2008

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…

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…

Congressman Lacy Clay welcomed the Missouri delegation to the Democratic National Convention this morning. Related Stories

[The BBC has disabled embedding on their video, so here's some video from MSNBC...]   Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton

Senate Bill 830 & Senate Bill 1036 Senator Maida Coleman thinks the best way to say “thank you to the brave men and women from Missouri who have answered this nation’s call to duty” is…

It’s Feb. 17, 2009. You’re sitting in your chair, Big Gulp in one hand, the remote in the other ready to relax by watching nobodies warble their way on the American Idol, but when you…

As many of you have heard, Steve Patterson, our friend and fellow blogger, experienced a stroke on February 1. Well, here is good news: Steve is making good progress in his recovery. Click here to…

It is true that membership has its privileges. Elected officials scored big Thursday night in the selection of Democratic delegates in Congressional district caucuses held in St. Louis. In the First Congressional district caucus, four…

St. Louis County state rep. John Bowman, the former chairman of the Legislative Black Caucus, has pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of paying a Bank of America vice president $1,000 to influence the approval…