Reporter, StL Post-Dispatch, covering politics & government since 1984. Previously covered Mo state politics for 10 years for KC Star/Times. South StL native.
The St. Louis mayor's office says the city is exploring "automated enforcement solutions" to discourage dangerous driving.
The board of the East-West Gateway Council of Governments on Wednesday voted 15-5 to OK a $1.26 million federal grant to aid the Loop Trolley.
Kansas City-based HNTB, the only firm to submit a bid to design the new MetroLink fare collection gates, would be paid $6.9 million under a proposal submitted by Metro Transit
The Loop Trolley, which reopened Thursday, will operate through Oct. 30 from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.
U.S. Rep. Cori Bush had campaigned as an uncompromising progressive as likely to make her case in the streets as at the negotiating table.
U.S. Rep. Cori Bush says her 2020 upset win was no fluke and says her record warrants a second term; opponent Steve Roberts says Bush hasn’t made an effective transition
Reps. Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley and Rashida Tlaib of the group of progressive congresswomen appear with their St. Louis colleague at three events Friday.
St. Louis election officials announced that Kummer, an entrepreneur, had enough signatures of registered voters on his petitions, joining Aldermen Megan Green and Jack Coatar on the special Sept. 13
Mark Kummer, an entrepreneur and political newcomer, on Friday became the third candidate to file for St. Louis aldermanic president. If election officials verify he turned in enough valid signatures
St. Louis aldermen on Friday passed legislation setting up a new civilian oversight agency to investigate police misconduct allegations despite opposition from three police employee organizations.
St. Louis officials approved spending federal pandemic aid to provide transportation, child care and other logistical help for city residents getting abortions in Illinois and other states where the...
Matthew Brummund, who worked 20 years in the FBI’s St. Louis division, is the newly-hired commissioner of the city’s Civilian Oversight Board and would shift to heading a proposed new
The St. Louis Board of Aldermen voted 14-3 on Wednesday to give preliminary approval to a new agency to investigate police misconduct. But critics said more work is needed on
The Board of Estimate and Apportionment’s 2-1 endorsement of a $1 million fund to help St. Louis women get abortions in Illinois and other states where the practice remains legal
The city Election Board on Wednesday verifies that Coatar got enough valid signatures. Political newcomer Mark Kummer says he’s circulating petitions to try to qualify for the Sept. 13 primary
Jimmy Lappe, an official with Missouri Jobs With Justice, ran unopposed in Tuesday's special election to fill the remaining 9 months in the term of Sarah Wood Martin, who resigned
Mayor Tishaura O. Jones, the co-chair of Mayors Against Illegal Guns, was part of a crowd invited to the White House Monday to watch the president highlight the new federal