Charlie Dooley

St. Louis County plans to retire $5,638,791 in bonds two years early. The move would save the county $400,000 in interest costs, but not give the county much room to propose a “no tax increase” bond issue.

“No tax increase”…

Charlie Dooley

St. Louis County Executive Charlie Dooley’s budget for next year calls for extending a pay freeze for a second year.

Dooley this morning submitted to the county council a total county budget of nearly $498.8 million for next year. The total…

Tom Curran started work Monday as St. Louis County’s director of intergovernmental affairs.

He returns to county government after a two-year absence in which he was a vice president of investment banking for Piper Jaffray & Co.

Curran succeeds Darin Cline who…

Bill Corrigan

Charlie Dooley

A Republican candidate for St. Louis County executive said today he would on “day one” of his administration impose an ethics code on top officials that would promote accountability and transparency.

Voters will elect a county executive in November…

Cline

As our St. Louis County beat reporter Paul Hampel and gossip columnist Deb Peterson report in today’s paper, there was intrigue out of Clayton last night, where an aide to County Executive Charlie A. Dooley abruptly resigned.

His departure has nothing to do…

Charlie Dooley

Bill Corrigan

UPDATE: A meeting that was rumored to happen last Saturday involving St. Louis County Executive Charlie Dooley on Monday drew criticism from Bill Corrigan, a Republican running for Dooley’s job.

Corrigan said in a statement that the session involved…

A judge has rejected St. Charles County and St. Louis County’s challenge of a $10 increase in the fee charged by sheriff’s deputies across Missouri for delivering civil subpoenas, writs, summonses and other areas.

Ehlmann

The money raised by the fee hike, enacted in…

St. Louis County Executive Charlie Dooley and Bill Corrigan, his likely Republican opponent in the November, 2010 election for the office, are raising money at a fast pace, campaign finance reports said.

Dooley, a Democrat, reported raising $320,764.69 between April 1 and…

St. Louis County voters are likely to see a half-cent sales tax to help subsidize Metro’s MetroLink and buses on the ballot next April.

The transit system’s supporters agreed about a month ago to bring back the tax that lost…

Clark

St. Louis County Executive Charlie Dooley has appointed a developer working on a project near Lambert Field as a county representative of the St. Louis Airport Commission, the airport’s governing body.

In a letter the county council made public today, Dooley said…