Frankie Freeman

St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay has been reaching out quietly, but broadly, for creative approaches to engaging the community on matters of race.

He wants ideas that are regional in scope because racial understanding is a regional goal and racial division…

At its meeting Wednesday, the East-West Gateway Council of Governments board is expected to take up the agency’s staff report which, to my way of thinking, confirms that local governments have wasted billions of dollars in taxpayer money subsidizing private…

Since 1990, the St. Louis region’s crazy quilt of taxing authorities has dedicated more than $2 billion in public money to subsidize private “economic development” projects. And there’s almost nothing to show for it.

At best, the subsidies have created a…

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The size of the economic stimulus package that may be proposed by the incoming Obama administration grows larger by the minute. At last measurement, it was approaching $1 trillion.

That has generated a list-making frenzy by local governments, state agencies…