St. Louis officials allegedly violated the law when they closed public records and public meetings regarding the airport privatization deal, according to a lawsuit filed on Friday, December 6 by transparency advocates.
November 14 was Mayor Lyda Krewson’s birthday.
It’s Thanksgiving time, when Political EYE gives thanks to those politicians whose tireless service and disservice makes this column possible all year long.
It is bone-chilling to read how undercover cop Luther Hall was beaten and arrested on September 17, 2017.
Source: Cameras: 2019 video camera audits submitted by the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department and the Street Department to the city’s operations director Homicide data: St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department Income and race data: US Census Map by Kuang Keng Kuek Ser and Taylor Eldrid…
As expected, Alderwoman Megan Ellyia Green (D-15th award) is running for the state Senate seat being vacated by term-limited state Senator Jamilah Nasheed (D-St. Louis). And, as expected, her announcement on Monday, October 14 sparked a heated conversation about a white candidate trying to w…
Thirteen community groups (undersigned below) issued the following open letter to St. Louis Public Safety Director Jimmie Edwards.
What do St. Louis Mayor Lyda Krewson and U.S. President Donald Trump have in common? The same thing their first directors of Communication, Koran Addo and Sean Spicer, have in common. They all inherited from their predecessor a media list that included The St. Louis American – and then elimi…
Missouri Chief Justice George W. Draper III gave a stinging rebuke to Missouri lawyers in his address at the joint annual meeting of The Missouri Bar and the Judicial Conference of Missouri on September 19. This is edited from his remarks.
More than 340 St. Louis Metropolitan police officers are named in a class-action lawsuit filed todayagainst the individual officers and the City of St. Louis, alleging the unlawfully pepper spraying, beating and “kettle” arrests of more than 120 people on Sept. 17, 2017.
August 9 was such a towering milestone in the St. Louis region – five years after the Ferguson Police killing of Michael Brown – that not much public attention was paid to another anniversary two days before. August 7 marked one year since Wesley Bell crushed incumbent St. Louis County Prose…
What if Better Together’s proposal had gone before the voters and been passed, as the editorial board of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch urged voters to do? What if Steve Stenger had become the new unelected mayor of the expanded metro St. Louis, as Better Together proposed (and St. Louis Mayor …
Dear Gov. Parson,
The community is once again in shock and mourning for the senseless murder of another innocent child, a young girl, which brought the number of victims to 12 this year alone. She had recently attended our back-to-school fair. We hardly have the time to mourn one young life lost when another …
Lamar Johnson’s 1994 murder conviction was allegedly steeped in corruption from both police and prosecutors, and new evidence proves that the African-American man is innocent, said St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kimberly Gardner in a July 19 court motion to get Johnson a new trial.
Missouri Republicans elected to statewide positions have been moving on up, and now Missouri’s only statewide elected Democrat – state Auditor Nicole Galloway (D-Columbia) – is trying to make her own move up to governor. She surprised no one conversant with Missouri politics when she announc…
State Rep. Bruce Franks Jr. submitted his letter of resignation from his 78th District seat on July 31, and has publicly explained that he needed to address some issues of anxiety and depression. Two young, talented black men have put their names into the hat to be Franks’ successor – Rashee…
When Redditt Hudson was working as an undercover St. Louis cop trying to bust drug dealers in North City, he had a conversation with a father that he’ll never forget.
On the outside, it seems like a win for the black community and anyone else who would like to see the old boys’ club in St. Louis disrupted and held accountable.
Before Jimmie Edwards became St. Louis’ public safety director, he was a circuit judge and a lawyer. Now he commands the police and fire departments, the jails and various others divisions.
After hearing the heartbreaking stories of children in inhumane and unsanitary detention centers — that experts are now deeming concentration camps – many St. Louisans have been asking what they can do.
St. Louis County Executive Sam Page has recommended to the St. Louis County Council an impressive list of nominees for a new Justice Services Advisory Board to advise the director of the Department of Justice Services regarding the policies and operations at the County jail in Clayton.
On June 18, Circuit Attorney Kimberly M. Gardner sent a letter to the Director of Public Safety Jimmie Edwards and the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Chief John Hayden to inform them of the actions she has taken regarding the racially charged social media posts of current and retired city pol…
The St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department needs to cut out its “cancer,” city residents testified at the aldermanic Public Safety Committee meeting on Monday, June 10. And the cancer is the police officers whose bias is so overwhelming that they’ve shown they can’t be in a position to tak…
The Political EYE often has found Post-Dispatch reporters, editors and columnists in contempt of the black community and the standards of evidence-based journalism – especially in the paper’s dangerous addiction to huffing swirling rumors of alleged federal investigations into black public o…
Those who think crooked cops run St. Louis must be following the current attack on St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner with interest.
