2008

With 20% of precincts reporting, PubDef.net is projecting that Barack Obama (D) and John McCain (R) have won the City of St. Louis. Now we’re heading to the Obama Watch Party at The Moolah… Keep…

Congressman William Lacy Clay (D-Mo.) is calling for a backup plan for the Census Bureau if they can’t fix problems with their new handheld electronic devices meant to assist in data collection Clay, who chairs…

At the St. Louis Post-Dispatch’s Political Fix Blog we learn that it’s not just the Ron Paul-ites getting particular over cherry picking delegates to send to the convention. The Clintonistas are giving their rolls a…

I know it was inevitable, but it’s still sad.  To placate the right wing of the Republican Party, John McCain has proposed a new corporate tax cut as a means of promoting growth.  After years…

Based on exit polls, CNN is projecting that Barack Obama will win his home state of Illinois. No surprise there. The real question will be by how much. Will he be able to rack up…

According to Post-Dispatch columnist Deb Petterson: St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay and his wife, Kim, have their house on Oleatha Avenue near Ivanhoe Avenue in the Lindenwood Heights subdivision listed for sale at $419,900. The…

BREAKING EVEN: State Rep. Jamilah Nasheed raised almost $13,000 last quarter. But she also had almost $13,000 in expenditures (mostly returning over-limit contributions). Before the quarter, she had $16,569.58 in the bank. At the end…

A fourth of St. Louis Public School students missed the first day of school (7,000 out of a projected enrollment of 28,000). Governor Matt Blunt and the man he put he put in charge of…