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Jefferson City

  • Blogs

    May 14, 2012

    Rush Bust Unveiled in MO State Capitol Amid Lies, Secrecy and Bitterness

    Oh, that we were in Jefferson City right now, under the capitol dome, on the House floor where, at this very minute, legislators are proudly unveiling the latest statue to grace the Hall of Famous Missourians: the long-awaited (by somebody, probably) bust of Rush Limbaugh. But wait! It looks as tho ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 1, 2012

    Senator Kevin Engler Introduces Bill About Bedbug Reporting

    ​Citing both an increase in the number of infestation reports in Missouri communities and a special request from state health officials, State Senator Kevin Engler (R-Farmington) introduced legislation yesterday that sets new standards for tenants and landlords when it comes to reporting bedbugs.

  • Blogs

    February 17, 2012

    Man Beat 3-Year Old to Death, Blames it on Hit-and-Run Driver

    ​Out in Morgan County, Missouri, between Jefferson City and Sedalia, police were faced with an easily-solved puzzle. They'd been called to the scene of a hit-and-run driver on Highway 135, where Blake Litton, 3, had allegedly darted into the road and been killed by truck around 5:10 a.m. on Thursd ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 9, 2012

    Jeremy Essig is About to Get Raw & Personal (And Record a CD in Brennan's Basement)

    ​Standup Jeremy Essig put in seven years as a road comic, recorded three CDs and has opened for the likes of Zach Galifianakis and Jeffrey Ross. By  2009, he was sick of it. All of it.  So he enrolled in journalism school at Mizzou. He also landed a political reporting gig in Jefferson C ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 12, 2011

    Marvin Rice: Ex-Sheriff's Deputy Accused of Murderous Rampage

    Marvin Rice: Apparently he didn't get enough of prison in his day job. ​A former sheriff's deputy turned jailer stands accused of killing his ex-wife and her boyfriend over the weekend and then leading police on a high-speed chase that ended in a shootout at a swank hotel Jefferson City hotel. The ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 29, 2011

    Spend a Night in the Jeff City Jail

    image viaYou, too, can spend an exciting night in jail.​If you haven't made any summer vacation plans yet, hoo boy does the Cole County Sheriff's Department have a deal for you! For a mere $30, you can spend the night in the new county jail in Jefferson City and you don't even have to get arre ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 13, 2011

    28 Percent of Missouri Legislators Don't Have College Degrees

    Meanwhile, in Jefferson City...​Aha! Finally, everything coming out of Jefferson City makes sense!Missouri legislators are less educated than their counterparts in other states, according to an analysis out today in the Chronicle of Higher Education. Just 69 percent of Missouri representatives and ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 11, 2011

    Missouri to Drug Test Welfare Recipients

    Give us your tired, your hungry, your poor; we'll drug test them!!​The third time proved to be the charm.After floating bills the previous two years (Exhibit A, Exhibit B) that would allow officials to drug test federal welfare recipients in Missouri, lawmakers in Jefferson City finally got enough ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 15, 2011

    Meet the Lobbyist Responsible for Missouri's Low Cigarette Tax and Open Container Laws

    Peanut-butter sandwich: As distracting to Missouri drivers as an ice-cold beer.​He's the man who famously argued that drinking a beer while driving is no more dangerous than eating a peanut-butter sandwich behind the wheel. And, thanks to him, Missouri remains one of the few states in which you ca ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 12, 2011

    St. Charles County Council Bans New Forms of Synthetic Marijuana and Cocaine

    K3 is one of the synthetic marijuanas that replaced the previously banned K2.​St. Charles County last night became one more region of Missouri that won't wait for Jefferson City to pass a statewide ban on the sale of new forms of synthetic cocaine and marijuana. By a unanimous vote yesterday, coun ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 5, 2011

    More Restrictions on Reproductive Health Move Forward in the House

    Not if the pharmacist doesn't want you to have them.​Today in Jefferson City, Missouri representatives added language to a bill that places more hurdles in front of women seeking legal abortions, in addition to fettering their access to emergency contraception.The bill, HCS HB 28, first came befor ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 1, 2011

    Scares in Jeff City That Aren't About Politics

    Boo!​Something ghostly may be happening in our state capital...and it has nothing to do with the budget.The decommissioned Missouri State Penitentiary in Jefferson City is offering tours of its gruesome cells and and execution chamber. Those seem scary enough, but if that doesn't shiver your timbe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 29, 2011

    Leader of St. Louis Tea Party Defends Recruiting Lobbyist Gary Wiegert

    Bill Hennessy loved his uncle Pat, a union man.​Bill Hennessy, co-founder of the St. Louis Tea Party, is out with an online video defending his decision to ask the former head of the St. Louis police officers' union, Gary Wiegert, to lobby in Jefferson City on behalf of his party. Readers of Daily ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 23, 2011

