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South St. Louis County News

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South St. Louis County News

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Letters to the editor

Watchdog questions chief of staff’s outside jobs

January 24, 2022

To the editor: When the St. Louis County Council held hearings on the county’s 2022 budget I raised an issue concerning Sam Alton, the chief of staff for St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Wesley...

Letters to the editor

Donations to County Executive Page might make him ‘worse’ than Stenger

July 22, 2021

To the editor: When Sam Page was selected by the County Council to be county executive in April 2019, he said pay-to-play was over and there would be a new era of transparency and accountability...

St. Louis County Executive Sam Page helps pack food into a trunk in May 2020 while handing out meals at the Weber Road Library in Affton with the St. Louis County Library and Operation Food Searchs drive-thru meals program.

St. Louis County awards $2.6 million in grants to five organizations providing food

By Gloria Lloyd, News Editor June 16, 2020

St. Louis County is spending $2.6 million from its federal funding for the coronavirus response for food banks and other organizations delivering food to St. Louis County residents, including those in...

Anthony Shahid holds a noose around his neck while reading an old St. Louis Post Dispatch article about former St. Louis County Executive Steve Stenger during public comment at the Nov. 5 county council Meeting. Shahid was among dozens of speakers who spoke out  against the alleged mistreatment of a woman in North County by a St. Louis County police officer. Photo by Erin Achenbach.

Council tries to limit public speakers’ ‘activism’ with new security and ‘ground rules’

November 25, 2019

By Gloria Lloyd News Editor glorialloyd@callnewspapers.com After two weeks of intense public comments at the St. Louis County Council, Presiding Officer Ernie Trakas and the council hope to minimize...

Sam Page is pictured above at a council meeting last summer before he became St. Louis County Executive.  Photo by Jessica Belle Kramer.

Page asks for more money; council holds for months

July 17, 2019

By Gloria Lloyd News Editor glorialloyd@callnewspapers.com  Web Exclusive Update: The County Council voted to approve the supplemental appropriation Tuesday 5-0. Look for the expanded story in a...

Letters to the editor

Sullivan skeptical of Page: ‘He’s as big a problem as Steve Stenger’

May 7, 2019

Letter to the Editor To the editor: The St. Louis County Council recently selected council Chairman Sam Page, D-Creve Coeur, as county executive at a meeting in which the public was prevented from speaking....

North County Recreation Complex

Plan for convention center expansion dedicates funding for new North County projects

May 1, 2019

By Gloria Lloyd News Editor glorialloyd@callnewspapers.com  The contentious debate on extending The Dome football stadium bonds for 40 years to expand the America’s Center convention center in downtown...

The Call makes endorsements for contests in the April 2 election

The Call makes endorsements for contests in the April 2 election

March 27, 2019

Editorial  MSD Proposition S stormwater impervious fee We were neutral on this proposition, but if longtime MSD critic Tom Sullivan actually thinks it might be a good idea, we can’t help but agree....

Pictured above: A map of current identified, unfunded stormwater problems in St. Louis city and St. Louis County. MSD expects that they can resolve all current issues within the next 30 years if Prop S passes. Image courtesy of MSD.

MSD proposes restarting ‘impervious fee,’ now with voter approval; Sullivan is on fence

By Erin Achenbach, Staff Reporter March 27, 2019

Voters in the St. Louis Metropolitan Sewer District will consider Proposition S for Stormwater to address local and regional flooding and erosion on the ballot Tuesday, April 2. If approved by voters,...

Letters to the editor

Reader: St. Louis Zoo does not need any tax hike

November 2, 2018

Letter to the Editor To the editor: Proposition Z is the one-eighth-cent sales-tax increase for the St. Louis Zoo that will be on the Nov. 6 ballot in St. Louis County only. The zoo mainly wants the...

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