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From the mayor’s blog:
Yesterday was a low point in the City’s hospitality. Badly supervised City employees callously destroyed the possessions of some homeless people who had chosen to camp illegally and for a extended period of…
Missouri State Senator Brad Lager
Some Missouri lawmakers are trying to gut the state’s Historic Preservation Tax Credit program, a blow that would cripple a vital economic engine around the state, but particularly in the city of St. Louis.
A group led by…
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Missourians have a right to know where Gov. Jay Nixon stands on the allocation of federal stimulus money coming to Missouri for transportation projects.
The federal money comes with some strings attached, and it’s Mr. Nixon’s job to ensure that…
Reconfiguring the Chestnut Street interchange off of I-64 is among the projects proposed by the city of St. Louis. (J.B. Forbes | Post-Dispatch)
Federal stimulus funds heading this way for road and bridge projects will create work and inject cash into the…
Eddie Roth/Post-Dispatch
Mayor Francis Slay was in to see us yesterday, the first of the three candidates in the Democratic primary for Mayor to talk with us (Irene Smith is coming in this morning. Denise Watson Wesley Coleman is expected Wednesday morning.)
During…
Maida Coleman (AP Photo/Kelley McCall)
There’s certainly reason to be skeptical:
On Jan. 2, the last day to file for the Democratic primary for mayor of St. Louis, two would-be rivals to two-term incumbent Mayor Francis Slay appeared at the St. Louis…
St. Charles County Executive Steve Ehlmann recently proposed that the East-West Gateway Council of Governments study whether local governments get their money’s worth when they give economic incentives to developers.
The council agreed, and as it happens, there’s a deal in the…
Recent troubles at two local charter schools offer more evidence that while charters someday might be a viable educational alternative for parents unhappy with St. Louis Public Schools, they have no magic powers. Indeed, the charters are prone to the same…
I am having lunch next week with St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay.
I knew Mayor Slay back in my law practice days — not well, but knew him from around the courthouse and because his firm and my firm represented different…
Sunday’s Commentary page is devoted entirely to the issue of charter schools, particularly whether they have the potential to improve the education of children in the St. Louis Public Schools district. The material grew out of a recent meeting of the…