    Captain America En Route to Missouri Capital

    Image viaThis guy is schlepping through the Show-Me state​So the guy walking from state capital to state capital dressed as Captain America has almost reached Jefferson City. Why, pray tell? To raise awareness that huge numbers of our nation's veterans are homeless.Daily RFT has news for this Alle ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 22, 2011

    Hundreds of Bank Safety Deposit Boxes Go Unclaimed in Missouri

    More than a thousand of these were popped open today in Jefferson City.​Missouri Treasurer Clint Zweifel cracked open 1,200 safety deposit boxes today sent to his office from banks across the state. Among the curios inside the boxes were gold coins, military medals, 19th-century U.S. currency and ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 9, 2011

    Win a Poster of This Week's RFT Feature Story About The Hoodlum Priest

    Win this poster!​This week's Riverfront Times' feature story -- "Forgive Me Father, For I Have Cinama'ed -- tells the story behind the making of The Hoodlum Priest, a 1961 film depicting the life and times of St. Louis clergyman Father Charles Dismas Clark. "Now listen, kid. I ain't no squar ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 24, 2011

    Spotted: LOLs in the Halls of Power

    Oh, those waggish bean-counters in Jefferson City! On a trip to our lovely state capitol yesterday, your correspondent spotted this droll acknowledgment, posted outside the office of budget chair Ryan Silvey (R-Kansas City), that the state ain't got its money right.​

  • Blogs

    February 1, 2011

    Missouri Legislators Are Storm Tough -- Unlike Illinois Pansies

    State Rep. Cynthia Davis (R-O'Fallon) photographed on her way to work this morning.​Say what you will about Missouri legislators, there's one insult you cannot hurl at our state's elected officials. They're not wussies when it comes to the weather. Yes, while their counterparts in Illinois turn an ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 13, 2010

    Urban Hunters Kill 45 Deer in St. Louis County; 91 in St. Charles

    Image ViaDeer hunting in the St. Louis 'burbs isn't confined to Big Buck Hunter.​Missouri's four-day urban deer hunt ended Monday with more than 587 deer harvested in the metro areas of St. Louis, Kansas City, Springfield and Columbia-Jefferson City. Boone County (home to Columbia) led the countie ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 28, 2010

    Wash. U. Study Got It RIGHT: Smoke Eaters Don't Work

    Martin Pion is founder of MO-GASP (Missouri Group Against Smoking Pollution)​Washington University researchers recently released a study of smoking pollution levels in various restaurants and bars in metro St. Louis. Airborne nicotine was used as a measure of secondhand smoke (SHS). Important ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 7, 2010

    Buzzkill: Jefferson City High School to Have Breathalyzers at Prom

    And you thought prom was painful enough when you were drunk? Just try it sober.​Teenagers in Jefferson City who show up buzzed to prom on Saturday won't make it inside the big dance.The school plans to have cops at the door and submit all attendees to a breathalyzer. Those found to have been drink ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 28, 2010

    Dozens of Cats Euthanized After Discovery in Wretched Jefferson City Home

    Crazy Cat Lady as depicted on The Simpsons​The house reeked of cat urine. Nearby neighbors complained that the felines living in the Jefferson City home were so numerous they had to spray them with a hose to get the animals off their backyard patios. And on Monday, the Jefferson City Animal Contro ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 8, 2010

    Effort to Convert Jefferson City Prison to Office, Retail Space Gets Boost from EPA

    Image Via​The Environmental Protection Agency announced yesterday that it is awarding $234,221 in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funding to to conduct a brownfield assessment of the former Missouri State Penitentiary in Jefferson City. The prison closed in 2004 as the oldest continuously ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 16, 2010

    Mayor Francis Slay, Others, Testify to Lawmakers on Local Control of St. Louis Police

    Da' Mare: Francis Slay​Mayor Francis Slay reiterated his case for local control of the St. Louis police department yesterday.Speaking last night to the House Special Committee on Urban Issues in Jefferson City, Slay told lawmakers that the system in place since the Civil War -- in which the gover ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 4, 2010

    Missouri Lawmakers To Meet With Medical Marijuana Patients Next Week

    image via Group wants state senators to support Sour Diesel​Next Wednesday, February 10, members of the group Sensible Missouri -- self-described as "patients having a diagnosis that could be ameliorated through the use of cannabis" -- will travel to Jefferson City and lobby state lead ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 30, 2009

    Old Missouri State Pen Now Proposed Site for Shops, Offices, Prison Museum

    Missouri State Penitentiary Redevelopment Commission​Ah, if only the walls of the old Missouri State Penitentiary in Jefferson City could talk! Well, OK, most of the stories would probably be kind of dull, and the vocabulary might be a little less than savory, but the fact remains: The 177-year-ol ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 16, 2009

    Has Republican State Rep. Mike Cunningham Proposed a Bill to Save Christmas?

