2007

As expected, State Rep. Fred Kratky has resigned. According to an email obtained by PubDef.net, written from St. Louis City Elections Director Scott Leiendecker to the Governor’s Office, Kratky resigned “on or about Friday, June…

By a vote of 46 to 53, the U.S. Senate today refused to close debate and advance President Bush’s controversial immigration legislation. Sixty votes were needed to end debate.   Both Missouri Senators, Kit Bond (R)…

“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…

UPDATE… Arguments are still being made by attorneys from both sides in Cole County Circuit Judge Richard G. Callahan’s courtroom as opponents of the state takeover of St. Louis Public Schools push for a temporary…

Everyone knows the way to an alderman’s heart is through their stomach. So when the city’s legislative body meets this morning, breakfast will be provided by none other than Attorney General candidate Jeff Harris. If…

Starting off the new year performing my civic duty. UPDATE: It was so fun sitting in that waiting room watching Gerald Ford’s funeral and bad soap operas that I think I’ll do it again tomorrow.…

From an article in the Kansas City Star on the KC mayoral race: Still, the Internet is a good way for candidates to communicate with their base and raise funds, said Antonio French, a St.…

PUB DEF EXCLUSIVE VIDEO The mayor’s education liaison’s PR event with a group of St. Louis Public Schools students Friday got a little too real when a parent asked why recently air conditioned schools were…