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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2009 Stories by Chad Garrison

• Holiday Sneer: Do unscrupulous websites and fire-protection districts mess with our happiness quotient?

  published December 2, 2009

  Where Jackassery Reigns Kudos to Post-Dispatch reporter Elizabethe Holland. Her repeated, in-depth coverage of the astonishingly... More >>

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  Twitter Co-Creator Jack Dorsey Launches New Company -- Square -- with St. Louis Techie

  published Dec 01, 2009

  Here's an update to a story Daily RFT first reported back in September. Today native St. Louisan, Jack Dorsey, better known as the co-founder of the immensely popular social media site Twitter, announ... More >>

• Ladies: Are You Tough Enough for Full-Contact Footballr The St. Louis Slam Want to Know!

  published Dec 01, 2009

  The reigning champs of the Women's Fooball Alliance, a.k.a. the St. Louis Slam, are holding open tryouts this weekend for the upcoming 2010 season. Qualified candidates need "absolutely no experience"... More >>

• Pit Bull Kills Old Lady and Her Poodle in Illinois Town

  published Dec 01, 2009

  Rosie L. Humphries, 85, was walking her pet poodle yesterday afternoon in the small town of Flora, Illinois (100 miles due east of St. Louis) when she was attacked and killed by a pit bull. According ... More >>

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  A Dozen Tix to John Tesh! Who Wants 'Emr

  published Dec 01, 2009

  UPDATED 12/1/09 10:45 a.m.: Don't think there's a wall between the editorial and advertising departments at Riverfront Timesr Think again, dear reader. Since posting this item we've been informed... More >>

• Zhu Zhu Pets Big Hit on Cyber Monday

  published Nov 30, 2009

  It's a good time to be an owner/investor in the St. Louis-based toy company Cepia LLC. Internet searches for the company's Zhu Zhu Pets is off the charts today -- Cyber Monday -- the biggest online sh... More >>

• Happy 174th Birthday, Mark Twain

  published Nov 30, 2009

  Samuel Langhorne Clemens a.k.a. Mark Twain, was born on this day in 1835. Arguably America's greatest writer and certainly the finest from Missouri, Twain grew up in Hannibal. But did you know his bir... More >>

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  Dept. of Ewww!: Lawsuit Claims Drug Caused Woman's Skin to Peel Off, Led to Death

  published Nov 30, 2009

  A relative of a dead Cahokia, Illinois, woman is suing several care centers and medical staff for the death of Earlene Taylor. The suit filed this month by Rosetta Helms -- administrator of Taylor's ... More >>

• The Big Bloody: Body Bagged Behind South City Shop 'n Save

  published Nov 30, 2009

  The body of Donyail Barnes, 31, was discovered Saturday night behind a Shop 'n Save grocery store in the Tower Grove South neighborhood. View Larger MapNearby residents heard shouting and gunfire Satu... More >>

• Attack at Complex Leaves Three Men Injured: "They Start Calling us Faggots"

  published Nov 30, 2009

  Three men were injured early Saturday in an attack outside the gay nightclub Complex on the fringes of downtown St. Louis. The victims say they were leaving the club when a group of four men departing... More >>

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  Christmas Ornament Features Albert Pujols Bracing for Tremendous Bowel Movement

  published Nov 30, 2009

  The eBay advertisement states that the ornament is of Pujols "fielding" a play at first base. But c'mon, what's it look like he's doingr rP.S. A tip of the toilet seat to First Cuts.... More >>

• Happy "Cloggiest Day of the Year" From Roto-Rooter

  published Nov 27, 2009

  Most American's know the day after Thanksgiving as "Black Friday". But did you know that today is also "The Cloggiest Day of the Year" for the nation's plumbers and sewage techniciansr It's true. Don'... More >>

• Todd Akin's Thanksgiving Letter, a.k.a. More on Pilgrims and Socialism

  published Nov 26, 2009

  Yesterday Daily RFT posted a YouTube clip of U.S. Rep. Todd Akin (R-St. Louis County) explaining to his fellow congressmen the story of Thanksgiving and how the pilgrims defeated socialism. rToda... More >>

