2007

Just a couple of days after opening a campaign office here, Senator Barack Obama will be in St. Louis today at a rally at Union Station. Organizers say they are undertered by the sprinkles of…

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.…

150 years after the Dred Scott decision, the House Committee on Slavery Impact will discuss an apology for slavery in the same building where Scott made his case. At 2:00 PM tomorrow in the Old…

“The Board has hired a new attorney,” Alderman Steve Conway told reporters in the hall outside the Board of Aldermen chamber. “Denise Watson-Wesley Coleman.” Coleman is the first African American ever to hold the important…

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…

In a crowded union hall Wednesday, Teamsters General President James P. Hoffa announced his group’s support of Attorney General Jay Nixon for governor. Nixon accepted the endorsement and gave a speech outlining his plan to…

The group representing African-Americans in the St. Louis Fire Department today called on Mayor Francis Slay to address the issues of their members — which account for 44% of the department — and no longer…

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…