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09.03.2008 6:38 am

Delegate Spotlight: Hardy Billington

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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

Here is another “Delegate Spotlight.”

Name: Hardy BillingtonHardy Billington

Age: 55

Hometown: Poplar Bluff, Mo.

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

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08.05.2008 11:50 pm

That’s right: Bill Haas, Democratic nominee for Congress

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Are Bill Haas and Capitol Hill made to be together? Bill Haas

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…

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08.04.2008 4:47 pm

Tower Grove twist: Candidate urges support for rival

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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…

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07.30.2008 10:03 am

Lesser-known Akin rival hits the small screen

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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…

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07.15.2008 6:21 am

Slay lauds outgoing superintendent — in Clayton

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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

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

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05.30.2008 10:56 am

Street would honor former School Board head

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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, 19th Ward Alderman Marlene Davis — a former School Board member who served with…

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04.17.2008 1:35 pm

Eclectic crowd helps Reed chip away at debt

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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…

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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…

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02.12.2008 4:51 pm

Coleman vents over superintendent’s ouster

 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…

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