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Richard Callow

  • Blogs

    May 22, 2012

    UPDATE: Giving the Rush Bust All the Honor it Deserves

    UPDATE May 22, 3 p.m.: Our plans have been foiled. ABC News reports that a 24-hour surveillance camera will be placed in front of the Rush bust. It is the only statue in the Hall of Famous Missourians to be so honored. ------- Despite the best efforts of House Democrats, the bust of Rush Limbaugh ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 27, 2011

    Bob Cassilly: City Museum Founder Died the Way He Lived

    Peat WollaegerA portrait of Bob Cassilly by Peat Wollaeger.​Here's one thing anyone who knew Bob Cassilly will agree on: Cassilly, whose body was found yesterday morning in a bulldozer at Cementland, his larger-than-life sculpture museum/creative experiment, died the way he lived, building som ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 9, 2011

    Pro-Earnings Tax Group Spent $15 Per Vote

    Rex Sinquefield forced the earnings tax to vote -- thereby pumping more than $500,000 into the economy of political consultants and campaign strategists. Talk about a stimulus!​It wasn't exactly cheap -- but it was effective.Citizens for a Stronger St. Louis, the group organized by St. Louis Mayor ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 18, 2011

    Citizens For a Stronger St. Louis: Pro-Tax Group Spent $417K

    Rex Sinquefield: Billionaire spent $11 million, apparently to help a few Dems make a quick buck.​Rex Sinquefield may have been hoping to kickstart a discussion about whether the city's earnings tax is a good thing -- a discussion Mayor Francis Slay has indicated he's willing to have. But in the me ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 5, 2011

    Earnings Tax Supporters Positive About Today's Election; Opposition Stays Silent

    These signs abound in St. Louis. Placards for the opposition are non-existant.​Since late February, a team of 30 to 65 canvassers have knocked on nearly every door in St. Louis. All 40,000 homes in the city with at least one voter who has cast a ballot in a recent March or April elections has been ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 19, 2011

    Okay, Who's Spoofing Richard Callow on Twitter?

    One of St. Louis' most politically connected people, whose public relations firm Public Eye has close ties to City Hall and St. Louis County government, has developed an evil online twin of late.  Beginning last week someone has been sending out tweets aping the Twitter account of Richard Callo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 29, 2009

    Does Mayor Slay Have a Ghost Tweeter?

    Do you follow Mayor Francis Slay on Twitter (@mayorslaydotcom)? Ever wonder if he's actually twittering for himself, or if he even knows he has a Twitter account? I always presumed that since the user name was @MayorSlaydotcom and not @MayorSlay or @FrancisSlay it was probably a ghost writer or staf ... More >>

  • News

    July 20, 2005

    Francis the Blogger

    Mayor Slay blasts into cyberspace

  • Music

    July 13, 2005

    Better Than Ezra

    Saturday, July 16; the Pageant (6161 Delmar Boulevard)

  • News

    March 9, 2005

    Slay Bells Ring

    Are you listening? The RFT goes stumping with Francis.

  • News

    December 31, 2003

    Know News?

    The year in review: A quiz (For answers, see last page)

  • News

    November 26, 2003

    Knockin' 'Em Dead

    Here's how the Board of Education could raise money for St. Louis schools: Charge admission to its meetings

  • News

    December 4, 2002

    Slapped Down

    Week of December 4, 2002

  • News

    November 20, 2002

    Wal-Mart World

    Callow's handiwork in Maplewood may spell money trouble for the city

  • News

    October 23, 2002

    Double-Take

    Competing nominations bring high-pressure politics to the Century Building -- again

  • Best of St. Louis

    September 25, 2002

    Best Exposé by a P-D Vet

    Theater Sneaks

  • News

    August 14, 2002

    St. Hatchet

    Callow still feared despite backing another loser

  • News

    July 3, 2002

    Lead Counsel

    These lawyers could cash in big, but who hired them?

  • News

    June 19, 2002

    Terrible Twins

    Nightmare for a rookie mayor -- Schoemehl and Biondi on the prowl with a Big Idea

  • News

    May 29, 2002

    Joyce Abusive

    Nobody's ever voted for Joyce Aboussie, but the congressman, the governor, the mayor and the county executive don't do anything political without her.

  • News

    May 15, 2002

    Smoke and Numbers

    In the Century Building scrap, everybody's deal is shaky, even the mayor's

  • News

    May 1, 2002

    Wild Card

    When it comes to Ballpark Village, the Cardinals may have a joker up their sleeve

  • News

    April 3, 2002

    Bud's Girl

    Week of April 3, 2002

  • News

    March 20, 2002

    Songs of Shame

    Slay and Rigali arias soured by lack of decisive action and bully-boy politics

  • News

    March 20, 2002

    Wrecking Crew

    Slay and his Old Post Office plan allies knock down two rivals with hardball and humiliation

  • News

    March 6, 2002

    Perfect Attendance But No Presence

    Slay shows up for work, but what gets done?

  • News

    January 23, 2002

    Sin City and County

    Young and Nutt: Scandal knows no boundaries

  • News

    October 17, 2001

    Citizen Callow

    The mayor names a PR wiz to a city board and ends up with a PR problem

  • Best of St. Louis

    September 26, 2001

    Best Evidence the New Mayor Knows Carolyn Tuft's Value

    Slay's inaugural speech

  • News

    July 18, 2001

    Letters

    Week of July 18, 2001

  • News

    June 27, 2001

    Jerry's Stringer

    Just how many items in Jerry Berger's column come from PR man Richard Callow?

  • News

    February 28, 2001

    Dead Heat

    Efforts to tie attempted voter fraud to the Bosley campaign haven't stuck

  • News

    February 21, 2001

    Harmon Agonistes

    You don't need a weatherbird to tell which way the wind is blowing

  • News

    June 28, 2000

    Sun Sets on the Boulevard

    The disabled residents of the Boulevard Apartments don't know why they're being asked to move or where they might end up. And HUD and Paraquad aren't saying much.

  • News

    March 29, 2000

    Not Such E-Z Terms for the E-Z Hotel

    The St. Louis Board of Aldermen have passed a bill funding the new convention-center hotel, but many of the lawmakers aren't very happy with their handiwork; plus, other St. Louis follies and foibles

  • News

    February 10, 1999

    The Rainmaker

    Public-relations pro Jeff Rainford helped end a 27-year drought in the St. Louis school- desegregation case, but he's still bothered by the bucket of cold water Mayor Clarence Harmon threw on the victory celebration

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