2007

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…

From Jason Rosenbaum at the Columbia Tribune: Ed Martin, who served as Gov. Matt Blunt’s chief of staff, has resigned. The governor announced this afternoon that Martin, a St. Louis resident, had stepped down from…

About 30 demonstrators, ranging from children to senior citizens, held signs outside of Senator Kit Bond’s office in Clayton yesterday afternoon calling for reauthorization of the State Children’s Health Insurance Plan (SCHIP). The group hoped…

Local supporters of Presidential candidate John Edwards will be preparing meals for needy St. Louisans tomorrow (Sunday) at 10:00 a.m. at Reinert Hall, 303 S. Grand, on the campus of St. Louis University. For more…

State Senator Jeff Smith was charged today with a misdemeanor offense of using a false identification during a July 31 visit to the Isle of Capri Casino in Booneville. State Rep. Joe Aull (D-Marshall) and…

Click To Play The head of the Democratic Party, former Vermont governor and Presidential candidate, Howard Dean, stopped by to say a few words at the annual Missouri Walk of Fame reception hosted by Congressmen…

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It what the Mayor’s office fairly describes as something of an annual ritual now, the City of St. Louis challenged the US Census Bureau’s estimate of its residential population. For the fourth year in a…

Correction: Okay, not really. Despite Governor Blunt’s assertions in his statement, the Supreme Court’s ruling did not extend to teachers the right to strike, but rather just the right to collectively bargain. FROM THE RULING:…