Sam Richards
A survey shows Festus residents support a ban on smoking in workplaces including restaurant and bars, a statement by the Jefferson County Health Department said today.
Councilman Sam Richards, 4th Ward, on Dec. 16 proposed that the city council should…
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Robert Baer
UPDATE: The County Council voted 4-3 to put the half-cent transit sales tax proposal on the April 6 ballot.
EARLIER: Metro would have to cut half of its transit service if St. Louis County voters don’t approve a half-cent sales…
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Colleen Wasinger
St. Louis County Councilwoman Colleen Wasinger, R-Town and Country, says Metro should have more oversight if county voters approve a half-cent sales tax for the transit agency on April 6.
Wasinger wants the county council to require that Metro do…
[...]The staff of the state auditor’s office today began auditing Florissant after introducing themselves to the Florissant City Council on Monday and appealing to the public for information that they could use in their work.
Allison Bruns, a spokeswoman for the…
[...]The mayor’s race in University City is the only three-way one that developed in major cities this morning when filing for the April 6 local elections in the Missouri side of the region opened.
Running are former Councilwoman Shelley Welsch, 2nd…
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2005 rendering of River City casino
The earlier-than-anticipated opening of the River City casino in Lemay in March could bring more than $2 million in additional revenue to St. Louis County this year.
Pinnacle Entertainment, the casino owner, said this morning that…
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Charlie Dooley
St. Louis County Executive Charlie Dooley is pleased with the reconstruction of Highway 40 between west of Spoede Road and Kingshighway. Traffic congestion that followed the opening of the eastern half of the project last Monday should ease after sightseers…
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Charlie Dooley
MetroLink expansion – a major selling point in past transit tax campaigns – is taking a back seat in the campaign for a half-cent sales tax that is likely to be on the April 6 ballot in St. Louis…
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Jim Lembke
The Legislature next year probably will not provide Metro additional money for its transit system, state Sen. Jim Lembke, R-south St. Louis County, says.
“There won’t be funding beyond the around $1.3 million” that the transit agency usually receives from…
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Catherine Werner
Catherine Werner, an environmental expert and lawyer, is St. Louis’s first sustainability director.
She will work on the city’s energy and environmental conservation projects and seek federal funds for more of them. She also will explain the benefits of such…
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Jim Lembke
Skip Mange
The campaign for a sales tax for an emergency communications system in St. Louis County is not over although 67.74 percent of county voters approved a 0.1-cent sales tax for the system on Nov. 4.
State Sen. Jim Lembke,…
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Charlie Dooley
St. Louis County officials today discussed with the county council a tight budget for next year that would barely keep reserves at the 10 percent level the county needs to preserve its highly-desirable AAA credit rating.
“We may get a…
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John Nations
A campaign for a half-cent increase in the transit tax for Metro will stress the stake the majority of St. Louis County voters — who don’t travel on buses or MetroLink – have in the region’s transit system.
“We’re going…
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Kate Tansey
The St. Louis County Children’s Services Fund Board will try to establish a system of care for the children it is serving, Kate Tansey, its interim executive director, today told a caucus of the county council.
The board would be…
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Calloway was arrested after grabbing a check book at the Northeast fire district
My colleague Elizabethe Holland reports:
Several hours following his arrest Sunday by the Beverly Hills police on a charge of second-degree [...]
Charlie Dooley
St. Louis County plans to retire $5,638,791 in bonds two years early. The move would save the county $400,000 in interest costs, but not give the county much room to propose a “no tax increase” bond issue.
“No tax increase”…
[...]County Citizens for Cleaner Air, the campaign committee that helped persuade St. Louis County voters on Nov. 3 to impose a ban on smoking in almost all indoor public places, has closed.
The group recently filed a report with the Missouri…
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Lowery
Florissant Mayor Robert Lowery and city council members on Monday faced about 60 city police officers whose pay they may cut by 3 percent by the end of the month.
The blue-uniformed officers sat in the back rows of the council chamber.…
[...]West St. Louis County townships provided more votes last Tuesday in St. Louis County for banning smoking in indoor public places, but the strongest sentiment for the ban came from townships in the central part of the county.
The St. Louis…
[...]The Greater St. Louis Bowling Proprietors Association, which campaigned against the ban on smoking in indoor public places that St. Louis County voters approved on Tuesday, has conceded defeat. It hopes non-smokers will come to their bowling centers when the…
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Susan Montee
Here’s a report from my Post-Dispatch colleague Elizabethe Holland:
The long-awaited results of an audit of the Northeast Ambulance and Fire Protection District will be disclosed Nov. 17 by Missouri State Auditor Susan Montee in a public meeting on the University…
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Charlie Dooley
St. Louis County Executive Charlie Dooley’s budget for next year calls for extending a pay freeze for a second year.
