2007

Metropolitan Congregation United will host a public forum featuring developer Paul McKee on Thursday, October 25 at 6:30 PM at the Holy Trinity Church at 3518 North 14th Street. McKee will speak about his plans…

“The Board has hired a new attorney,” Alderman Steve Conway told reporters in the hall outside the Board of Aldermen chamber. “Denise Watson-Wesley Coleman.” Coleman is the first African American ever to hold the important…

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There is a bit of Constitutional confusion in Jefferson City today. As readers of PubDef had expected for weeks (and readers of the Post just found out today), Governor Matt Blunt withdrew the names of…

St. Louis Public Schools Superintendent Diana Bourisaw has fired back at the State Board of Education that earlier this year voted to strip the district of accreditation on June 15. In a 22-page document entitled…

Minority Floor Leader Maida Coleman (D-St. Louis) denied rumors that she is planning to make an early departure from the State Senate. Talk has spread around the Capitol that Coleman, who because of term limits…

The vote today on the perfection of the Barnes-Forest Park Lease deal was 22-2. President Shrewsbury and 22nd Ward Alderman Jeffrey Boyd were the only votes against. We haven’t gotten the official vote yet, but…

Press Release from Gov. Matt Blunt’s office… Gov. Matt Blunt today appointed Jackson County Drug Court Commissioner Brian Curtis Wimes to Circuit Judge of the 16th Circuit - Division 18 to replace Judge Jon Gray,…

The following letter comes from the President of the St. Louis Chapter of Society of Professional Journalists: Dear fellow journalists, The Saint Louis University board of trustees will vote Saturday morning on whether to eliminate…

The group representing African-Americans in the St. Louis Fire Department today called on Mayor Francis Slay to address the issues of their members — which account for 44% of the department — and no longer…