Email Author Chad Garrison

Awards

• 2008 - National Association of Black Journalists Awards, published April 4, 2007

  "The Mystery of Lloyd Gaines"

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2007 Stories by Chad Garrison

• Helter-Smelter

  published November 28, 2007

  After waging a three-month battle with local officials over plans to build an iron-ore smelter in Crystal City, residents of the Jefferson County... More >>

• Field of Screams

  published November 14, 2007

  University of Missouri-St. Louis baseball coach Jim Brady will not let it go. The nearly $2 million age-discrimination suit he won against the... More >>

• Prince Joe's Victory

  published November 7, 2007

  After waging a three-year battle with Major League Baseball, Riverfront Times columnist Joe Henry has won inclusion in a pension program... More >>

• Food Fight

  published October 24, 2007

  As far as junkyards go, residents of Dogtown say the auto salvage lot at 6455 Manchester was a decent-enough neighbor. It occupied the same twelve... More >>

• Fallen Star

  published October 17, 2007

  In the end, neither a letter from Governor Matt Blunt nor the recommendation of Mayor Francis Slay was enough to sway the jury. Mickey Carroll... More >>

• Law and Anarchy

  published October 10, 2007

  St. Louis Police Chief Joe Mokwa and a handful of police officers could face a civil-rights trial should the United States Court of Appeals uphold... More >>

• The Egg Man

  published October 3, 2007

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• Rockwell Revisited

  published September 5, 2007

  Litigation surrounding a Norman Rockwell painting stolen from St. Louis in 1973 continues to wend its way through court. In February of this year,... More >>

• God. Country (and what a country!). BRANSON.

  published August 15, 2007

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• "Ancient" Chinese Secret?

  published March 14, 2007

  Nourish a child with a degree in philosophy and an insatiable hunger for MSG and trans fats, and what do you get? In the case of Riverfront... More >>

• Money Ball

  published July 18, 2007

  The National Basketball Association won't discuss it and neither will the San Antonio Spurs, Indiana Pacers, Denver Nuggets or the New Jersey... More >>

• Road Warrior

  published July 18, 2007

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• Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star

  published June 27, 2007

  Sixty-eight years ago, a four-foot-seven actor named Mickey Carroll — then just eighteen years old — donned a purple elf's outfit and... More >>

• The Rockwell Files

  published June 6, 2007

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• Bring Back Juneteenth!

  published May 16, 2007

  As legend has it, Texas slaves did not learn of their freedom until Union troops arrived in Galveston Bay on June 19, 1865 — a full two and a... More >>

• Virtually New(s)

  published May 9, 2007

  In November 2005 the St. Louis Post-Dispatch cleared its North Tucker Boulevard headquarters of proverbial deadwood when it offered... More >>

• Dead Pool

  published May 2, 2007

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• The Mystery of Lloyd Gaines

  published April 4, 2007

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• The Strange, Strange Tale of the U.S.S. Inaugural

  published March 7, 2007

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• Nothing But the Truth

  published February 28, 2007

  The fourth annual True/False Film Festival takes place Thursday through Sunday, March 1 through 4, in Columbia. Following are previews of some... More >>

• Wired 4 Wireless

  published February 28, 2007

  Over the past three years, Internet provider EarthLink has established itself as the nation's leading operator of municipal Wi-Fi networks. To... More >>

• Party Foul

  published January 31, 2007

  Mardi Gras Inc. apparently overstepped its bounds when it attempted to force dozens of Soulard bar owners to comply with a sponsorship agreement... More >>

• Bad Hair Days

  published January 17, 2007

  Salon owner Steven Preston Kootman enjoys a bird's-eye view of his business — even when he's at home in the Moorlands neighborhood of... More >>