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09.11.2009 10:30 am

Legislators speak at state’s rights event

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Jim Lembke

Jim Lembke

Brian Nieves

Brian Nieves

A rally Thursday evening in Washington, Mo., calling for more state’s rights and less government drew State Sen. Jim Lembke, R-south St. Louis County, and State Rep. Brian Nieves, R-Washington, as speakers.

A group, I Heard the People Say,…

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01.20.2009 8:28 am

D.C. metro traffic jams for Obama inauguration

Post-Dispatch Springfield Bureau

WASHINGTON - Ominous transit moment on my way downtown on the Metro. Hundreds of people packed into a train, getting more crowded with every stop, when the lights started turning on and off and the operator came on the intercom…

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01.19.2009 9:27 am

Mixed emotions on the inaugural road to Washington

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

For Maxine Johnson of St. Louis, the excitement of going to Washington, D.C. to witness the inauguration of the 44th president was tempered by sadness.

Johnson’s mother, Helen Underwood, 78, was buried the day before buses pulled away from a Target…

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01.16.2009 9:02 am

St. Louisans to begin journey to Washington for Obama’s inauguration

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
The U.S. Capitol, for the presidential inauguration

Destination: The U.S. Capitol, for the presidential inauguration

Tomorrow evening on the outskirts of Jennings, three tour buses will pull into the Buzz Westfall Plaza in front of the Target store.  There, an expected 130 Barack Obama supporters will gather their…

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