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Alderman Kacie Starr Triplett is heading east. Far East. Starr has been invited to represent the United States on an international exchange program to Vietnam. The American Council of Young Political Leaders selected Triplett after…
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State Treasurer Sarah Steelman announced today that the Carpenters’ District Council of Greater St. Louis had endorsed her re-election bid. “We don’t normally endorse candidates before the filing date closes, but we decided to make…
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PUB DEF SPECIAL REPORT Poisoning the well of good faith negotiations in trying to reach a compromise on the controversial Land Assemblage Tax Credit is the amount of anger and raw emotion people have towards…
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Old School Hip-Hop legend Big Daddy Kane with his son. Keep up with St. Louis politics at www.pubdef.net
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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…
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In this exclusive PubDef video from June 2006, Derio Gambaro and the other then-candidates for the State Senate discuss their views on St. Louis Public Schools. Gambaro: “I’ve always fought for St. Louis Public Schools.…
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Katherine Wessling and David Lee Jackson, Jr. easily won seats on the St. Louis Board of Education tonight with 37 and 30 percent of the vote respectively. Proposition P also passed easily with 70 percent…
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St. Louis Congressman Lacy Clay was all smiles Friday night as he and visiting House majority whip Congressman James E. Clyburn (D-SC) helped raised over $100,000 for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. The fundraiser was…
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Not long after the news of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales’ resignation broke, Senator Claire McCaskill released a statement praising Gonzales’ decision to leave. “It was clear to me from the start that Attorney General Gonzales…
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Minority Floor Leader Maida Coleman (D-St. Louis) denied rumors that she is planning to make an early departure from the State Senate. Talk has spread around the Capitol that Coleman, who because of term limits…
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