    house.mo.gov/gallery/010203-142.jpgThe Missouri House of Representatives in Jefferson City​Missouri formally recognizes only four public holidays. Martin Luther King Day and Columbus Day, you're already familiar with. Jefferson Day (April 13) or Lincoln Day (February 12), perhaps not. And that's i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 20, 2009

    What Is this Emo of Which the Kids Speak? TV News Knows

    The Daily RFT linked a video from last night's KSDK broadcast about the apparently dangers of the "emo lifestyle." The story's tied to the case of Alyssa Bustamante, a 15-year-old from outside of Jefferson City charged with killing her 9-year-old neighbor: Reporter: "For young people, the world 'e ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 12, 2009

    Dive or Not? Arena Bar and Grill Tests the Dive Bomber

    Robin Wheeler​Can a bar be a dive if it has flowers planted in front and offers issues of local foodie magazines? Can a dive bomber be a dive bomber if she goes to a bar and drinks nothing but iced tea?Yes, if I'm having lunch at Arena Bar and Grill. This tavern on the bottom level of a rambling ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 2, 2009

    What Did St. Louis Twitter About Last Night?

    Just some of the hot Twitter action you might have missed last night, Monday June 1:Alyson Carter AKA Shanghai Lily of the Arch Rival Roller Girls.Robin Wheeler Mama likes to knit, listen to loud music, cook, write, cuss & refer to herself in third person.

  • Blogs

    April 14, 2009

    Tours Planned For Old Missouri State Penitentiary. If Only It Still Had World Famous Street Art To Attract Visitors...

    The Columbia Missourian reported over the weekend that several state agencies are pushing to open the doors of the old Missouri State Penitentiary in Jefferson City to tourists.One hundred years before Alcatraz opened, the Missouri State Penitentiary was in operation. When it closed on Sept. 15, 200 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 25, 2009

    Wednesday, March 25: Morning's Newz

    They're back! Representatives with the St. Louis Cardinals and developer Cordish Co. were in Jefferson City yesterday pitching their latest proposal for Ballpark Village to the Missouri Development Finance Board. Last week the team unveiled temporary plans to turn the site into a softball field. But ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 9, 2009

    Taser Use Under Debate Across Missouri

    Wikimedia CommonsA group calling itself the Coalition to Control Tasers is asking the Columbia, Missouri, police department to review its policy on the use of the weapons.According to the Columbia Missourian, the coalition wants the police department to adopt a 52-policy guideline outlining how and ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 5, 2009

    Super Bowl Drunkard Sacks His Daughter

    Offsides. Offspring. 15 to 20 Years.Ever wonder what the football penalty "illegal motion down field" means?  Well, here's one possible definition. In what may be the worst case of mistaken identity ever, a man from Jefferson City has been charged with raping his daughter after drinking too muc ... More >>

  • News

    March 26, 2008

    Hot Contender: If looks count, Sarah Steelman may be your next governor

    Offsides. Offspring. 15 to 20 Years.Ever wonder what the football penalty "illegal motion down field" means?  Well, here's one possible definition. In what may be the worst case of mistaken identity ever, a man from Jefferson City has been charged with raping his daughter after drinking too muc ... More >>

  • News

    August 1, 2007

    Timber!

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

  • News

    July 18, 2007

    Road Warrior

    The ride’s been bumpy, but Pete Rahn has made quite an impression since taking over at the reins at the Missouri Department of Transportation.

  • Dining

    July 11, 2007

    Snapple Nectarine White Tea

    Schnucks, 60 Hampton Village Plaza; 314-353-5060.

  • Dining

    August 31, 2005

    Parlor Game

    The St. Louis Pizza Haus proves that even when pizza's kinda bad, it's still pretty good

  • News

    December 18, 2002

    Rip's Riposte

    Week of December 18, 2002

  • News

    May 15, 2002

    No-Look Legislation

    The good that doesn't get done and the bad that does in Jeff City

  • News

    January 23, 2002

    Solitary Man

    Lifer Bill Herron knew exactly how to get out of jail -- until 16 years ago, when the Missouri Department of Corrections locked him in solitary

  • Best of St. Louis

    September 26, 2001

    Best Local Politician

    George "Buzz" Westfall

  • News

    May 16, 2001

    Base Motives

    Well-heeled cities and developers keep TIF reform at bay

  • News

    February 21, 2001

    Letters

    Week of February 21, 2001

  • News

    October 25, 2000

    Prop B: Voters vs. the Phantoms

    It’s not sweeping campaign reform, but it is a good idea whose time has come.

  • News

    March 29, 2000

    Missing the Big Picture

    Missouri's tax system needs an overhaul, not a holiday

  • News

    March 15, 2000

    Take the Public Out of This Ball Game

    Missouri's tax system needs an overhaul, not a holiday

  • News

    September 15, 1999

    IMAGINE A BETTER NEWSPAPER

    "Imagine St. Louis": Fighting for truth, justice and the American way?

  • News

    December 9, 1998

    City Limits

    A coalition of St. Louis mayors looking to change the city's charter finds the going rough

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