2008

We’re heading to the Mile High City next week for the Democratic National Convention. We’ll be following the Missouri delegation, as well as the action inside and outside of the Convention as the world prepares…

Andria Simckes, a Democratic candidate for Missouri Treasurer, wants the other Democratic Treasurer candidates to agree to support the winner of the Primary, “regardless of which one of us prevails.” From the press release: Simckes…

CNN’s exit polls show Barack Obama won among Missouri women (53%-46%) and narrowly among men (50-49). While Obama expectedly won the black vote (just 14% of those polled) by 91%, he lost Missouri’s white vote…

Landmarks Association’s 2008 Eleven Most Endangered Places list is now online: http://www.landmarks-stl.org/enhanced_and_endangered/2008_most_endangered These are the sites held over from last year’s list: Andrew Einstmann House, 2347 Virginia Avenue Mullanphy Emigrant Home, 1609 N. 14th Street…

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…

From the Missouri Democratic Party… The Missouri Democratic Party today preliminarily awarded 36 delegates each to Senator Barack Obama and Senator Hillary Clinton following their thrilling performances in Tuesday’s Missouri Presidential Primary. By virtue of…

The SLPS Administrative Facilities Committee has been discussing the possibility of school consolidations as a means of better utilization of school funds. Gundlach, Lyon, Mark Twain, Meramec, Mitchell, Shenandoah, Simmons, Blow and Wilkinson Early Childhood…

In this week before St. Louis Fashion Week blows the dust off the runways of our midwestern city, we at PubDef.net will be taking a look at the fashion sense of some of our favorite…