Wrapping up our election night coverage with a few more winners:

• Voters in Kirkwood approved a municipal smoking ban that is stricter than the county version also approved tonight.
• County voters approved a tenth-of-a-cent sales tax to fund new emergency radio equipment.
• St.…

Read into this what you like: Absentee ballots in St. Louis County favor the smoking ban by a wide margin.

The first results posted of the day show 69 percent of voters who filled out their ballots early support the smoking…

KIRKWOOD — While voters considered a countywide smoking ban today, the ballot in Kirkwood featured a separate municipal proposal that can restrict smoking in the city, regardless of what happens to the county ban.

Post-Dispatch photojournalist…

Ed Martin

WASHINGTON — Predictions of a big anti-incumbent election in 2010 might or might not be valid given the many advantages sitting members of Congress hold at re-election time.

But the anti-government sentiments afoot in recent months are providing a bounty…

The Bonhomme Township Democratic Club on Thursday will present speakers to discuss three issues on the Nov. 3 ballot in Kirkwood. The program will start at 7 p.m. at the Highlands Brewing Company, 105 East Jefferson Avenue, Kirkwood.

The speakers…

KIRKWOOD – Choose Kirkwood, which is promoting an initiative that would be an alternative to a smoking ban initiative, wants its proposal and the smoking ban both before the city on Aug. 20, Steve Sheridan, one of the leaders of…

Choose Kirkwood, which opposes an initiative to ban smoking in indoor public places, has received the city’s permission to circulate petitions for an initiative on a competing proposal. The group plans to start seeking signatures this week.

The Choose Kirkwood initiative…

Arthur McDonnell

Kirkwood will hold its vote on a ban on smoking in indoor public places no matter what St. Louis County does on the issue, Mayor Arthur McDonnell said this morning.

County Councilwoman Barbara Fraser, D-University City, plans to introduce a bill…

KIRKWOOD – Healthy Air for Kirkwood, the sponsor of an initiative to ban smoking in indoor public places, has raised $830 and spent $33.56 thus far, a campaign finance report says. Voters will consider the proposal in November.

The report has…

Arthur McDonnell

Promoters of a ban on smoking in indoor public places in Kirkwood have enough signatures on petitions to start the initiative process that could lead to a vote on the proposal.

The St. Louis County Election Board announced this morning…