Our Call: A new tradition with Call-Outs for those in the community
September 4, 2020
Welcome to the Call-Outs, in which we will recognize the people achieving so much for our community, sometimes with little recognition. Arlee Conners. The longtime Oakville High School football coach has been a steadfast presence on the sidelines for OHS for the last 15 years, and stepped down this...
More oversight is always better than less, even now
May 2, 2020
Editorial What is the best way to spend the $175 million St. Louis County will receive in federal funds for the coronavirus response? Who should make those decisions? With a corrupt county executive ousted only a year ago and elections for county executive and council members only a few months away, part...
Our Call: Rallo shows the benefits of the business of corruption
March 12, 2020
Editorial Businessman John Rallo was given 17 months in prison last week by U.S. District Judge Richard Webber — not a light sentence, certainly, but not enough for the crimes Rallo committed either. For his central role in ripping off all 1 million St. Louis County citizens to benefit his bank ac...
Our Call: A year after merger talks, Chiefs get a state together
February 6, 2020
Editorial What a difference a year makes. A year ago we were lamenting the fact that the fate of the future of St. Louis government was in the hands of everyone else in Missouri except St. Louis. Yes, it was Jan. 28, 2019, when St. Louis County Executive Steve Stenger, now of South Dakota, and St. Lo...
Our Call: Closed sessions happen too much for transparency
January 23, 2020
Editorial For decades, we’ve believed that local government boards have held closed sessions for discussions that could and should be held in public. But without being in the closed sessions ourselves, that’s difficult to figure out and even harder to prove. Board members often misunderstand that boards...
Our Call: Charter panel, Freeholders should be open for public
January 2, 2020
Editorial The St. Louis County Charter Commission only had until Dec. 31 to come up with changes to the county Charter, the constitution-like document that governs the county, but it didn’t agree on any major proposals. The commission did choose to send at least 14 relatively minor proposals to the ba...
Our Call: Diversity and inclusion are important; so is Santa
December 24, 2019
Editorial One of the longest-running traditions in the 30 years of The Call is local students writing letters to Santa, an annual chronicle of what toys are most popular and what hopes and dreams children have. Since at least 2007, students from both Lindbergh Schools and the Mehlville School District...
Our Call: Council GOP fumbles its chance to shine for voters
December 12, 2019
Editorial In the 30 years The Call has been covering St. Louis County government, it has historically been the Democrats on the County Council who have repressed free speech and public comment, while Republicans have been the voice of reason arguing that residents should have more access to their publ...
Our Call: Future of airport is not just a city issue, but a county one
December 5, 2019
Editorial If, like us, you spent significant time at St. Louis Lambert International Airport over Thanksgiving, you know you have a stake in how the airport is operated. The city of St. Louis has been marching toward privatizing the region’s international airport for over a year, but so far St. Louis Co...
Our Call: Council leaves the people out of people’s business
November 26, 2019
Editorial How can you conduct the people’s business without the people? That is the question we’re stunned that we now have to ask of St. Louis County government. But it’s one that must be asked as the County Council has voted the last two weeks to move public comments at its meetings to the e...
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