Corcoran

While the rest of us were preparing for the holiday weekend, State Rep. Michael Corcoran quietly pleaded guilty last week to driving while intoxicated.

Initially, Corcoran’s attorney said he would fight the charges, stemming from a February traffic stop in which…

Fraser

St. Louis County Council member Barbara Fraser is getting an early start on 2010, kicking off a bid for State Senate with her first fundraiser next week.

Fraser supporters will gather June 18 with a party at the new Moonrise Hotel on…

Page

Former Missouri State Rep. Sam Page, who lost a bid last year for lieutenant governor, will seek a return to Jefferson City next year as a State Senator.

The Creve Coeur Democrat, an anesthesiologist by training, confirmed he will run for…

Local opponents of a California proposition to ban gay marriage will hold a rally tomorrow at noon in front of the Old Courthouse.

According to organizers, speakers will include State. Sen. Joan Bray and St. Louis Board of Aldermen President Lewis Reed.

The demonstration…

DENVER –As my story recounted this morning, Missouri’s Democratic delegation (and its accompanying entourage of family and activists) is closely divided between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama because of his narrow victory in the Feb. 5 primary.

Although the relationship between the two…

A senate panel gave the OK this morning to a bill that would give investor-owned utility Aquila to keep its Cass County peaking plant that the company built after a judge told them not to.

They did so only after inserting a…

 State Senate Minority Leader Maida Coleman, D-St. Louis, issued a statement this afternoon that expresses “alarm that the Special Administrative Board (SAB) of the St. Louis Public Schools today fired Superintendent Diana Bourisaw.”

Bourisaw was appointed superintendent by the elected Board of…