• It's 7:30 a.m. Thanksgiving Morning and You're Already Sick of the Family

  published Nov 26, 2009

  If you can at all relate to the above headline, you're in luck. There's one holiday attraction scheduled early this morning. It's the Thanksgiving Day Parade and its starts at the ungodly hour (on a d... More >>

• Remember How the Pilgrims Rejected Socialismr Rep. Todd Akin Sure Does!

  published Nov 25, 2009

  Tomorrow is Thanksgiving. Don't know anything about this holidayr Dont' worry! Congressman Todd Akin (R-St.Louis County) has been studying the origins of Thanksgiving and it's "unbiblical" cousin, soc... More >>

• St. Louis Rams New First Lady: Easy on the Eyes, Just Don't ask Her About Gay Marriage

  published Nov 24, 2009

  The Internets (well, snarky sports blogs anyway) are abuzz today about two factoids: Kyle Boller is now the starting QB for the Rams, taking over for the injured Marc Bulger.Boller's girlfriend, it's ... More >>

• St. Louis International Film Festival Winners 2009

  published Nov 24, 2009

  The Saint Louis Film Festival (SLIFF) is out with its audience and jury award winners for its annual cinema series that wrapped up last weekend. Audience awards went to... Precious for "Best Feature"M... More >>

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  On Day St. Louis Declared Second-Most "Dangerous City", Four Separate Shootings

  published Nov 24, 2009

  Every year it unfolds the same way: CQ Press releases its controversial list of the the nation's most crime-ridden towns, a ranking formerly known as "America's Most Dangerous Cities".St. Louis routin... More >>

• The author of a vigilante website explains why he's not a pussy, and we offer a job to Jerry Berger

  published November 25, 2009

  Pussy Whipped St. Louis Post-Dispatch social media editor Kurt Greenbaum underwent a slow-motion self-immolation, beginning... More >>

• Full of Piss and No Place to Go: A Tea Party Conundrum

  published Nov 24, 2009

  We here at Daily RFT have never come out and called St. Louis Tea Party organizer Bill Hennessy an out-and-out "idiot" (though we have suggested it a few times -- here, here and here).Anyway, no need ... More >>

• Asbestos Cases Once Again Earning Madison County Title of "Judicial Hellhole"

  published Nov 24, 2009

  Earlier this decade Madison County, Illinois, earned the title "Judicial Hellhole" thanks to the outrageous number of asbestos cases filed there. In 2003 alone trial attorneys filed an astounding 953 ... More >>

• St. Louis Moves up Rankings, Now No. 2 "Most Dangerous City"

  published Nov 23, 2009

  St. Louis came close to its 2006 title as the nation's "Most Dangerous City", but alas it was not to be this year. Today CQ Press released its annual crime survey, a report which until recently ranked... More >>

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  Double Agent Dupes Public and Jackassery Reigns at Northeast Fire Protection District

  published Nov 23, 2009

  First of all, kudos to Post-Dispatch reporter Elizabethe Holland. Her repeated, in-depth coverage of the astonishingly corrupt Northeast Ambulance and Fire Protection District is watchdog journalism a... More >>

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  Meet the Person Behind the Website "Kurt Greenbaum is a Pussy"

  published Nov 23, 2009

  Last week Daily RFT contacted the man (or womanr) behind Kurt Greenbaum is a Pussy, a vigilante website about a certain Post-Dispatch editor who may (or may not) share similar qualities with "a vulg... More >>

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  Vigilante Website Out to Destroy Stltoday.com Editor Kurt Greenbaum

  published Nov 20, 2009

  Somehow we knew it would come to this. An anonymous website called "Kurt Greenbaum is a Pussy" (www.kurtgreenbaumisapussy.com) popped up yesterday with a mission -- it seems -- to destroy the career o... More >>