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2007
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BREAKING NEWS Sources tell PubDef that State Rep. Joe Aull (D-Marshall) will be charged tomorrow in conjunction with providing State Senator Jeff Smith (D-St. Louis City) a false identification during a July 31 visit to…
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Crime may have shot up 20% last year, at least $40,000 in cash may have disappeared from the police vault, the number of rapes may have been systematically underreported, the Police Officers Association may be…
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“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…
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Washington University in St. Louis is planning to host a day-long public forum on Medicaid, called “Medicaid Financing: Challenges for Missouri and the Nation,” on June 8th, 2007. Planned topics of discussion include healthcare accessability,…
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The following letter comes from the President of the St. Louis Chapter of Society of Professional Journalists: Dear fellow journalists, The Saint Louis University board of trustees will vote Saturday morning on whether to eliminate…
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Friday’s unseasonal upper-80-degree temperatures weren’t the only reason things were hot in the Board of Aldermen meeting yesterday. Racial tensions are high in the City of St. Louis following Mayor Francis Slay’s removal of the…
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Yesterday, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg visited City Hall and St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay on his way to speak at the National Urban League Conference. (Photo by Gentry Trotter) Is it just us, or…
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The Missouri House and Senate both came back into session today to revisit the economic development package (HB 327) previously vetoed by Governor Matt Blunt. Of course, included in that package is the controversial Land…
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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…
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State Representative and likely State Senate candidate Tom Villa raised just $500 last quarter, well below the amount expected to be shown by his chief rival, State Rep. Rodney Hubbard*. According to campaign finance reports…
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