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04.09.2009 2:52 pm

City parking meter staff told jobs will be outsourced

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Parking division trucks at today's meeting

Parking division trucks at today's meeting

ST. LOUIS — City parking trucks today were lined up outside the Gateway Classic building, where inside employees of the treasurer’s office learned their duties had been transferred to a private company.

Treasurer Larry Williams — the…

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04.03.2009 3:38 pm

St. Louis city treasurer confirms 73 layoffs

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
The treasurer's parking staff will be trimmed by 73

The treasurer's parking staff will be cut

ST. LOUIS — Turns out that not even parking meters are recession proof.

The city’s parking czar, Treasurer Larry Williams, confirmed today his office is laying off 73 employees, most of whom are responsible for installing…

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04.02.2009 12:48 pm

City treasurer mum on possible layoffs

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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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…

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12.17.2008 9:30 am

Green — with reason to celebrate — hosts holiday party tonight

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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St. Louis Comptroller Darlene Green, cruising to the spring primary, will host a holiday party tonight at the Carpenter’s Hall on Hampton.

Special guests include U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill and city Treasurer Larry Williams, who was re-elected in November.

Green has as much…

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11.25.2008 1:05 pm

Slay continues to soak up the endorsements

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

If State Sen. Maida Coleman does indeed jump into the mayor’s race, she may have hardly anyone left to

Slay

Slay

endorse her.

The day after officially launching his bid for a third term, Mayor Francis Slay announced a fresh round of endorsements:

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06.05.2008 10:36 am

Florissant mayor backing Harris for AG

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

State Rep. Jeff Harris, seeking the Democratic nomination for attorney general, has added another name to his roster of St. Louis-area supporters: Florissant Mayor Bob Lowery.

“We can count on Jeff Harris to work with law enforcement to make sure they…

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05.21.2008 3:45 pm

Krewson, Williams launch anti-panhandler effort

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St. Louis Alderwoman Lyda Krewson, D-28th Ward ward, will join city Treasurer Larry Williams and Tricia Roland-Hamilton, president of the Central West End Association, at an event Friday that will launch their “Real Change” campaign to discourage panhandling for money.

The…

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05.08.2008 6:19 am

Bright idea: City garages to go green

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

St. Louis Treasurer Larry Williams is the latest city official to go green.

Williams, the city’s ex officio parking czar, announced plans Wednesday to replace 1,134 light fixtures at four city garages with “high-efficiency fluorescent” bulbs.

Not only will the new lights save money, Williams…

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04.01.2008 6:33 am

Reform vet seeks office he once sought to eliminate

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

As a leader of the Advance St. Louis reform movement, Daniel Schesch pushed a set of charter amendments four years ago that would have eliminated many of the city’s elected positions.

But the measures fared poorly at the polls, and now Schesch is…

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02.25.2008 10:59 pm

Filing day in St. Louis: Toeing the Line

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The city of St. Louis has held on to many traditions. Among them is the practice of hiring stand-ins to hold a candidate’s place in the filing line — sometimes weeks, or even months — before filing actually opens.

The state…

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