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They’re China bound! Gov. Matt Blunt, along with U.S. Senators Kit Bond and Claire McCaskill, are going on a bipartisan trade mission to China this week. The politicians will work on “creating new economic development…
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License Collector for the City of St. Louis Mike McMillan admits that he’s “very pleased with how things have gone so far” in the 14 months he’s spent in the office. It’s a place where…
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Maybe the Rev. Jeremiah Wright controversy didn’t hurt Barack Obama at all. While Critical Conversations will host a discussion on a recent Obama speech at the Missouri History Museum later today, it seems his most…
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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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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…
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St. Louis Public Schools Superintendent Diana Bourisaw will hold a news conference today at 1 p.m. to address the district’s new superintendent search. A few moments ago, she released this statement: Good morning, By now…
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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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Washington University Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton will be honored as “Citizen of the Year” Tuesday. The event, sponsored and administered by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, honors people who have contributed greatly to the St. Louis…
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If anyone in St. Louis should know anything about how to throw a proper protest it would be Percy Green. A veteran of civil rights fights in St. Louis since the 1960s, Green has been…
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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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