Slay

ST. LOUIS — Earlier this week, Mayor Francis Slay spoke to Robin Carnahan about her bid to become Missouri’s next U.S. senator.

Today, after Carnahan’s official announcement, Slay offered Carnahan strong public support — though did leave himself some wiggle room.

“Sen. Kit Bond will not…

Jill Biden

A St. Louis native has been named the top communications aide for the vice-president’s wife.

Courtney O’Donnell will serve as the communications director for Jill Biden, the president-elect’s transition office announced Monday.

Though only in her early 30s, O’Donnell is already a…

Butts

Three more aides to former St. Louis congressman Dick Gephardt have been gobbled up by President-elect Barack Obama for roles in the new administration.

The Obama transition team announced today that Cassandra Butts, a senior advisor to Gephardt who served as the policy…

Missouri Secretary of State Robin Carnahan says that the number of absentee ballots has nearly doubled in the city since last presidential election, and is up substantially around Missouri.

The city had 14,801 absentee ballot requests, up from a total of…

Haslett

While we wait to see what scheme new Rams coach Jim Haslett brings to the team’s feckless offense, we can already guess where he stands politically.

Haslett, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, gave $2,000 to the Republican National Committee in…

An Obama voter registration event in St. Louis

Barack Obama’s last-minute registration push in Missouri has caught the attention of the Los Angeles Times’ Top of the Ticket blog, which suggests that the effort might be more meaningful than anything said in…

Washington University has received more than 2,800 requests for media credentials to cover Thursday’s vice-presidential debate, according to the the school newspaper.

That’s twice as many as the school received in 2004, when it hosted the presidential debate.

Though not everyone who…

And now for something on the lighter side of debate politics — or, at least, the sweeter.

Campus eating spots at Washington University are selling confections to match the contestants in Thursday’s vice-presidential debate: Blue donkey cookies with a frosted “B”…

As St. Louis Public Schools introduces three superintendent finalists to the community, the man who was a phone call away from taking the helm of the troubled district four years ago might himself be looking for a new job.

It’s an…

Newsweek’s Sarah Kliff was among the traveling press corps that followed Democratic veep nominee Joe Biden to St. Louis yesterday, filing an interesting dispatch assessing Barack Obama’s chances of winning Missouri.

“Can the Democrats flip Missouri this year? The state has gone…