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St. Louis Public Schools’ “elected” Board of Education will meet noon, Saturday at the Gateway Classic Foundation, 2012 Martin Luther King Drive. The board is in the midst of putting the finishing touches on a…

Retired employees of St. Louis Public Schools have made a third request for the $20 million owed to their pension fund for 2008. In a letter dated August 6, Andrew Clark, executive director of the…

A tape was released today of Bill Clinton slamming the writer of a Vanity Fair article which claimed he is still cheating on his wife. Clinton also charged that the media has been biased against…

Attorney General candidate Chris Koster* landed another big union endorsement this week. The former Republican who is now seeking the Democratic nomination for A.G. has picked up the support of the 4,000-member Springfield Building and…

As most of my readers know, I was elected a couple of weeks ago as the new Democratic Committeeman of the 21st Ward. One of the issues I raised in the campaign was the state…

Count Congressman Lacy Clay among those that are having a tough time swallowing the idea of handing over $700,000,000,000 in taxpayer dollars to the already wealthiest people in America in the hopes of fixing a…

In today’s New York Times (hat tip to the Arch City Chronicle for first noting it), former Riverfront Times reporter Malcolm Gay pens an article on the City of St. Louis’ ongoing racial problems following…

Former chief-of-staff for Governor Matt Blunt and regular PubDef.net commentator Ed Martin has a new show on city cable. Related Stories