2008

From a friend: Psssst…pass it on! [The] Alaska Women Reject Palin rally was to be held outside on the lawn in front of the Loussac Library in midtown Anchorage. Home made signs were encouraged, and…

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…

ENGLAND AIR BASE, LOUISIANA — Hurricane Gustav has left many people and businesses without electricity, even days after its Category 5 winds blew through Louisiana. Several gas stations are either without gasoline or without the…

Developer Paul McKee, a man known to many for his secret Blairmont development plan for Old North St. Louis, is heading to China soon to lobby for Lambert Airport and his own 550 acres surrounding…

The recent scandals in the St. Louis police department have fueled efforts to bring control of the department back to the people who pay the bills: the taxpayers of St. Louis City. From: The Coalition…

UPDATE 1 P.M. WILL YOU BE MY LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR? The race for Lt. Governor is as crowded as Hwy 70 at 6 p.m., who didn’t scratch their name on the list as closing bell yesterday?…

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…

John Edwards is out. Keep up with St. Louis politics at www.pubdef.net

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers backed down from conducting their man-made flooding, the “spring rise” of the Missouri River, for now. Missourinet is reporting that both the governor and Attorney Jay Nixon’s calls for…