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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2008 Stories by Chad Garrison

• Another Year Up in Smoke as Slay Unveils His '09 Legislative Agenda

  published Dec 30, 2008

  St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay announced his new legislative agenda recently on -- where elser -- his blog.  The tech-savvy mayor's wish list includes many of his perennial goals: additional charte... More >>

• Larry Salci's Latest Trainwreck

  published Dec 30, 2008

  Larry Salci, the former president and CEO of Metro, is back in the news. Salci this week announced that his current firm, Colorado Railcar Manufacturing, has ceased operations and will have no employe... More >>

• Ask a Negro Leaguer's "Prince" Joe Henry Hospitalized

  published Dec 29, 2008

  Former Negro League ballplayer and erstwhile Riverfront Times columnist Joe Henry is reportedly in grave health. Henry's grandson, Sean Muhammad, passed along word that the 80-year-old baseball legend... More >>

• Speaking of Petitions...Please Join Me In Demanding the Resignation of Rams Radio Commentator, Jim Hanifan

  published Dec 29, 2008

  Have you heard the newsr According to Bryan Burwell's sappy tear-jerker in the Post-Dispatch this morning,  57 of the 61 players on the Rams roster have signed a petition asking that the team sig... More >>

• What Do Bakersfield and Charleston Have That St. Louis Doesn'tr

  published Dec 24, 2008

  Men's Health and Women's Health magazines have come out with their ranking of the 100 best -- and worst -- cities in America for healthy living. St. Louis ranks as the second-worst city in both Men's ... More >>

• St. Louis City Treasurer's Office One Big Family, 43 of 200 Employees Related

  published Dec 23, 2008

  News quiz time! Who's the man in the photographr A. Don Vito Corleone.B. Paul Leisure.C. Donnie Brasco.D. Larry Williams, St. Louis City treasurer.Why it's none other than St. Louis' longtime treasure... More >>

• MOBOT's Peter Raven Honored with Lifetime Achievement Award

  published Dec 19, 2008

  From discovering a rare species of plant when he was just fourteen to his three decades at the helm of the Missouri Botanical Garden, Dr. Peter Raven has dedicated his life to botany. Fitting then tha... More >>

• Warrior Poet: Michael O'Brian

  published Dec 16, 2008

  Michael O'Brian was honored last night as St. Louis' "Poet Warrior" for 2008. A regular on the local open-mic scene, O'Brian was instrumental in luring the National Poetry Slam to St. Louis ... More >>

• Egg Man Delivers -- Again

  published Dec 12, 2008

  Famed St. Louis fertility pioneer, Dr. Sherman Silber, has reached another milestone. In a report published yesterday in the New England Journal of Medicine, Silber announced that one of his patients ... More >>

• Alton Confidential: Naked truths about bare-breasted barmaids, horrific murders and the ghosts that haunt our favorite little river town

  published December 10, 2008

  It is a quarter till six on a Thursday night last month, and a small group of regulars is seated around a bar in downtown Alton, Illinois. The... More >>

• KWMU (90.7 FM) Hires New GM to Replace Patty Wente

  published Dec 08, 2008

  University of Missouri - St. Louis announced today the hiring of Tim Eby as general manager of its public radio station, KWMU (90.7 FM). A veteran manager with WOSU Public Media in Columbus, Ohio, Eby... More >>

• Citizens' Group Lands Purchase of Festus Airport

  published Dec 04, 2008

  In a unanimous decision, the Festus City Council agreed last night to sell its municipal airport to an investor group that plans to expand the facility's runway while also creating a mixed-use develop... More >>

• Sale of Airport Could Clear Way for Iron-Ore Smelter

  published Dec 03, 2008

  Remember the controversy last year surrounding a proposed iron-ore smelter in Crystal Cityr I do, but then that's because I spent weeks journeying to Jefferson County to report on a citizens group's e... More >>

• Tattered Tale: A dubious sex and drugs complaint has a St. Louis police officer demanding justice

  published November 26, 2008

  Cassidy Harris was at a south St. Louis bar last winter when she claimed to encounter city police officer Michael Haman acting... More >>

• Oh, Deer: A buck goes nuts in a Town & Country strip mall

  published November 19, 2008

  Town & Country resident Chuck Lenz has made something of a name for himself with his repeated demands that the city do something to control its... More >>

• Webb gems: Saint Louis University professor Joe Webb's online alter ego is a big hit on campus

  published November 12, 2008

  On the first day of school this semester, Saint Louis University associate professor Joe Webb walked into class eating an apple. It wasn't just... More >>

• The Old Switcheroo: UMSL follows its usual playbook in reassigning a controversial administrator

  published October 29, 2008

  John Garvilla was to restore calm and order when he was hired last year to replace Pat Dolan as athletic director at the University of... More >>

• Who Killed Robert Walker?: Court testimony offers hints to an unsolved murder

  published October 22, 2008

  Elijah was three months old when his father, Robert Walker, stepped off a Metro bus and into a hail of gunfire in May 2006. Bullets... More >>

• Mavericky!: Alderman and ex-cop John Hoffmann aims to rid Town & Country of dirty rotten four-flushers, varmints and deer

  published October 15, 2008

  Seated in the office of his modest, 1960s-era ranch home, Town & Country alderman John Hoffmann recounts how earlier this year he exposed the... More >>

• Foreigner's Lou Gramm — touring as a solo artist with his new band — answers our urgent questions, while Old 97's Murry Hammond steps out with a gospel-folk solo record

  published September 17, 2008

  There existed only one band from the late '70s through the early '80s: Foreigner. The group gave us immortal rock tunes such as "Cold as Ice,"... More >>

• Cannon Fodder: The mystery of the Spanish gun in Forest Park

  published September 3, 2008

  Fred Ruhrwien calls his curiosity downright inane, but still, the 79-year-old can't shake his obsession with an old cannon located in Forest... More >>

• Out-of-control shoplifting at the St. Louis Galleria. Violent attacks in the Delmar Loop. Is MetroLink a vehicle for crime?

  published August 20, 2008

  St. Peters alderman Don Aytes remembers well the fears some of his constituents expressed back in 1998, the year MetroLink supporters tried to... More >>

• Fried Rice: Lucas Park residents are fed up with the Rev. Larry Rice and the homeless shelter he runs

  published August 6, 2008

  Andy Martello reached his tipping point on the Fourth of July while walking his four-year-old son past downtown's Lucas Park. The boy wanted to... More >>

• Shooting Stars: St. Louis and homegrown hoopsters shine in Streetballers

  published July 16, 2008

  Streetballers bills itself as an "Irish-urban drama" exploring the lives of two junior-college basketball players and their struggles... More >>

• Payback: Laura Smith blew the whistle on a county sheriff's department bribery scheme, and now she's paying the price

  published July 2, 2008

  With her straight brown hair and designer shades, Laura Smith looks more like a member of the Junior League than a court-appointed strongman.... More >>