Jennifer Silverberg
Former Valley Park Mayor Jeffery Whitteaker led the fight to pass the anti-illegal immigrant ordinance in 2006In a ruling that could have national implications, Valley Park's controversial and long-debated ordinance prohibiting city employers from hiring illegal immigrants was unanimously upheld today by a three-judge panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
The decision affirms a lower court ruling in favor of Valley Park, where Hispanics represent barely
The copy editors at the Post-Dispatch must have been sleeping Tuesday night. How else to explain the words "Riverfront Times" sneaking into Wednesday morning's paper?But there it was on page B4 of an article (excerpted below) on Valley Park and a feud between its ex- and current mayor. As you can see, the Post-Dispatch cites RFT writer Kristen Hinman's incredible profile on former Valley Park mayor Jeffery Whitteaker that, yes, probably helped topple his reign. But why -- or how -- the
