2007

Here’s a link to video of an interview from Milatino.com with State Rep. Jeanette Mott Oxford on legislation in Missouri dealing with immigration. Keep up with St. Louis politics at www.pubdef.net

Four races.$11.5 million in the bank.And it’s only October. Click here to see a larger webpage version. Keep up with St. Louis politics at www.pubdef.net

BREAKING NEWS A source tells PubDef that Gov. Matt Blunt is going to veto HB 327, the contoversial bill containing a $100 million land assemblage tax credit, within the hour. UPDATE: It’s done. Here’s the…

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…

This video from Current TV shows how Detroit continues to face many of the problems of drastic population loss that we in St. Louis have hopefully turned the corner on. Keep up with St. Louis…

The full body of the 28th Ward Democrats voted tonight to endorse Lewis Reed for President of the Board of Aldermen. The vote was 36 for Reed, 26 for incumbent Jim Shrewsbury, and 1 abstention.…

It what the Mayor’s office fairly describes as something of an annual ritual now, the City of St. Louis challenged the US Census Bureau’s estimate of its residential population. For the fourth year in a…

PUB DEF EXCLUSIVE In the matter of whether the name of a candidate for alderman should be removed from the ballot less than two weeks before the election, the Election Board today opted to leave…

Two events will seek to educate the public today on the recently-signed legislation creating the $95 million Distress Areas Land Assemblage Tax Credit. The first, hosted by Old North St. Louis Restoration Group, is a…

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…