2008

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…

Sorry about the less-than-normal updating. I’m still in Buffalo, NY attending a fantastic conference.  More at that later…

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…

Steve Patterson Recovering from His Stroke from PubDef on Vimeo. Local blogger Steve Patterson, still recovering from a stroke on Feb. 1, will make a mini-comeback 7 p.m. tonight on the Collateral Damage show on…

Former Fire Chief Sherman George voting at Woodward Elementary. School board member Bill Purdy gathering signatures to recall Mayor Francis Slay at Hodgen Elementary.

State Rep. Connie Johnson is trying to tap down some scuttlebutt about why she’s running for State Senate, the same seat Rep. Rodney Hubbard and Robin Wright-Jones are running for. Mouths are flapping that Johnson…

Gov. Matt Blunt today appointed Theresa Counts Burke to the Office of Associate Circuit Judge of the Twenty-Second Judicial Circuit. “I appreciate Judge Burke’s willingness to serve the constituents of the twenty-second circuit and wish…

Last night, the members of the 6th Ward and 8th Ward Democratic organizations voted to endorse the opponents of members of their respective organizations. In the 6th, they voted to endorse Rodney Hubbard for state…

Yet another indicator of a recession, the government is reporting a dramatic increase in the number of food stamps used by poor families. The New York Times is reporting that due to layoffs, rising food…