Ameren Corporation

Darran Kelley: Fire Chief Adds to List of Indicted Kinloch Officials

Two years after its mayor was sentenced for embezzling funds, the fire chief for Kinloch now faces similar allegations. Darran Kelley, the chief of the Kinloch Fire Protection District, was arrested yesterday and charged with three felony counts of wire fraud, one felony count of federal program t ... More >>

Turkey Day Plan

Ameren Partners with Westinghouse to Build Innovative Small Nuclear Reactors

Ameren Missouri and Westinghouse Electric Company today announced a partnership in order to pursue Department of Energy funds for the development and construction of new types of small nuclear reactors. If Westinghouse wins the DOE investment funds, Missouri will seek from the Nuclear Regulatory Com ... More >>

Thomas Voss: Ameren Exec Gets A Raise After Down Year

​Ameren Chief Executive Thomas Voss received a healthy 15 percent raise in 2011, bumping up his salary to $900,000. That doesn't sound too substantial for the head honcho at a big business, and it isn't. Voss also got more stock, a $1.1 million bonus, a $351,000 increase in his pension fund, and $ ... More >>

Shedding Some Light on Electric Rate Increases

Another rate increase? We should be used to it by now.​Jeffrey Tomich at the Post-Dispatch has an interesting article today on the possibility that AmerenUE and Kansas City Power & Light, the two largest electric utilities in the state, are coordinating their rate requests in order to overwhel ... More >>

The Thanksgiving Tradition

Pam's Chicago Style Dogs & More Still Shuttered [Updated]

Ian Froeb​Gut Check reported two weeks ago that Pam's Chicago Style Dogs & More (6016 Delmar Boulevard; 314-721-7267) was forced to close temporarily after Ameren UE shut off its power due to an unpaid bill.The most recent update from the restaurant itself is this post from its Facebook page o ... More >>

Electric Bill Short-Circuits Pam's Chicago Style Dogs & More

Ian FroebDark days at Pam's Chicago Style Dogs​Pam's Chicago Style Dogs & More (6016 Delmar Boulevard; 314-721-7267) will be closed until at least Wednesday, October 26, after Ameren UE apparently turned off its power due to an unpaid bill."We do apologize, but due to an Ameren UE issue, mostl ... More >>

Dealers and Residents Debate Scrap Metal Bill

The wild wheel-and-deal days of the scrap metal trade may be winding down in St. Louis.​Scrap dealers, police officers, realtors, lawyers, landlords, homeowners and lobbyists packed Thursday's Board of Aldermen Public Safety Committee meeting to debate the merits of a bill to tighten regulations o ... More >>

Ameren Fired Contractor for Flagging Environmental Violations, Lawsuit Says

​A lawsuit filed on behalf of a local plumbing contractor alleges the company lost its contract with utility giant Ameren -- after the contractor informed Ameren management of violations of environmental law and illegal discharge of pollutants.The suit was filed by Bishop & Associates, owned b ... More >>

Express Scripts Tearing Up Fortune 500 List

Express Scripts is St. Louis' largest company -- by far.​The pharmaceutical management company Express Scripts isn't just the largest St. Louis company on this year's Fortune 500 list -- it's actually made the magazine's list of fastest growing companies across the nation.With 81.8 percent revenue ... More >>

Tree Toppers

State Senator Accused of Threatening Missouri Rep. During Lil' Wayne Concert

Todd OwyoungUmm, security? Can you tell those women in the Ameren suite to shut up?​Given his prior gun and drug arrests, one would think that rapper Lil' Wayne would have provided the crowd at Scottrade Center with all the gangsta theatrics they could handle during his jam-packed concert last nig ... More >>

Missouri Top 10 State for CO2 Emissions

Missouri legislators want to overturn a 2008 ballot initiative requiring state utilities to produce 15 percent of their energy from clean sources in 2021.​Missouri's carbon-dioxide output from coal-fired power plants increased last year by nearly nine percent, to more than 83 million tons. The ris ... More >>

UPDATE: Mayor, Rest of City Get Ready for Impending Snowpocalypse

​Egypt is in total chaos right now, you may have heard. The government has been overturned and there's rioting in the streets. But the Egyptians are way luckier than St. Louisans because even though their country is a shambles, it's going to be 70 degrees and sunny in Cairo tomorrow. And what ... More >>

12-Step Plan to Clean Up Lake of the Ozarks Noticeably Void of Alcohol Restraint

The first step is admitting you have a problem.​Attorney General Chris Koster yesterday proposed twelve recommendation for improving the notoriously icky water quality at the Lake of the Ozarks.Here at Riverfront Times we are amazed that none of the twelve steps (described below) have anything to ... More >>

Let's Get Lit: City Offers Free Light Bulbs as Ameren Gets Sued

​This just in from City Hall: On Jan. 17, 6,000 lucky St. Louisans will be the recipients of brand new eco-friendly light bulbs. Mayor Slay is scheduled to appear at a press conference this afternoon to announce a new initiative touting energy consumption, co-sponsored by Ameren Missouri. As ... More >>

How Much Are Lobbyists Spending on Your St. Louis Alderman?

kaciestarrtriplett.comKacie Starr Triplett (Ward 6) leads the Board of Aldermen with $1,327 in lobbyist expenditures this year.​Poor St. Louis Aldermen. Sure, their $32,000 a year salary is nothing to sneeze at and roughly on par with what state reps ($36k) and senators ($31k) earn. But when it co ... More >>

