Soulard Mardi Gras Parade 2000 (Photo by Jerry Naunheim Jr.)
With municipal budgets expected to be stagnant or worse for years to come, and with police services usually the largest item on those budgets, how should cities set priorities?
Obviously, the first priority…
Chrysler Chairman Lee Iacocca and President Ronald Reagan inspect assembly line at the Fenton plant in 1983. Scott Dine / Post-Dispatch
The last Dodge Ram pickup rolled off the assembly line at the Fenton North Plant on Thursday. The South Plant,…
A sign marks the offices of Hi-Tech Security, a private company that patrols residential neighborhoods in the city. Elie Gardner/Post-Dispatch
It’s no secret that many, if not most, police officers “moonlight.” Officers depend on overtime or off-duty jobs to supplement their…
At the White House last week, President Barack Obama had a word of warning for the nation’s mayors, agog with the thought of all that economic stimulus money:
“We have asked for the unprecedented trust of the American people,” Mr. Obama said,…
Larry Williams/Post-Dispatch
On March 3, voters in St. Louis’ Shaw Neighborhood will decide a local tax initiative. Actually, “hyper local” better describes it.
The tax would apply in just 1/100th of the city, the 54 blocks that make up the neighborhood just to…
No politician ever got into trouble for wanting to build more jail cells or enacting tougher criminal punishments. Few prosecutors ever were punished for seeking a maximum sentence, nor judges for throwing the book at a defendant.
Locking up convicts —…
Eddie Roth/Post-Dispatch
St. Louis Board of Alderman President Lewis Reed paid us a visit this morning, catching us up with various initiatives from his office.
He came with Harry Kennedy in tow, his new legislative director and a longtime Missouri lawmaker.
Mr. Reed ran…
St. Louis Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce proposed last week a discrete but significant exercise in regionalism: St. Louis and St. Louis County should merge their jury pools.
Ms. Joyce is on the right track. But she should think bigger.
City residents do…
The Post-Dispatch editorial page welcomed St. Louis Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce to The Platform.
