Coffee shop talk is that the P-D is exactly right. Obama-Clinton rivalry is at the heart of the Storch-Roberts race. Storch needs to start looking for another job, because Roberts will be able to raise more money than she can, and the Democratic heavy hitters (Carnahan, Nixon, et al.) are not going to go too […]

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By Dwight Bitikofer The long-running National Public Radio broadcast of Garrison Keillor’s “Prairie Home Companion” radio show includes fictitious sponsors. One of those is the Fearmonger Shop, a place that sells all those things you might need if everything you are afraid of were to actually happen. I think we all carry around varying amounts […]

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From The Riverfront Times: By Chad Garrison Early last month Riverfront Times sent Mayor Francis Slay’s office a list of questions concerning the city’s use of red-light cameras. Slay’s spokesman Ed Rhode answered some of our queries, but he ignored others entirely despite numerous follow-up calls. Curiously enough, one query — concerning how people who […]

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From The South County Truth Spot:  The powerful fire fighters unions have again poked their fingers in the eyes of South County taxpayers. South County state representatives Walt Bivins (R-97) and Jim Lembke (R-85) have co-sponsored HB 1730 which authorizes a fire protection district to submit to the voters a decrease in the property tax […]

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From The Black Snob: (photos Hat tip Show Me Progress) Barack Obama killed it at the Edwards Jones Dome in St. Louis Saturday. Despite the snow thousands packed the arena to get a gander at Obama. He worked the crowd. I, alas, did not attend, but watched the event unfold live on the ol’ C-SPAN. […]

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St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay on the impact of the subprime mortage crisis. Click here to listen.

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By Lucas Hudson The city’s sweltering racial thermometer portends an all-out political meltdown as Mayor Francis Slay was booed right out of the Old Courthouse by supporters of the city’s ousted first black fire chief, Sherman George, as he gave a speech Jan. 21 honoring Martin Luther King Jr. This humiliating show of resentment demonstrates […]

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Fox2 St. Louis morning anchor John Pertzborn – known to be a real team player among his colleagues – posted the following terse comment in regards to a post we did several weeks ago on “Slimy weasel scumbag” attorney Chet Pleban’s appearance on his show. We complained that Pleban was able to give his comments […]

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We offered St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay some unsolicited advice yesterday after his Monday MLK fiasco. We suggested that the Mayor should have avoided the event all together, and instead, offered a statement mentioning the “vocal few” that were there to disrupt his speech. Later in the day, KMOX reporter Kevin Killeen said in his […]

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St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay “Chillin’ Like A Villain” By Chad Garrison Somewhere in Arizona a CEO by the name of Jim Tuton is smiling. In early 2006 I took a look at how St. Louis awarded Tuton’s American Traffic Solutions (ATS) with a multimillion-dollar contract to install red-light cameras in the city. My reporting […]

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