Dooley this morning submitted to the county council a total county budget of nearly $498.8 million for next year. The total…
[...]A civic activist from University City has filed an ethics complaint against St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Robert McCulloch relating to the campaign for a countywide 0.1-cent emergency communications sales tax. Voters will consider the tax on Tuesday.
Tom Sullivan, the activist,…
[...]Air filtration systems to curb second-hand smoke got an airing Monday night.
Bill Hannegan, a major opponent of banning smoking in indoor public places, suggested that air filtration systems could be alternative. He and St. Louis County Councilwoman Barbara Fraser, D-University…
[...]The campaign for a 0.1-cent sales tax for an emergency communications system in St. Louis County has drawn the support of some of the region’s largest corporations.
Voters on Nov. 3 will consider the sales tax. A campaign finance report…
[...]Supporters and opponents of a ban on smoking in public indoor areas that is on the Nov. 3 ballot in St. Louis County have together have raised less than $20,000, campaign finance reports show.
State law required the two groups…
[...]Just as numerous police and fire officials began an 11 a.m. newsconference in the St. Louis County Council chambers to support a sales tax for an countywide emergency communications system, a fire that involved eight fire departments and districts broke…
[...]St. Louis County won’t mail its property tax bills until November, giving candidates and backers of issues on the Nov. 3 ballot a break.
Tax bills always will ruffle the feathers of some voters. But since this mail will arrive…
[...]Civic Progress, the organization of the major businesses and banks in the St. Louis region, is the main financial supporter of a campaign for a 0.1-cent sales tax for an emergency communications system in St. Louis County. The proposal will…
[...]With the November 2010 election more than a year away, the race for state senator in the 24th District already is a big money affair.
The four candidates in the race – three Democrats and a Republican – already have…
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Robert McCulloch
St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Robert McCulloch has endorsed a 0.1-cent sales tax for an emergency communications system that is on the ballot countywide on Nov. 3.
“This is extremely important to the county and the whole area,” McCulloch this morning…
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Jonathan Sternberg
Even though the state Supreme Court did not take a case involving Kansas City’s smoking ban in indoor public places, sustaining the ban, the issue in that case could occur in the St. Louis area. This is the view…
[...]The state Supreme Court has rejected a challenge to Kansas City’s smoking ban in indoor public places. The court did not accept to an argument that the city could not ban smoking in places where it was allowed or not…
[...]The Clayton Township Republican Club will hold a candidate forum at at 7 p.m. Oct. 22, at the St. Louis County Library branch at Central and Maryland avenues, Clayton.
A club spokesman said Republican candidates for state auditor, state Senate, and…
[...]Tom Curran started work Monday as St. Louis County’s director of intergovernmental affairs.
He returns to county government after a two-year absence in which he was a vice president of investment banking for Piper Jaffray & Co.
Curran succeeds Darin Cline who…
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Julie Jones
Gov. Jay Nixon has appointed Julie Jones, a lawyer from Ladue, as a member of the St. Louis County Election Board.
Nixon named Jones to the board last Friday. She is Nixon’s second appointment to the board. Last spring, he put…
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Charles Gatton
Tom Sullivan
Campaign committees for and against a smoking ban in public indoor places in St. Louis County registered last Thursday with the St. Louis County Election Board. Voters will consider the issue at a special election Nov. 3.
Citizens for…
[...]A new state law allows school bond issues to pass Nov. 3 by a four-sevenths favorable vote instead of a two-thirds one.
State law requires that bond proposals pass by a four-seventh favorable vote – 57.14 — percent in general…
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Bill Corrigan
Charlie Dooley
A Republican candidate for St. Louis County executive said today he would on “day one” of his administration impose an ethics code on top officials that would promote accountability and transparency.
Voters will elect a county executive in November…
[...]The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District may change its name.
The agency’s staff has made 17 suggestions ranging from catchy phrases to boring ones to a commission that is considering revising the district’s charter.
Among the ideas: St. Louis Clean Water Services,…
[...]A 0.1-cent sales tax on the Nov. 3 ballot for a countywide emergency communications system in St. Louis County has drawn endorsements from the region’s major business and labor organizations.
The campaign committee for the proposal on Monday announced that…
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Barbara Fraser
Gerry Welch
The ban on smoking in indoor public places on the Nov. 3 ballot in St. Louis County won the endorsement of the St. Louis County Municipal League with ease Thursday night.
