2007

As dozens, if not hundreds, of St. Louisans head down to Jena, Louisiana today to support the Jena 6, and anti-war protestors settle into the third day of their week-long 24-hour protest outside the St.…

BREAKING NEWS Comptroller Darlene Green, nor Aldermanic President Jim Shrewsbury, would second Mayor Francis Slay’s motion today to approve the lease agreement that would have allowed BJC Hospital to expand into a small portion of…

Governor Matt Blunt today signed the Distressed Areas Land Assemblage Tax Credit Act into law as part of his larger economic development package. Other provisions of the new law include expanding the Quality Jobs Tax…

Crime may have shot up 20% last year, at least $40,000 in cash may have disappeared from the police vault, the number of rapes may have been systematically underreported, the Police Officers Association may be…

Governor Matt Blunt’s nominees for various State department directors were passed out of the Senate Gubernatorial Appointments committee this morning, and will now go to the floor of the State Senate for debate. Among these…

Appearing on a local news show this morning, Mayor Francis Slay said that the U.S. Conference of Mayors had recently voted, in a blind taste test, the City of St. Louis as one of the…

I’m scheduled to be a guest on “Collateral Damage” tonight with hosts D.J. Wilson and Fred Hessel. The show is from 7:00 to 7:30 PM and can be heard on KDHX 88.1 FM or online…

When Gregory F.X. Daly is sworn in this morning as St. Louis’ new Collector of Revenue, it will be the first time in nearly 60 years that someone has risen to that office by virtue…

From the Washington Post: An aide to Sen. Christopher S. Bond (R-Mo.) urged the White House to replace the U.S. attorney in Kansas City, Mo., months before Todd P. Graves’s name was included on a…