2008

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…

Call it the “Dewey Defeats Truman” headline of the 21st Century. The Associated Press called the state of Missouri for Hillary Clinton around 10:30 PM. NOT SO FAST! As more precincts came in it became…

The AP is reporting that Senator Claire McCaskill is going to endorse Barack Obama for President today. McCaskill has praised Obama often and was widely believed to favor the Illinois senator over Clinton. But the…

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First the New York Times, now the Associated Press via the Boston Herald. From yesterday’s Herald: Few brotherhoods are as strong as the one among firefighters, who depend on one another just to stay alive.…

Landmarks Association’s 2008 Eleven Most Endangered Places list is now online: http://www.landmarks-stl.org/enhanced_and_endangered/2008_most_endangered These are the sites held over from last year’s list: Andrew Einstmann House, 2347 Virginia Avenue Mullanphy Emigrant Home, 1609 N. 14th Street…

Aldermanic President Lewis Reed is calling on the mayor to immediately fire his head of the city’s IT Department. Reed’s demand follows a report aired last night on KSDK Channel 5 showing over the past three…

Father Michael Pfleger, a Roman Catholic priest and social activist in Chicago, was interviewed last month by Fox News. His honest commentary on the character assassination of Rev. Jeremiah Wright, the villainization of Minister Louis…

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