About 60 municipal officials attended the league’s monthly…
[...]The Bonhomme Township Democratic Club on Thursday will present speakers to discuss three issues on the Nov. 3 ballot in Kirkwood. The program will start at 7 p.m. at the Highlands Brewing Company, 105 East Jefferson Avenue, Kirkwood.
The speakers…
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Charlie Dooley
Bill Corrigan
UPDATE: A meeting that was rumored to happen last Saturday involving St. Louis County Executive Charlie Dooley on Monday drew criticism from Bill Corrigan, a Republican running for Dooley’s job.
Corrigan said in a statement that the session involved…
[...]A rally to promote a proposal for the state to require insurance companies to cover autism treatments will be from noon to 4 p.m. Sunday at T.R. Hughes Ballpark in O’Fallon, Mo.
Former major league baseball stars Lou Brock of the…
[...]The public was aware that developers of a casino entertainment complex in Spanish Lake had to go through a lot of hoops to get the approvals for their project.
On Monday, the staff of the county planning department listed several…
[...]Opponents of a casino and entertainment complex along the Mississippi River in Spanish Lake plan to picket in front of the St. Louis County Administration Building at 5:30 p.m. today.
The picketing would be shortly before the county planning commission considers…
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Mange
Supporters of a 0.1-cent sales tax for emergency communications have built their campaign organization for the Nov. 3 election in St. Louis County.
The tax would raise $13.6 million a year to finance a program that would include:
> An $80 million…
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Jim Lembke
Brian Nieves
A rally Thursday evening in Washington, Mo., calling for more state’s rights and less government drew State Sen. Jim Lembke, R-south St. Louis County, and State Rep. Brian Nieves, R-Washington, as speakers.
A group, I Heard the People Say,…
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Mark Langston
Former Maplewood Mayor Mark Langston has become the second Democrat to seek the 5th District seat on the St. Louis County Council in next year’s elections.
He plans soon to organize a campaign committee and announce formally his candidacy.
Langston stressed he…
[...]Smoking lounges at Lambert Airport succeed in keeping smoke in the lounges and out of the concourses where they are located, a recent report says.
Golder Associates Inc., the environmental consultant to the airport, said “smoking lounges are effective at…
[...]CREVE COEUR – A city committee has recommended that the city ban smoking in indoor public places and near playgrounds.
The city council on Monday discussed the recommendation from the recycling, environment and beautification committee, but took no action. Council…
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Steve Stenger
St. Louis County Councilman Steve Stenger, D-Affton, denies he is the sole reason that exemptions from casino floors and bars are in a ban on smoking in indoor public places that voters are likely to consider on Nov. 3.
He…
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Barbara Fraser
St. Louis County Councilwoman Barbara Fraser, D-University City, is ready to introduce a third version of a ban of smoking in indoor public places at Tuesday’s council meeting.
The version retains exemptions for casino floors and bars, but removes triggers…
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Riverview Casino site plan
The St. Louis County Planning Commission will hold a public hearing at 7 p.m. today on a proposal for a casino complex on 376.82 acres along Riverview Drive in north St. Louis County.
A site plan for the…
[...]KIRKWOOD – Choose Kirkwood, which is promoting an initiative that would be an alternative to a smoking ban initiative, wants its proposal and the smoking ban both before the city on Aug. 20, Steve Sheridan, one of the leaders of…
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Jay Nixon
School districts, fire protection and other districts and almost all municipalities in St. Louis County must set their property tax rates by Sept.1, as they had in the past. Some school officials said they won’t have all the information…
[...]CLAYTON — A draft of the smoking ban proposal that St. Louis County voters may consider in November contains two key exemptions — casino floors and bars.
County council members discussed the draft at a caucus meeting this afternoon. The draft…
[...]The St. Louis County Planning Commission will hold a public hearing at 7 p.m. Aug. 10 on a proposal for a casino complex on 376.82 acres along Riverview Drive in north St. Louis County.
The site is just south of the…
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Gerard Ezvan
Banning smoking in indoor public places would hurt the economy, owners of premium cigar stores say.
“The only thing a smoking ban would do is lead the way in increased unemployment…(and) failing businesses,” Chris McCalla, legislative director of the International…
[...]Choose Kirkwood, which opposes an initiative to ban smoking in indoor public places, has received the city’s permission to circulate petitions for an initiative on a competing proposal. The group plans to start seeking signatures this week.
The Choose Kirkwood initiative…
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Arthur McDonnell
Kirkwood will hold its vote on a ban on smoking in indoor public places no matter what St. Louis County does on the issue, Mayor Arthur McDonnell said this morning.
