2007

READ IT HERE FIRSTState Representative John Bowman has been indicted, along with 16 others, on bank fraud and credit card fraud charges.U.S. Attorney Catherine Hanaway announced today that Bowman and former Bank of American Vice…

Tom Weber, of local NPR station KWMU, reports that Cape Girardeau-area Rep. JoAnn Emerson, a Republican, was especially supportive of Congressional Democrats’ so-called 100-hour agenda. Emerson voted for five of the six bills that passed…

Click here to view the agenda for Thursday’s meeting of the State Board of Education. Early on the very full agenda is a report on St. Louis Public Schools by DESE Commissioner Kent King. And…

READ IT HERE FIRST Cole County Circuit Judge Richard Callahan will see some familiar faces in court again tomorrow. The St. Louis Board of Education and the Special Administrative Board (SAB) of St. Louis Public…

Congressman Lacy Clay has issued the following statement in response to President George W. Bush’s State of the Union address delivered a short time ago: “Tonight, the President reviewed his long list of broken promises…

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…

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…

A large group of local grass-root supporters of U.S. Senator and Presidential candidate Barack Obama are scheduled to meet Wednesday night in St. Louis. Not another fundraiser, and not another meet-and-greet for local political big…

Terrence J., the co-host of BET’s 106 & Park. Terrence with Dr. Ben Chavis, co-founder of the Hip-Hop Summit and former head of the NAACP.