2007

A move by St. Louis University to exert a greater degree of control over its student-run newspaper has many current and past SLU journalists worried.University officials met with the student staff of the University News…

St. Louis’ Young Democrats are coming together tomorrow for their Fall Social. The event is Wednesday from 5:30—7:30 PM at the Laclede Street Bar & Grill, 3818 Laclede. All Democrats are welcome and admission is…

BREAKING NEWS — READ IT HERE FIRST Brandon Davis, former political director for Senator Claire McCaskill, has been hired to serve in the same position for the SEIU MO/KS State Council. Davis had for weeks…

Attorney General Jay Nixon gathered with a group of local Democratic elected officials today to call for the Republican-controlled state senate to act to regulate the state’s Pay Day Loan industry. Joining Nixon were State…

Gov. Matt Blunt today announced the appointment of Angeletta McCormick Franks to serve as director of the Office of Supplier and Workforce Diversity. Franks previously served as a commissioner on the St. Louis City Election…

You may have seen his “I Have a Dream” speech before, but watch it again now if only to marvel at how great of an orator Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was, and how large…

There is a bit of Constitutional confusion in Jefferson City today. As readers of PubDef had expected for weeks (and readers of the Post just found out today), Governor Matt Blunt withdrew the names of…

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…

"Fight, fight!," as we used to say on the school yard.The Political Eye column of the St. Louis American newspaper and MayorSlay.com, a creation of Public Eye, Inc., the PR firm of Richard Callow, have…