August 22, 2019
Another View By Chris Gaines Mehlville Listens: Your Schools. Your Voice. Our Future. For the past three years, Mehlville School District has operated in alignment with our strategic plan. This plan guides our work to prepare students for their future, support teachers and create an effective and efficient school district. Our current strategic plan was
[ Read More ]Letter to the Editor To the editor: Green Park Ward 1 Alderman Michael Broughton can’t depend on the people who voted for President Trump to reject him in 2020. Here’s what he should do: Create a phony dossier to link Trump to Russian collusion. Include salacious material to keep it interesting. Give the dossier to
[ Read More ]Letter to the Editor To the editor: In regard to Frank Longo’s June 27 letter praising President Trump’s successes, I disagree with many of his views. He applauds our economy whose numbers look good on paper, but how many middle-class citizens are struggling to pay their monthly bills or have to work two jobs in
[ Read More ]Letter to the Editor To the editor: The headline read, “New round of flood warnings issued as area rivers rise.” At one time this headline would not have put the fear of God in me, but now it does. My family has owned property on the Big River for 70 years. In all those years
[ Read More ]Letter to the Editor To the editor: This is an open letter to both St. Louis County Assessor Jake Zimmerman and County Council Presiding Officer Ernie Trakas. I went to the informal assessment appeal conferences June 6, and I took my photos and bids. The one person displayed total indifference. The other person said what
[ Read More ]Letter to the Editor To the editor: Personally I do not feel any of the County Council members should still even have a job after this latest corruption scandal, much less appoint one of them the county executive. If they had been doing their jobs, neither former County Executives Steve Stenger nor Charlie Dooley would
[ Read More ]Letter to the Editor To the editor: Frank Longo’s June 27 letter, “Trump has many accomplishments, as Crestwood reader cites them,” is an example of the impact propaganda and one-source news has on Americans. Joseph Goebbels, Adolf Hitler’s minister of propaganda, fed the German population the Nazis’ hateful, fascist message via the media of the
[ Read More ]Letter to the Editor To the editor: How many times have I heard that “abortion is a woman’s right”? May I ask who gave a woman this right? The Constitution? I think I have read something about “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,” but not a peep about abortion. Did the U.S. Supreme Court
[ Read More ]Editorial Imagine if Steve Stenger had run an honest campaign for re-election as St. Louis County executive. What would he have said? We’ll use Stenger’s own words — but certainly not the ones he trumpeted in his campaign literature. He always proclaimed that he was an “attorney and CPA,” but he’s neither anymore. The campaign’s
[ Read More ]Letter to the Editor To the editor: The city of Sunset Hills is trying a trick play with its new zoning code. There are two major changes that will directly and adversely impact the residents. First, the new code will reduce the number of zoning districts from six to four. Lot sizes in three of
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