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06.23.2009 11:07 am

Salute to summer classic: City Hall gets an All-Star Arch

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
All-Star Arch outside City Hall

All-Star Arch outside City Hall

Replicas of the Gateway Arch painted to recognize the Major League All-Star Game have been appearing all over St. Louis. This one is in front of City Hall. There’s another at Forest Park, and several in…

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03.02.2009 1:29 pm

Poll: Your predictions for Tuesday’s city primary

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The city's Democratic Primary for mayor is Tuesday

ST. LOUIS — Tomorrow, city voters will head to the polls to weigh-in on candidates for mayor and aldermen.

Mayor Francis Slay faces two other Democrats in his bid for a third term. In…

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02.23.2009 8:57 am

City Hall gets into swing of Mardi Gras at mayor’s ball

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

ST. LOUIS — Francis Slay hosted the annual mayor’s Mardi Gras ball on Friday night, replete with a trapeze dancer, live music and a soild ice bar courtesy of the folks at InBev.

The economy may have…

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02.06.2009 3:55 pm

City Hall lobbyist’s car — and sirens — get taken for a ride

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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Hamilton

Post-Dispatch gossip guru Deb Peterson has the scoop about a St. Louis lobbyist whose car was stolen from outside his home near Forest Park — then used to pull over other drivers down the road.

Lou Hamilton, a well-known City Hall insider who’s represented…

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01.28.2009 1:51 pm

Reed wants advanced warning on red-light traffic cameras

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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Earlier we told you that new State Sen. Jim Lembke is taking aim at red-light cameras. Now, St. Louis Board of Aldermen President Lewis Reed has a bill that would tighten regulations on camera enforcement.

Reed’s proposal would require that St. Louis intersections…

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01.22.2009 4:57 pm

Wanted: Obama banner returned — no questions asked

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
The pilfered painting is in the bottom row, second from the left

The pilfered painting is on the bottom row, second from the left

The St. Louis Young Democrats are hoping the first week of the new administration finds a Barack Obama banner returned to its owner.

The Young Dems co-hosted a black tie…

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01.15.2009 11:33 am

Two former Board of Aldermen presidents back Slay

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Shrewsbury, left, and Villa

Shrewsbury, left, and Villa

Mayor Francis Slay has added to his list of re-election endorsements two savvy political veterans who both took turns running the city’s Board of Aldermen.

Today, the mayor announced the support of former State Rep. Tom Villa, who led…

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01.13.2009 2:27 pm

Irene Smith wants Nixon to remove Police Board members

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Smith

Mayoral candidate Irene J. Smith has been quiet as the Tale of Two Colemans drama has swirled around the race.

But today, Smith issued a release congratulating Gov. Jay Nixon on his inauguration yesterday — and asking, for one of his first official…

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01.06.2009 11:37 am

Nixon taps St. Louis lawyer to lead economic development

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Jay Nixon, left, introduces lawyer Linda Martinez as his new economic development director

Jay Nixon, left, introduces lawyer Linda Martinez as his new economic development director

Gov.-elect Jay Nixon has tapped a St. Louis lawyer with a long record of working alongside business to lead the state’s Department of Economic Development.

Linda Martinez, will be charged…

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01.05.2009 11:06 am

Coleman confusion takes center stage at City Hall

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Maida Coleman, left, and Denise Watson-Wesley Coleman

Maida Coleman, left, and Denise Watson-Wesley Coleman

Not since a deranged tarp ate up a Cardinal outfielder in the 1985 National League Championship Series has a Coleman caused so much consternation in St. Louis.

On Friday afternoon, a double-shot of Colemans seeking to become…

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