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Filed March 18, 2008 by Danielle Belton · 3 archived comments
City of St. Louis Revenue Collector Gregg Daly likes a conservative look that pops. A little tasteful hankie in a pocket here and a “splash” with the tie there, but he’s mostly old school. Cuff…
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Filed April 17, 2008 by Antonio French · 4 archived comments
This is how Jet Magazine reported on March 22, 1993: Freeman Bosley Jr., is poised to become St. Louis’ first Black mayor after winning 44 percent of the vote in a four-man Democratic primary. Bosley,…
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Filed January 22, 2008 by Antonio French
On the day before the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday, Senator Barack Obama addressed the congregation of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia. Keep up with St. Louis politics at www.pubdef.net Related StoriesMichael Eric…
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Filed January 12, 2008 by Antonio French
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.…
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Filed November 7, 2008 by Antonio French
So now they’re telling us Sarah Palin didn’t know the countries that make up North America or that Africa isn’t a country? WTF?! These people should be charged with treason for endangering our country like…
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Filed October 3, 2008 by Antonio French
Actor and environmentalist Ed Begley, Jr., a strong advocate for green living who actually rode his bicycle to the 2006 Academy Awards, will be in St. Louis next week to lead a public forum and…
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Filed August 20, 2008 by Antonio French
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…
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Filed August 30, 2008 by Antonio French
Speaking on “Face the Nation” on August 10, Karl Rove made some insightful observations about a presidential candidate selecting a VP for political reasons. It just so happens that the criticisms he was launching at…
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Filed October 23, 2008 by Antonio French
A recent New York Times/CBS poll found that for the first time, white voters are evenly divided between John McCain and Barack Obama, and Obama is faring better than his party’s recent candidates among that…
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Filed April 2, 2008 by Danielle Belton
The American Civil Liberties Union is hosting discussion Wednesday on a Affirmative Action banning initiative that is being petitioned to get on Missouri’s November ballot. California businessman and anti-Affirmative Action Activist Ward Connerly is behind…
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