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…

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…

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…

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…

Reed

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…