The Christmas season is prompting some political groups to tap into their inner Scrooge.
Boo Krew, a group of people who gather for the purpose of booing Mayor Francis Slay, are planning to meet at 6:30 p.m. tonight at the Missouri History Museum to, yes, boo Slay at a Civil Rights Summit.
Read more about the Boo Krew's gripes after the jump.
Remember the indignation in 2007 when Mayor Francis Slay demoted the city's first African-American fire chief, Sherman George? The move enraged the city's black majority. Protests followed. Slay was booed from a public speaking event, and more than a few people predicted that the feud would cost Slay the next election.Well, that certainly didn't happen. Yesterday longtime political reporter Jo Mannies came out with an article in the St. Louis Beacon breaking down the racial vote in Tuesday's may
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch and columnist Sylvester Brown have parted ways. We've already reported on all the messy details per Sly Brown and his editors. But what we're really interested in today is the horse race to replace Brown as the paper's next minority columnist. After all, Brown was hired to replace Greg Freeman, a columnist who often served as the minority (and more specifically African-American) voice of the Post-Dispatch prior to his untimely death in 2002. So who are the likely cand
flickr.com/photos/zacheversonWe're not sure if anyone popped open a bottle of bubbly yesterday in Room 200 of City Hall, but we know St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay and his staff had to be pleased. In a follow-up to an item we posted earlier this month, yesterday the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the city of New Haven, Connecticut, discriminated against whites and Hispanic firefighters when the city refused to promote them because no black candidates scored as well as they did on promotional exams.
