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Rex suggested the public school system could have (not in a literal sense) created the current public school system to keep black children poor and dumb. It’s not only on the surface offensive, one has to put it in the context of Saint Louis which almost had the SLPS Board taken over by a majority [...]
It doesn’t come out as well in the picture, but this is a pretty typical parking job on my street.
That’s about right. The St. Louis-based cable, TV and Internet company ranks fifth on the list, receiving a satisfaction rating of 59/100. Improper billing practices and poor customer service make up the majority of complaints lodged against Charter, which filed for bankruptcy in 2009, forcing it to downsize and cut costs. Anita Lamont, a [...]
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Saint Louis submits application with half hearted support from RCGA: Brookings officials say RCGA’s attitude was not a factor in the decision to defer St. Louis’ application. Rather, officials cited unresolved — but not insurmountable — questions about whether the St. Louis region has the capacity for kind of “deep private-sector engagement and regional [...]
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Even when small breweries don’t produce brews I like I’m generally of the attitude the more the merrier, but really? William K. “Billy” Busch, 51, said he is close to opening William K. Busch Brewing Co., a brewery that will initially focus on American-style pale lagers, similar to Budweiser and Bud Light. The goal is [...]
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While a bunch of whining twits complain about how one bad restaurant owner means the Loop is falling apart even though the number of restaurants is at least steady and in many ways improving, we get the Post-Dispatch’s brand destroying commenters still going at it: charger said on: June 8, 2011, 1:45 pm [...]
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I got a nice case of some sort of plague from the girls that kept me pretty out of it for the run up to the general election, but thank you to Ward 24 for dispatching Tom Bauer once again. Tom, don’t go away mad, just go away.
No Shit that is. But Chappelle-Nadal’s rhetoric turned decidedly ugly — and some say racist — during an interview on radio station WGNU. On the air, Chappelle-Nadal called St. Louis leaders in favor of local control “house slaves” following the lead of their “plantation owner,” Missouri billionaire Rex Sinquefield, who is helping [...]
Consistency be damned: During Wiegert’s first show, most of the calls were about cops and crime. Typical was one caller’s riff: “You can’t even walk in and buy something in a fast-food place without the fear that someone might come in and rob it and shoot the owner and maybe shoot you for what [...]
While I’m late to the party, Gary Wiegart does a video trying to tie local control of the Saint Louis City police to the New Black Panters. Yeah…all the shit we miss since WGNU went to gospel. For those not familiar with Weigart is he is the knuckle dragging former head of the Saint [...]
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Looking at the various numbers and where the greatest losses are in the City of Saint Louis, it looks pretty clear that North Saint Louis will lose a full ward to the Central Corridor/South City. As I said, let the Craig Schmidt pool begin. While losses are balanced more than I had [...]
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The Mayor’s office has released a fair amount of data now and I’m going through it to see where the losses were. We’ll have to have the Tract data to get a strong understanding of the losses, but it’s interesting to note losses on the South side were only 4,000 less than on the [...]
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The City of Saint Louis lost a bit over 28,000 people since they last Census. With wards averaging about 12,500 people from the last redistricting, new wards will be about 11,400 people . 2 1/4 Wards worth of people are gone. So that means redistricting is going to be especially fun. I’ll be [...]
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A couple folks I know are helping out with a IBM’s Smarter Cities Challenge and asked me to take a look at it–I approve wholeheartedly as it brings out my tech geek and marries it to my city redevelopment ideas. Here’s a bit from IBM: Could your city use an infusion of IBM talent and [...]