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Filed January 31, 2007 by Antonio French
Former U.S. Senator Jim Talent has sent an email to supporters reflecting on his loss and requesting financial aid in erasing his $85,000 of campaign debt. “I’ve replayed the campaign more than a couple of…
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Filed January 30, 2007 by Antonio French
The Post-Dispatch put a picture of the wrong John Bowman on the front page of today's paper.In their story on the state representative's indictment yesterday, the Post mistakenly published a photo of Bowman's son, John…
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Filed January 10, 2007 by Antonio French
SECOND ONLY TO DETROIT — According to the latest government statistics, the St. Louis metropolitan area lost 3,300 jobs over a recent yearlong period — the worst in the nation, save Detroit. (What is it…
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Filed August 19, 2007 by Antonio French
When it comes to the proposed Land Assemblage Tax Credit, the devil is in the details. A story in today’s Post-Dispatch says leaders in the Republican-controlled legislature are confident that a scaled-back version of Governor…
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Filed July 27, 2007 by Antonio French
PubDef.net caught up with State Senator Rita Days (D-St. Louis County) as she was leaving the Ferrara Theatre in America’s Center, where Democratic Presidential candidates Dennis Kucinich, John Edwards, Hillary Clinton, and Barack Obama addressed…
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Filed May 6, 2007 by Antonio French
The St. Louis University Board of Trustees voted last night to grant school administrators the go-ahead to replace the existing University News charter. This vote comes as a defeat for newspaper staff and editors who…
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Filed October 22, 2007 by Antonio French
Click To Play Reverend James Morris told the crowd of hundreds gathered in front of City Hall yesterday that he could no longer sit by in good conscience and allow this city to be divided…
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Filed December 5, 2007 by Antonio French
From a report Tuesday by Fox 2 reporter Paul Schankman: From 2001 to 2006, the average number of households on food stamps in the city of St. Louis went up 35%. In St. Louis County,…
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Filed October 16, 2007 by Antonio French
The I-70 Northwest Development Corporation of St. Louis will receive $95,000 in Neighborhood Assistance Program (NAP) tax credits to build a senior care center. The center will take up just over half of a 4,308-square…
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Filed January 14, 2007 by Antonio French
The Missouri History Museum has purchased former Mayor Freeman Bosley, Jr.’s Big Jake’s BBQ on Delmar and, according to The Pacer neighborhood newsletter, plans to raze the building and put in a new “multi-modal” building.…
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