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Mark Schlinkmann @markschlinkmann

Reporter, StL Post-Dispatch, covering politics & government since 1984. Previously covered Mo state politics for 10 years for KC Star/Times. South StL native.

Joined December 2009
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Could red-light cameras return to some St. Louis intersections? stltoday.com/news/local/crim… via @stltoday

Could red-light cameras return to some St. Louis intersections?

The St. Louis mayor's office says the city is exploring "automated enforcement solutions" to discourage dangerous driving.

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Paul Beckerle, former St. Louis alderman, dead at 66 stltoday.com/news/local/govt… via @stltoday

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Loop Trolley to get $1.26 million after regional board approves federal grant stltoday.com/news/local/govt… via @stltoday

Loop Trolley to get $1.26 million after regional board approves federal grant

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.

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HNTB recommended to design MetroLink fare collection gates stltoday.com/news/local/govt… via @stltoday

Kansas City-based firm recommended to design MetroLink fare collection gates

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

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Loop Trolley starts anew in St. Louis; even its riders disagree on its worth stltoday.com/news/local/govt… via @stltoday

Loop Trolley starts anew in St. Louis; even its riders disagree on its worth

The Loop Trolley, which reopened Thursday, will operate through Oct. 30 from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.

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Cori Bush trounces Steve Roberts in 1st District U.S. House race stltoday.com/news/local/govt… via @stltoday

Cori Bush trounces Steve Roberts in 1st District U.S. House race

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.

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Cori Bush has big lead over Steve Roberts in early vote tally stltoday.com/news/local/govt… via @stltoday

Cori Bush trounces Steve Roberts in 1st District U.S. House race

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.

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Bush enjoys big fundraising advantage over challenger Roberts stltoday.com/news/local/govt… via @stltoday

Bush enjoys big fundraising advantage over challenger Roberts

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

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Three members of ‘the squad’ stump for US Rep. Cori Bush in St. Louis stltoday.com/news/local/govt… via @stltoday

Three members of ‘the squad’ stump in St. Louis for US Rep. Cori Bush

Reps. Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley and Rashida Tlaib of the group of progressive congresswomen appear with their St. Louis colleague at three events Friday.

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Kummer added to St. Louis aldermanic president ballot; rival sues to remove him stltoday.com/news/local/govt… via @stltoday

Kummer added to St. Louis aldermanic president ballot; rival sues to remove him

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

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Third candidate turns in signatures to run for St. Louis aldermanic president stltoday.com/news/local/govt… via @stltoday

Third candidate turns in signatures to run for St. Louis aldermanic president

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

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New agency on St. Louis police misconduct OK’d despite officer groups’ opposition stltoday.com/news/local/crim… via @stltoday

New agency on St. Louis police misconduct OK’d despite officer groups’ opposition

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.

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St. Louis aldermen pass $1M abortion fund, await legal challenge from Schmitt stltoday.com/news/local/govt… via @stltoday

St. Louis aldermen pass $1M abortion fund, await legal challenge from Schmitt

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...

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St. Louis aldermen pass $1M abortion fund, OK new police oversight agency stltoday.com/news/local/govt… via @stltoday
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Ex-FBI agent tapped to head new St. Louis agency to probe police misconduct stltoday.com/news/local/crim… via @stltoday

Ex-FBI agent tapped to head new St. Louis agency to probe police misconduct

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

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St. Louis aldermen advance bill for new agency to probe police misconduct allegations stltoday.com/news/local/crim… via @stltoday

St. Louis aldermen advance bill for new agency to probe police misconduct allegations

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

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St. Louis fiscal body backs $1M fund to help women get out-of-state abortions stltoday.com/news/local/govt… via @stltoday

Schmitt renews threat to sue St. Louis after top fiscal body backs $1M fund to help women get...

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

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Jack Coatar joins Megan Green in qualifying for St. Louis aldermanic president race stltoday.com/news/local/govt… via @stltoday

Jack Coatar joins Megan Green in qualifying for St. Louis aldermanic president race

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

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Election of new 11th Ward alderman leaves St. Louis board 3 short stltoday.com/news/local/govt… via @stltoday

Election of new 11th Ward alderman leaves St. Louis board 3 short

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

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St. Louis mayor joins Biden, others to tout new federal gun law stltoday.com/news/local/govt… via @stltoday

St. Louis mayor joins Biden, others to tout new federal gun law

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

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