2007

The Post-Dispatch reports today that Representative Nathan Cooper (R-Cape Girardeau) will resign from the legislature within weeks. The resignation comes after Cooper pleaded guilty to visa fraud and making a false statement to the Department…

BREAKING NEWS — READ IT HERE FIRST Nearly two years after the allegations were first made, the Circuit Attorney’s office filed charges today against the people alleged to have forged the signatures of 22nd Ward…

Teamster President James P. Hoffa will be in town tomorrow to announce the union’s support of Attorney General Jay Nixon in his gubernatorial bid. Hoffa will make the official announcement tomorrow at 1:00 PM at…

About 30 demonstrators, ranging from children to senior citizens, held signs outside of Senator Kit Bond’s office in Clayton yesterday afternoon calling for reauthorization of the State Children’s Health Insurance Plan (SCHIP). The group hoped…

From Congressman Lacy Clay: “The appalling hypocrisy of this President has reached a new low. It is disgraceful that a man who has spent half a trillion dollars on an unnecessary and tragic war, now…

Audio files from the Missouri House Communications Department: Report from Dick Aldrich, House Public Information Specialist State Rep Jamilah Nasheed on the need for more planning Bill sponsor Ron Richard on solving an inner city…

Katherine Wessling and David Lee Jackson, Jr. easily won seats on the St. Louis Board of Education tonight with 37 and 30 percent of the vote respectively. Proposition P also passed easily with 70 percent…

After getting a free ride through most of his two terms in office, and benefiting from years of praise (deserved and undeserved) for the work of entrepreneurs and developers who’ve been rebuilding and repopulating downtown,…

I’m hoping it was overlooked because of the busy news week and not because you people only like controversy, but the least-watched video this week was Gabe’s great piece on a group of local kids…

On Monday, Pine Lawn became the first town in Missouri to ban sagging pants. According to the ordinance, pants are illegally sagging if they show underwear or skin below the waist. This law applies to…