By Maurice Harris The face of public education in Saint Louis is changing. Although court challenges continue, the city’s school board has become superseded by a new transitional board appointed by Gov. Matt Blunt, Mayor Francis Slay, and Lewis Reed, president of the Board of Aldermen. It’s a change that makes sense: During the past […]

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Businessman and Show Me Institute President Rex Sinquefield was a noticeable player in the last two campaign finance quarters. He says though that his contributions are “laughably small in the grand scheme of things.” (PICTURE: Wall Street Journal) From CDT Politics Blog: The rush of campaign finance reports have come and gone, but one of […]

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Well, you can’t get them all right. According to this email we received from the tipline,  former House Speaker Pro Tem Bearden is starting a lobbying career instead of heading to the Show Me Institute. Scooter Carl Bearden and Keith Kirk announced in St. Louis just a few minutes ago that they are joining a […]

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  Brian Johnson, state coordinator for the Children’s Education Alliance of Missouri, sent us this editorial discussing the need for school choice in our public schools – especially in the soon to be unaccredited – Riverview Gardens District in suburban St. Louis. According to the organization’s website, “the Children’s Education Alliance of Missouri is a […]

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The recent Pub Def headline: “Ding Dong the Witch is Dead” is certainly appropriate here when it comes to the state’s euthanasia of the incompetent St. Louis City School Board. An anonymous blogger in America has a few thoughts: “I wish that I could say that having a complete novice in public education (who sent […]

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More proof for the need for school choice, especially in our poor and minority communities. By David Hunn MOLINE ACRES — Riverview Gardens school leaders removed Superintendent Henry Williams three months ago, but they’re still paying him $13,300 a month in salary and $700 a month in car allowances. According to district records, Williams has […]

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From well-placed observer: Hey Dave, I don’t know if this is too insider baseball stuff, but I thought I would share with you some thoughts you can take or leave. Mike Gibbons uses words like bipartisan and cooperation, but that couldn’t be further from the truth in the way the senate was run this; year…and […]

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What’s the saying about politics make strange bedfellows? Powerful Jeff City lobbyist Travis Brown brought this truism to light last week. Brown, who contributes generously to Democrats, lent his personal airplane to Democrat lt. governor candidate Sam Page for his campaign announcement fly around. Kansas Governor and Democratic Governor’s Association Chair Kathleen Sebelius, wrote this […]

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The soap opera known as the St. Louis School Board has taken another sad turn, just days before the board is due to officially lose its power to the state. Thankfully, the sands have just about run out on the hourglass of this deeply dysfunctional board. The St. Louis Post Dispatch obtained an email where […]

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St. Louis race baiter and radio talk show host Lizz Brown’s hypocrisy has finally come full circle. Brown who tells her listeners daily that she’s “living her life as a liberal and loving it,” has received a $25,000 no bid contract from the soon to be powerless, St. Louis School Board. The Post also reported […]

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