For anyone who works or lives downtown, it’s hard to miss the enormous investment Pinnacle Entertainment is making on its new Lumière Place casino on the riverfront.

And, if somehow you have, just wait for the sun to go down,…

Thursday at City Hall, veteran carpenters’ union official JoAnn Williams vented her frustrations at the Public Employees Committee for a bill that provides only an incremental raise for workers she represents.

At today’s full-board meeting, Williams employed a different negotiating tactic –…

State Sen. Jeff Smith, D-St. Louis, has more than casinos on his mind.

Thursday night, he announced his preference for president.

And it’s U.S. Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill.

Here’s the early-morning e-mail from a group who hosted an Obama fundraiser…

State Rep. Margaret Donnelly, D-Richmond Heights and a candidate for attorney general, was in Jefferson City today to file the Missouri Children’s Product Safety Act.

According to Donnelly, “the bill would enact safeguards to protect children from the growing number…

David Axelrod, who’s been getting plenty of air time recently as Barack Obama’s chief strategist, should be familiar to veterans of the St. Louis political scene.

The Chicago-based Democratic operative was hired in 1988 by the bow-tied one, U.S. Sen. Paul…

While answering questions from reporters last week, Mayor Francis Slay elaborated on his earlier suggestion that he might be searching for a new address.

Slay - whose two children have graduated high school - confirmed that he and spouse Kim have been testing…

Rudy Giuliani’s visit this week to Missouri  reflects a larger, and perhaps unusual,  approach to the primary calendar.

Typically, candidates go for the gold right away, hoping the gain will provide an unsurmountable push that underscores their “electibility” nationwide.

Yet Giuliani is…

It’s getting easier to follow the money in Missouri politics. So says a new national study on campaign finance.

Missouri’s disclosure system, overseen by the state Ethics Commission, scored a grade of B- this year, up from a C+ last year.…

St. Louis County Executive Charlie Dooley raised almost $95,000 between July 1 and Sept. 30 while other county elected officials did little or no fund raising, quarterly campaign finance reports filed Monday show.

Dooley’s report with the state Ethics Commission said…

Top campaign aides to U.S. Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill. — campaign manager David Plouffe and deputy Steve Hildebrand — announced in a telephone conference call this morning that they are finally putting staff on the ground in Missouri.

Mike Dorsey,…