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05.13.2009 11:19 am

Red light camera regulation revived

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Cameras have been installed at intersections around the region

Cameras have been installed at intersections around the region

JEFFERSON CITY — The House of Representatives added a section regulating the use of red light cameras to an omnibus local government bill last night.

Rep. Brian Yates, R-Lee’s Summit, sponsored the amendment,…

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04.22.2009 5:20 pm

Convicted ex-St. Peters Mayor Shawn Brown says he’ll run again

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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This from a post this afternoon by Post-Dispatch reporter Tim Bryant:

Former St. Peters Mayor Shawn Brown says he wants his old job back.

No, he isn’t talking about the chores he did while an inmate at the federal prison camp in Duluth, Minn.

Brown said…

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02.25.2009 9:28 am

Who’s paying for new red-light camera advocacy group?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

HAZELWOOD — On Tuesday, Hazelwood Police Carl Wolf stood with other members of law enforcement to announce a new group advocating the use of red-light cameras.

Their push comes amid efforts in Jefferson City and elsewhere to regulate…

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01.28.2009 1:51 pm

Reed wants advanced warning on red-light traffic cameras

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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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…

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01.27.2009 4:25 pm

Lembke takes on red-light cameras, also continues battle against lawyers

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New state Sen. Jim Lembke, R-Mehlville, has added a new target to his cadre of got-to-get-rid-ofs: ‘Red light’ cameras.

As the Arch City Chronicle first pointed out today, Lembke is on the same page as some St. Louis aldermen, who want…

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12.02.2008 2:18 pm

Aldermen aren’t sold on plan to divy-up cash from traffic cameras

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Aldermen Charles Quincy Troupe and Freeman Bosley Sr. both have separate plans to parse out revenue from red-light traffic cameras — and both of their ideas seem stuck on yellow.

Bosley wants 20 percent of the city’s take on the tickets– which, once…

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10.21.2008 10:06 am

Hot ticket: Royale hosts anti red-light camera concert

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

What do you get when you combine a love for rock and a disdain for automated traffic enforcement?

The first ever anti-red light camera concert in St. Louis — and perhaps anywhere.

The concert will “raise awareness and funds to fight red-light…

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09.30.2008 2:02 pm

Watch: Bosley on red-light cameras

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Seeking more information, the Board of Aldermen’s Ways and Means Committee delayed judgment on legislation that would put some of the revenue from red-light camera citations back into the wards where the infraction took place.

Watch Aldermam…

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09.30.2008 8:34 am

Hearing today on plan to divvy up red-light camera cash

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Aldermen will hear a proposal this morning on a push to put some of the revenue raised from red-light traffic areas back into the neighborhood.

Alderman Freeman Bosley Sr.’s wants 2o percent of the city’s take on each camera citation to…

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09.16.2008 6:57 am

Aldermen want slice of red-light camera revenue

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Red-light traffic cameras have spread like wild fire — some would say locusts — as municipal officials around Missouri and the country realized they could raise revenue without any overhead.

At St. Louis City Hall, now aldermen want some of that…

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