Smith's phone hasn't stopped ringing since I blogged about him last week. Todd Smith, the Suburban Journals scribe who got shot at the infamous Kirkwood City Council meeting of February 7, 2008, and who recently found out that taking a bullet for The Man does not save your hide in a recession, will soon start freelancing for St. Louis' online-only newspaper, the St. Louis Beacon. Of the seven people shot at the Kirkwood meeting, Smith is the only person still alive. The New York Times today ran
Todd Smith was the only person wounded in the Kirkwood shootings to survive. In case you missed Deb Peterson's schmooze on Todd Smith, the former Suburban Journals reporter who was wounded in the Kirkwood City Hall shooting a year before being laid off by the employer he took a bullet for: Smith has been hired by The State Journal-Register in Springfield, Illinois.Smith is now an editor and writer for the newspaper's medical website, BeHealthySpringfield.com. After being shot in the hand by C