McMillan

ST. LOUIS — Earlier this year, the city’s treasurer and parking czar announced he was slashing jobs to cope with the economic downturn.

Now, another citywide elected official, License Collector Mike McMillan, is also taking out the budget ax.

McMillan announced on…

Claire McCaskill

Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., held a townhall meeting this morning in the St. Charles Community College gymnasium. On stage, she pulled questions written by the audience from a giant fishbowl, addressing criminal justice reform, gun rights, economic deregulation, illegal immigration…

Williams

ST. LOUIS — The office of city Treasurer Larry Williams is expected to comment soon on word of layoffs in the department.

Both the Arch City Chronicle and St. Louis Beacon have reported on a “tweet” by Board of Aldermen President Lewis Reed…

A tome for our time? 1,500 pages of stimulus

Want some great bedtime reading? Try more than 1,500 pages of Congressional-ese.  That is, try the final text of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

On Friday, the House and Senate passed…

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…

Nixon at a press conference Monday introducing his jobs plan

Though Gov. elect-Jay Nixon was tackling a dour topic at his press conference Monday– job loss and the struggling economy — he seemed at ease with himself.

Perhaps buoyed by the bi-partisan support…

Mayor Francis Slay is pointing to today’s massive job cuts at Anheuser-Busch InBev — 1,400 company wide, about three-fourths of which are in St. Louis — to call on president-elect Barack Obama to jump start the economy soon.

“This is a very painful day…

Grijalva

As president-elect Barack Obama begins to fill out the lower-profile seats in his cabinet, one choice could draw particularly high interest in St. Louis.

Obama has yet to chose his Interior Secretary, whose purview spans the country’s national parks and memorials…

The economy’s disastrous fall in October lead to the defeat Nov. 4 in St. Louis County of Proposition M, a half-cent sales tax increase for Metro, the manager of the campaign for the proposal said Thursday.

The month saw a sharp…

Blunt

As reported by Kim Bell on the home page, Gov. Matt Blunt is beginning to line-up his life after office.

Copart, a California-based auto salvage company, has announced that Blunt will join the company’s board effective Jan. 13.

The company, with 145…