2007

A busy day in Missouri politics yesterday… Former state rep. Nathan Cooper was sentenced to 15 months in a federal prison. Secretary of State Robin Carnahan has approved for circulation a petition drive to get…

The people of St. Charles have spoken. Republican Tom Dempsey has defeated Democrat Ed Appelbaum tonight to become Missouri’s newest state senator. The final unofficial results are: Dempsey — 6,671 (56.2%)Appelbaum — 5,199 (43.8%) Here’s…

Governor Matt Blunt’s re-election campaign has taken issue with Attorney General Jay Nixon’s characterization of the Republican governor as being in support of President George W. Bush’s veto yesterday of the reauthorization of a program…

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…

The final touches are being put on a new documentary, co-produced by local filmmaker Larry Bastain (brother of State Rep. Talibdin El-Amin), which takes a closer look at the often violent lives of many of…

The webzine NewTeeVee.com has written about our spat with KSDK Channel 5, which has resulted in all 500 of our YouTube videos being taken off-line: French argued that the use of the clips — less…

Schmid - 376Gandolfi - 301Sent via BlackBerry from Cingular Wireless Keep up with St. Louis politics at www.pubdef.net Related StoriesReed in the Lead (1)Latest Numbers (4)Absentee Returns (3)Ozier Files in the 22nd (3)Obama Coming to…

“I’d like to thank all the little people…” The folks at St. Louis Magazine were nice enough to send two attractive women over today to present me with a plaque and a couple of early…

Missouri Attorney General Jay Nixon, the likely Democratic nominee for governor in 2008, today said that Governor Matt Blunt’s office appears to be breaking the law by destroying their email records. Click To Play Keep…