2007

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi swears in Congressman Wm. Lacy Clay for another term in the U.S. House. Joining the Congressman for this occasion in the U.S. Capitol were his father, former Congressman Bill…

According to campaign finance reports just made available on the State’s website, Aldermanic President Jim Shrewsbury collected $20,900 in two days last week, adding to his much-depleted coffers just hours before the polls open. The…

BREAKING NEWS — READ IT HERE FIRST The Missouri Supreme Court has reversed a lower court’s decision that would have allowed the City of Clayton to use eminent domain to aid the $200 million downtown…

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…

Hip-Hop Summit Action Network (HSAN) Managing Director Valeisha Butterfield, daughter of Congressman G.K. Butterfield (D-N.C.). Keep up with St. Louis politics at www.pubdef.net

The Race for Governor Add another $1.6 million to Matt Blunt’s total cash raised. After spending almost $400,000 in the last three months, the governor had about $5.8 million in the bank as of June…

BREAKING NEWS — READ IT HERE FIRST Caving to mounting public criticism and still-possible legal ramifications, Gov. Matt Blunt today directed his administration to create a permanent e-mail retention system. Blunt says by doing so…

The Service Employees International Union, Local 2000 will be endorsing Chris Koster’s campaign for Attorney General. Koster finally formally announced his bid for AG yesterday in Harrisonville, MO. He held another announcement today in Independence.…

From Michael Allen’s Ecology of Absence blog: With the McKee development, the aldermen are gatekeepers of redevelopment. They don’t need to see McKee’s plans to articulate a vision for their wards, and ask that the…

The Clinton campaign may have dodged an embarrassing protest by a group opposed to one her biggest local supporters, Mayor Francis Slay, but the New York senator’s support for the Iraq War is bringing out…