This is a story about names and initials in a federal indictment.
Forgive Political EYE for taking one more bite out of the poison apple of the Steve Stenger federal indictment and guilty plea to corruption while in office as St. Louis County Executive, but there is just so much to say in its 44 pages.
April 24 marks six years that 25-year-old Cary Terrell Ball Jr. was shot 25 times by St. Louis city police in the neighborhood just north of downtown -- while families and children watched.
The St. Louis Board of Aldermen made history on a few fronts this week. And the EYE agrees with Alderwoman Sharon Tyus, D-1st Ward, that the good news should be told first: for the first time, there are 14 alderwomen and 14 aldermen on the St. Louis Board of Aldermen.
The Post-Dispatch’s continued reporting on the real, actual, unquestionable and verified federal investigation into St. Louis County Executive Steve Stenger and his administration’s awarding of county contracts makes a number of things unmistakably clear.
Rev. Starsky D. Wilson, president and CEO of Deaconess Foundation and former co-chair of the Ferguson Commission, contributes this week’s guest Political EYE.
In the earliest hours of Sunday, March 24, as far as the public knew, St. Louis County Executive Steve Stenger was a made man. An organization funded and driven by a billionaire was pushing for a statewide ballot initiative that would make him (in effect) mayor for life of a newly merged and…
If you are talking about “debtor jails” in the City of St. Louis, then you are talking about the Medium Security Institution, commonly known as the Workhouse, community organizers said at a panel discussion on Thursday, March 7.
St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner says a search warrant demanding thousands of records from her office is the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department’s latest attack against her – and one that puts countless people’s privacy at risk.
Some things are so obvious they go without saying. Others, despite their obviousness, need to be said clearly and loudly. Judging by the sheer number of conversations carried out in hushed tones over the past few months, this piece falls into the latter category.
The St. Louis American has endorsed Jamilah Nasheed over incumbent Lewis Reed and Megan Ellyia Green in the Democratic primary for president of the St. Louis Board of Aldermen on Tuesday, March 5. The American asked Nasheed about Mayor Krewson’s endorsement of Lewis Reed, legislation that th…
Board of Alderman President Lewis Reed is facing the challenge of his political career, fighting a two-front battle in the March 5 municipal Democratic primary against state Senator Jamilah Nasheed and Alderwoman Megan Ellyia Green. (Alternate take: Reed is facing a serious challenge from Na…
Forget fentanyl, oxy, and crack. The most powerful drugs damaging St. Louis and America are selfishness and stupidity. And the cut-taxes-at-any-cost movement is a CDC-worthy epidemic of both.
A debate for Board of Aldermen president on Saturday, January 26 turned into a showdown between the two African-American candidates – incumbent Lewis Reed and challenger Jamilah Nasheed.
One of the big selling points of the city-county merger plan from the Better Together group is that it would eliminate dozens of often-tiny police departments in the county, along with the county and city police departments, and replace them with one, unified metro-city cop shop.
Donna Rogers helps get the crops planted and keeps the money flowing in rural Missouri. The 51-year-old North County single mother of two processes loans from the federal government to farmers, loans used to buy everything from seed for spring planting to new tractors to irrigation systems. …
Maybe because he was born, raised, and still lives in Canada, former Wall Street Journal editorial writer and George W. Bush speechwriter David Frum never bought into the GOP’s inevitable drift into white nationalism.
Christians have been disguising one thing as another at least since 336 AD, when the Roman Emperor Constantine decided to co-opt the Roman solstice celebration of Saturnalia and the “barbarian” Celtic Yule festivities by officially declaring December 25 Jesus’ birthday. That way, Christians …
The St. Louis Police Officers Association (SLPOA) is a “labor union” in the same way the Ku Klux Klan is a “fraternal organization.” The description is technically correct as far as it goes. But it doesn’t go nearly far enough.
In a country that needs to laugh to keep from crying, a Saturday Night Live sketch this last weekend hit our national funny bone with a ballpeen hammer. Called “Them Trumps,” it asked “What if Trump was black?’ and presented President Darius Trump with wife Malika and their children Darius J…
Luther Hall became one of the few black detectives in St. Louis’s racially divided police department despite having cost the city $865,000 in damages in 2010 when a federal jury found that he had beaten a handcuffed suspect in 2008. Since the St. Louis Board of Police Commissioners had ruled…
If stupidity were oil, America would be Saudi Arabia. We elected Trump. We believe idiot fake stories on Facebook. We mainline conspiracy theories like a back alley oxy fiend. We think vaccines cause diseases. We love guns, believe climate change is a hoax, and use motorized scooters at the …
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