County Councilwoman Barbara Fraser, D-University City, plans to introduce a bill…
[...]University City Mayor Joe Adams raised from April through June nearly four times as much money than State Rep. Theodore “Ted” Hoskins, D-Berkeley, a competitor for the Democratic nomination for state senator from the 14th district, campaign finance reports show.
But Hoskins…
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Fraser, Corcoran and Page
The Democratic primary for state senator in the 24th District in August 2010 shapes up as an expensive contest.
Dr. Sam Page of Creve Coeur, who ran unsuccessfully for lieutenant governor last year, has $152,517.31 in his campaign war…
[...]KIRKWOOD – Healthy Air for Kirkwood, the sponsor of an initiative to ban smoking in indoor public places, has raised $830 and spent $33.56 thus far, a campaign finance report says. Voters will consider the proposal in November.
The report has…
[...]St. Louis County Executive Charlie Dooley and Bill Corrigan, his likely Republican opponent in the November, 2010 election for the office, are raising money at a fast pace, campaign finance reports said.
Dooley, a Democrat, reported raising $320,764.69 between April 1 and…
[...]St. Louis County Executive Charlie Dooley has joined St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay in enjoying the political largess of Rex Sinquefield, a retired investment banker and statewide political activist who focuses on school choice.
Sinquefield met this morning with Dooley and John Temporiti,…
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Arthur McDonnell
Promoters of a ban on smoking in indoor public places in Kirkwood have enough signatures on petitions to start the initiative process that could lead to a vote on the proposal.
The St. Louis County Election Board announced this morning…
[...]St. Louis County recently completed informal conferences on appeals of property tax assessments.
The total of 4,298 sessions this year is about 400 short of 4,683, the average of informal conferences in the five reassessment years in this decade. But this…
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Terri Williams, a former mayor of Webster Groves, will launch her campaign for a seat on the St. Louis County Council in a parade.
Terri Williams
Williams will have a float — “Hometown Girl at Election Time” — in the Webster Groves…
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Joe Adams
After serving more than 33 years as a council member and mayor of University City, Joe Adams is moving to a new political arena.
Adams, the city’s mayor since 1996, is running for state senator in the 14th District. He is…
[...]St. Louis County voters are likely to see a half-cent sales tax to help subsidize Metro’s MetroLink and buses on the ballot next April.
The transit system’s supporters agreed about a month ago to bring back the tax that lost…
[...]Kirkwood now has two groups campaigning on the smoking issue.
Healthy Air for Kirkwood today turned in petitions with 1,258 signatures to force the start of an initiative process that would lead to a ban smoking in indoor public places.…
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Steve Stenger
St. Louis County Councilman Steve Stenger, D-Affton, earlier this month hired a public relations firm. On Tuesday, the company sent out an email declaring Stenger “is a rising star in St. Louis politics.”
“At 37 years old, Mr. Stenger has…
[...]A group that wants Kirkwood to ban smoking in indoor public places today said it is close to reaching its goal of 1,100 signatures on petitions that could lead to an initiative election in November on the matter.
With very…
[...]Two prominent Republicans today endorsed the bid of U.S. Rep. Roy Blunt for the U.S. Senate.
The Associated Press reported that former U.S. Sen. Jim Talent and Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder announced their support for the Congressman’s campaign.
Blunt is…
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Flooding in University City
A committee of the St. Louis County Council will hold a meeting at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday on flooding problems in University City. Council Chairwoman Hazel Erby hopes the session would be a catalyst to get something done about…
[...]A sales tax to pay for an emergency communications system in St. Charles County highlights a small set of special elections on Aug. 4.
The sales tax of one 20th of a cent is the only countywide proposal on the…
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Corrigan
With his family, close friends and some colleagues standing behind him and some key state and local Republicans on their feet in front of him, Bill Corrigan launched his campaign for St. Louis County executive in 2010.
Corrigan, a trial lawyer from…
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Erby
St. Louis County Council Chairwoman Hazel Erby, D-University City, plans to introduce a bill on Tuesday in the council for a countywide election on Nov. 3 for a 0.1-sales tax to finance a countywide emergency communication system.
The tax would generate…
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Clark
St. Louis County Executive Charlie Dooley has appointed a developer working on a project near Lambert Field as a county representative of the St. Louis Airport Commission, the airport’s governing body.
In a letter the county council made public today, Dooley said…
[...]Creve Coeur’s request that St. Louis County ban smoking in public places today officially reached the county council.
