2007

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…

Michael Moore’s latest documentary, Sicko, comes out today. A critical look at America’s failure to provide for the health and welfare of its people, the film has received praise from both sides of the political…

St. Louis Congressman Lacy Clay has joined with Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) in filing articles of impeachment against Vice President Dick Cheney. On April 17, Kucinich wrote a letter to his Democratic colleagues espressing his…

Singer Mya at the “Get Your Money Right” Hip-Hop Summit on Financial Empowerment in Washington, D.C. From left to right: Martin Luther King III, Dr. Ben Chavis, Mya, Cong. Barbara Lee, Cong. G.K. Butterfield, Valeisha…

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…

Just a couple of days after opening a campaign office here, Senator Barack Obama will be in St. Louis today at a rally at Union Station. Organizers say they are undertered by the sprinkles of…

After quickly spreading like wildfire, first on independent blogs, then newspaper blogs, then to TV, all that remains for the rumor of Republican State Senator Chris Koster’s crossover to the Democratic Party to become fact…

Alderman Kacie Starr Triplett is heading east. Far East. Starr has been invited to represent the United States on an international exchange program to Vietnam. The American Council of Young Political Leaders selected Triplett after…

PubDef.TV has been updated with several videos from Tuesday’s School Board meeting, including video of: Superintendent Diana Bourisaw’s subtle response to numerous attacks from Board President Veronica O’Brien during the three-hour long meeting Board member…