2007

PubDef.TV has been updated with all of our videos from the ongoing student sit-in demonstration in City Hall. Watch these exclusive videos and listen to students talk about this week’s events in their own words…

A group of Missouri lawmakers are preparing to fight a potential ballot initiative anti-affirmative action groups are trying to put before voters in 2008 targeting colleges admission standards, employment opportunities and access to public contracts…

As expected, State Rep. Fred Kratky has resigned. According to an email obtained by PubDef.net, written from St. Louis City Elections Director Scott Leiendecker to the Governor’s Office, Kratky resigned “on or about Friday, June…

Following revelations last week that Streets Department employees have been working on private jobs on public time and with public equipment, another city worker, Sterling McKinney, told Channel 4 News of how three years ago…

Former U.S. Senator Tom Eagleton passed away today. From Wikipedia: Thomas Francis Eagleton (September 4, 1929 – March 4, 2007) was a United States Senator from Missouri, serving from 1969 until 1987. He is best…

SLAY SHARES WITH DEVLIN — The mayor and the man accused of kidnapping two boys have something (or someone) in common: Richard Callow. According to Jake Wagman, Mayor Francis Slay is allowing his number one…

The following is a statement from Comptroller Darlene Green on the March 2007 primary: “Congratulations to Lewis on this historic victory. I look forward to working with him on E & A and at the…

Press release from the Green Party… “More than anyone else, Willie Marshall was responsible for bringing a Black perspective to the Green Party,” says Party activist Barbara Chicherio. Willie Marshall passed while asleep early July…