The resolution is on the agenda for council meeting at 6 p.m. Tuesday in the County Administration Building in Clayton. The council…
[...]Supporters of a 0.1 cent sales tax to finance an $80 million countywide emergency communications system in St. Louis County have pushed to November the date they want an election on the measure.
Previously, they sought a vote in August. But…
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A voters guide for the St. Louis primary election on March 3 is available on STLtoday.com.
Candidates in contested races who responded to the guide’s questionnaire have provided information about themselves and discussed their priorities and qualifications. The candidates profiles often…
[...]St. Louis County’s future bond issue proposals will become a hard sell because officials can’t promote them as “no tax bond issues” if, as likely, the county council approves a reduction of 3.5 cents for each $100 assessed valuation in…
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Dooley
St. Louis County Executive Charlie Dooley today asked the county council to cut the county’s property tax for debt service by 3.5 cents for each $100 of assessed valuation as an economic stimulus. He also wants the council to drop plans…
[...]A campaign committee promoting a tax increase of 13.5 cents for each $100 of assessed valuation for the Webster Groves library have raised $14,425 for their effort to pass the proposal in a special election next Tuesday. As of Jan.…
[...]St. Louis County has 45 more projects, costing $500 million, to add to its economic stimulus list, Garry Earls, the county’s chief operating officer, on Thursday told the January membership meeting of the St. Louis County Municipal League.
At the group’s…
[...]Directors of the St. Louis County Municipal League and a top county official today agreed to delay until Aug. 4 a vote on an 0.1-cent sales tax to build and initially operate a county emergency communications system.
The sales tax would raise about $15 million a year and finance an $80 [...]
The possibility that St. Louis County voters will consider on April 7 an 0.1-cent sales tax to build and initially operate a countywide emergency radio system is fading, but has not disappeared.
The St. Louis County Municipal League is behind the tax, but the county council must put such a proposal [...]
The timing of an election in St. Louis County on an 0.1-cent sales tax for a countywide emergency communications system remains uncertain as time for a standard process to put the proposal on the April 7 ballot grows short.
County Executive Charlie Dooley today asked the county council to resubmit a [...]
Stenger
The St. Louis County Council got its fifth Democrat today.
U.S. District Judge Rodney Sippel swore in Steve Stenger of Affton as councilman from the 6th District to give Democrats five of the seven seats on the council. Stenger ousted Councilman John Campisi, R-south St. Louis County, [...]
Sterman
The East-West Gateway Council of Governments, which allocates federal transportation and some other U.S. funds in the region, has largely been on the sidelines as local governments prepare wish lists of projects for federal economic stimulus money.
However, Les Sterman, the agency’s executive director, said on Tuesday [...]
While St. Louis County wants most federal economic stimulus money to go to public projects, about one dollar in five in the county’s nearly $1.8 billion economic stimulus proposal would help 10 private developments.
Among them are efforts to revive Crestwood Court (Crestwood Plaza), Northwest Plaza and the South County shopping [...]
East St. Louis will hold a primary on Feb. 24 to eliminate two candidates for city council.
The primary will be the only one in Madison, Monroe and St. Clair counties before local elections on April 7.
Voters in East St. Louis will elect two council members in April. The [...]
A three-way race for mayor shaped up in Lake Saint Louis as the incumbent and two challengers today filed for the seat in the April 7 Missouri local elections. A two-candidate race will occur in Arnold.
O’Fallon and Creve Coeur have candidates who have expressed interest in running, but have not [...]
The St. Louis County’s Blue Ribbon Commission, which has been studying that government’s building and other physical needs, may make recommendations on Tuesday about putting three proposals on the April 7 local election ballot.
The proposals the group will consider are:
â—Ź A 0.1-cent sales tax for a countywide emergency worker [...]
Dooley
St. Louis County Executive Charlie Dooley late this afternoon reacted to the announcement of that Anheuser-Busch Inbev would eliminate about 1,000 jobs in St. Louis. In a statement, he promised to work with regional leaders to “reposition our local economy” to overcome the economic slowdown.
Here is what [...]
Kassander, left, and Dielmann
Creve Coeur City Councilman David Kassander, 3rd Ward, is challenging Mayor Harold Dielmann’s attempt to win his last term as mayor. City voters will select the mayor on April 7.
Kassander has been a councilman since April 2001, representing a part [...]
Stenger
Steve Stenger, the Democratic candidate for St. Louis County Council member from the 6th District, has raised $241,320.28 in his successful bid for the seat. On Nov. 4, he defeated Councilman John Campisi, R-south St. Louis County, who was seeking a third term.
Stenger, a lawyer living [...]