The End of Christmas Creep

Wash. U. Building Among World's Greenest

image viaIt's alive!!! Sorry, it's just a Living Building.​The Living Learning Center at Washington University's Tyson Research Center has just been designated one of the first the first two Living Buildings by the International Living Building Institute (ILBI), the most rigorous green buildi ... More >>

Ameren Installs "Swan Diverters" on Power Lines to Save Migratory Birds

Coutesy Ameren Missouri​A helicopter team is performing aerial daredevil work near Alton this week in an effort to save migrating trumpeter swans, the largest waterfowl in North America.  On Monday specialists with Haverfield Aviation began installing "swan diverters" from power lines running ... More >>

Students Protest Speech by Peabody Energy CEO Greg Boyce at Wash U Research Symposium

Photo by Keegan HamiltonWash U students had a message for Peabody Energy's Greg Boyce at the Symposium for Global Energy Future​Greg Boyce, CEO of Peabody Energy, the world's largest privately held coal company, stepped to a podium Saturday afternoon at Washington University's Symposium on Global ... More >>

A New Arch for a New St. Louis: Let's not just redesign the grounds around the Gateway Arch. Let's go for the whole enchilada!

Missouri's E. coli problems are not confined to the Lake of the Ozarks

Crap: Missouri's Next Sustainable Energy Resource?

Image viaCrap: lawmakers are full of it, utility companies want to make good use of it.​The Missouri Senate moved forward with a bill yesterday that would make the methane gas produced by animal waste a part of the state's renewable energy program for utility companies.The proposed law (SB 848) do ... More >>

Laclede Gas Tied for Worst Place in America to Work if You're Gay, Lesbian or Transgendered

Laclede: It's a gas -- unless you're gay. ​The Laclede Group, whose primary subsidiary is Laclede Gas, has earned the dubious distinction of finishing tied with Exxon Mobil Corp. as the worst place in the nation to work if you're gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgendered. A total o ... More >>

Peabody, Wash U. Lock Horns with Man Behind Clean Coal Consortium Parody Website

http://www.flickr.com/photos/duncharris/ / CC BY-SA 2.0Coal!​The website of the Washington University Consortium for Clean Coal Utilization openly admits to "perpetuating the myth that coal can be used in a clean and sustainable manner," to being a "public relations tool for industry," to advancin ... More >>

What Price Green? A rattled Chesterfield neighborhood says the droning noise of Parkway Central's recycling plant far outweighs environmental benefits

Arts and Education Council Names 2010 Award Honorees

www.cocastl.orgStephanie Riven​The Arts and Education Council yesterday announced the recipients of its annual arts awards. Earning the "Lifetime Achievement Award" is Stephanie Riven, the longtime executive director of COCA (Center of Creative Arts). Last month Riven announced that she'll re ... More >>

May the UrbanFORCE be with you, and hey, still looking for Cardinals home addresses?

Is an Influx of Stimulus Cash Too Much for UrbanFORCE to Handle?

flickr.com/photos/eszter​Thanks to the federal stimulus, Friday, August 7, was payday for hundreds of urban youths. At least, it was supposed to be.The teens had all found work this summer through UrbanFORCE, a program sponsored by the St. Louis Agency for Training and Employment (SLATE) that matc ... More >>

Happy Earth Day

BlockShopper.Com Buckles Under Lawyer's "Trademark" Lawsuit

Blockshopper.com Web siteSlate published an interesting piece yesterday about a legal skirmish between BlockShopper, the real estate gossip site with a big St. Louis presence, and the international corporate law firm, Jones Day, who got its undies in a bunch when BlockShopper reported on the home sa ... More >>

March Pilgrim

How 'bout a pre-breakfast parade?

Last Night: Project: Design! at Contemporary Art Museum

Go! The St. Louis Weekend Calendar, May 23-25, 2008:

Keen on Green

Unreal News Challenge 2007

Week of December 27, 2007

Timber!

Chain saws at the ready, AmerenUE confronts the vestiges of the '06 storms.

Winter Wunderbar

"Damn! Every time a person farts too loud, out goes the lights."

Week of August 24, 2006

The Heat Is On

St. Louis cops are on the prowl for a ring of air-conditioner thieves.

Ozark Orgy

The naked truth about Missouri's backwater Sodom and Gomorrah

The Man Behind the Mask

WWE's Rey Mysterio has game to spare, Harold Ramis helps clear up a misconception, and Bill Haas shows his sensitive side; plus, Unreal lends support to a fellow muckraker injured in the line of duty

Patty Dukes

Unreal steps into the Thickburger fray, gets good gossip at Pujols' fête and seeks dream interpretation -- and hey, keep your dirty pictures away from Ameren UE

Letters

Week of June 20, 2001

Power Play

California's troubles slowed deregulation here, but Ameren is preparing to turn up the juice

Tedious People

The People Project only gets worse

Voodoo Engineering

New plans for a levee in St. Charles County raise concerns about flooding in Illinois and the completion of Missouri's popular Katy Trail

The Merchant of Venice

The McKinley Bridge is broke — structurally and financially — and everyone wants it fixed. Trouble is, Mayor Tyrone Echols of Venice isn't about to give away the city's bridge. But he could be talked into trading it.