell us today’s press conference has been cancelled because of “new information” regarding a possible agreement between the group and the Board of Elections on the recent letters mailed to voters registered…

by Peter DownsJanuary 8, 2006 –– St. Louis Board of Education is moving quickly to neighborhood children preference for admission to the magnet school in their neighborhood. A proposal to set aside 35% of seats…

A few weeks ago, Susan Montee, the Democratic candidate for State Auditor, sat down with PUB DEF to talk about her “exciting” race to succeed Claire McCaskill. Montee, who is a CPA and currently the…

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…

License Fees received by the City of St. Louis from the St. Louis Cardinals: Actual Tax Receipts 2004 - $3,402,298Actual Tax Receipts 2005 - $4,971,379Revised Tax Estimate 2006 - $5,000,000Official Tax Estimate 2007 - $0…

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…

Republican Leslie Farr has lost his bid to get his party’s nomination for a second run against Congressman Lacy Clay in the 1st District. Mark J. Byrne easily defeated Farr, who had recently become at…

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