2008

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…

The Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, just issued its decision in the case of Robin Wright-Jones v. Connie L. Johnson, an appeal from the city of St. Louis involving a challenge to the validity…

Kansas City’s The Pitch is reporting that Democrat Attorney General candidate Molly Korth Williams may be a plant. In an article by David Martin, The Pitch insinuates that A.G. candidate State Senator Chris Koster has…

At yesterday’s town hall meeting on the latest proposal to close more schools in St. Louis City, Deanna Anderson, St. Louis Public Schools’ Director of Operations, began the meeting by assuring everyone that no final…

Robin Carnahan is out. Keep up with St. Louis politics at www.pubdef.net

Missouri may have lost its reputation for accuracy in choosing the president (McCain is leading by less than 7,000 votes with thousands of provisional ballots still to be counted), but it definitely retained its status…

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http://mccaskill.senate.gov/multimedia/042208mccaskill.flv On Tuesday, which was Equal Pay Day, U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill joined several of her female colleagues in speaking on the Senate floor in favor of legislation that clarifies laws related to pay discrimination.…

Our thoughts and prayers are with our friend and fellow blogger Steve Patterson today. The proud St. Louis urbanist and UrbanReviewSTL.com webmaster suffered a stroke over the weekend and remains in the hospital. He is…