2008

One day before Election Day, Senator Hillary Clinton will campaign for Barack Obama at a rally in St. Charles. Her Missouri visit is at least the eighth in the last two weeks by Obama or…

Barack Obama will very likely win Lacy Clay’s 1st Congressional District, but a good predictor of how well Obama will do in the all-important delegate count in Missouri will be how well he does in…

Lines wrapped around three sides of the Edward Jones Dome before the doors opened and crowds of supporters poured onto the stadium floor. “I haven’t seen so many people in this dome since the Rams…

It’s through the first round, State Senator Jeff Smith’s (D-St. Louis) measure that would increase access to early childhood programs at licensed child care facilities. Smith’s legislation creating the Missouri Preschool Plus Grant Program, a…

ST. FRANCISVILLE, LA — The line at one of the few working gas stations in St. Francisville, Louisiana is a half mile long. “Cash Only. $50 Limit,” reads the orange letters spray-painted in a piece…

Another night, another senseless shooting in St. Louis. So far this year, more that 140 people have been killed — and hundreds more have been wounded. Few of these acts of violence are ever solved.…

State Treasure candidate Andria Simckes (D) is raising some eyebrows in Springfield. According to KY3 Political notebook, at a small gathering of with lawyers Simckes said she’d “received the unofficial tap from Sen. Claire McCaskill,…

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Friday community leaders will come together to christen a garden in a city park. St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay along with Alderman Jeffery Boyd, State Rep. Talib El Amin and St. Louis Rams Linebacker Will…

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…