Throughout the Democratic and Republican conventions, we’ll be providing short profiles of local delegates.

Here is another “Delegate Spotlight.”

Name: Hardy Billington

Age: 55

Hometown: Poplar Bluff, Mo.

Political experience: Vice chairman of the Butler County GOP; president of the Poplar Bluff…

Are Bill Haas and Capitol Hill made to be together?

We’ll see, but for now, what we know is this: Haas won a crowded Democratic primary tonight, and will face incumbent Republican U.S. Rep. Todd Akin in the November general…

Adding to the intrigue in what has become an acrimonious State House primary in the area around Tower Grove Park, one of the five Democrats running announced today that he has effectively dropped out.

Chad Beffa — a vocal critic of…

Though U.S. Rep. Todd Akin’s job security appears to be firmly intact, that’s not dampening the race to run against him in November.

Five Democrats are competing in next week’s primary for the right to face Akin, a Republican whose district…

Mayor Francis Slay, a sturdy critic of the St. Louis Public Schools, has found a superintendent he likes across the city limits.

On Monday, a note on Slay’s website lauded outgoing Clayton superintendent Don Senti, retiring after more than 12 years…

The Board of Aldermen is poised to rename a street in honor of former School Board president Harold Brewster, who died last month.

This morning at City Hall, 19^th Ward Alderman Marlene Davis — a former School Board member who served with…

When Lewis Reed loaned his campaign more than $85,000 of his own money last year, he was essentially betting on himself to beat incumbent Board President Jim Shrewsbury.

The gamble paid off - Reed pulled off an improbably victory - but now…

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…

 State Senate Minority Leader Maida Coleman, D-St. Louis, issued a statement this afternoon that expresses “alarm that the Special Administrative Board (SAB) of the St. Louis Public Schools today fired Superintendent Diana Bourisaw.”

Bourisaw was appointed superintendent by the elected Board…