Subject: William Lacy Clay

• Update: Mow Your Lawn, Mister McKee?

  May 20, 2008

• Paul McKee's Yard-Maintenance Update: Mow Your Own Lawn, Mister!

  May 23, 2008

• Short Cuts

  June 9, 1999

• Survivor, St. Louis-Style

  May 2, 2001

• Alarm Clock

  November 25, 1998

• Forget Dying for the Pro-Life Cause. Let's Send Postcards Instead!

  In November St. Louis' archdiocesan administrator, Bishop Robert Hermann, made headlines when he told church clergy: "I think any bishop here would consider it a privilege to die tomorrow to bring about an end to abortion." The bishop went on: "If we are willing to die tomorrow, then we should be willing to, until the end of our lives, to take all kinds of criticism for opposing this horrible infanticide." Now that's what I call conviction! So what, then, is up with the articl

  January 2, 2009

• The Privileged Class

  January 13, 1999

• The Rainmaker

  February 10, 1999

• News Real

  March 3, 1999

• Short Cuts

  June 23, 1999

• Shaky Grounds: Congress may consider putting the Arch's riverfront park in private hands

  November 19, 2008

• Mow Your Lawn, Mister?: A squadron of youth is set to cut the grass for north-side land magnate Paul McKee. On your dime!

  May 14, 2008

• Hit Parade

  June 2, 1999

• Those People on the Bus

  November 29, 2000

• Inhumane Society

  December 9, 1998

• All Aboard!

  August 30, 2006

• Irons in the Fire

  Critical audits zero in on Vashon's storied basketball program

  November 16, 2005

• L Is for L. Ron

  The state approves a tutoring program linked to Scientology, and everybody cries foul

  October 26, 2005

• Not for Attribution

  A name-calling, race-baiting word war between two anonymous columnists? Unreal demands to mediate! Plus: Russ Carnahan goes to camp, a local blogger talks politics, and we try on a Beer Bra.

  August 10, 2005

• Farr Out Campaign

  A loose-lipped former train conductor is looking to get his long-shot congressional bid on track

  October 27, 2004

• Best Pipe Dream

  Merging St. Louis city and county

  September 29, 2004

• All Aboard!

  We get political with Kerry and Dean, feel the bite of a "Mad Dog" and discover something amazing about Prius ownership. Plus, confidential to Unreal readers: Parking downtown is easy!

  August 11, 2004

• Letters

  Week of April 14, 2004

  April 14, 2004

• Trolley Follies

  In the race to return streetcars to St. Louis, Lacy Clay and Joe Edwards chart two very different courses

  April 7, 2004

• Base Motives

  It's lonely at the top for Talent and Carnahan

  October 9, 2002

• St. Hatchet

  Callow still feared despite backing another loser

  August 14, 2002

• Dixie Chicken

  Racial appeals of last week's primary are reminders of St. Louis' Southern streak

  August 14, 2002

• Joyce Abusive

  May 29, 2002

• Letters

  April 18, 2001

• Letters

  December 13, 2000

• Slimin' the City

  November 15, 2000

• The Redundant-Component Campaign

  August 16, 2000

• A Primary Primer from a Bad Attitude Guy

  August 2, 2000

• Hand-Me-Down District

  July 19, 2000

• Nothing a Few Thousand Sit-ups Wouldn't Cure

  July 12, 2000

• The Albatross

  June 7, 2000

• Money Walks

  March 22, 2000

• Chartering a Course Through Murky Waters

  March 15, 2000

• Night & Day

  June 23, 1999

• Short Cuts

  May 26, 1999

• City Limits

  December 9, 1998

• Congressman Lacy Clay Files for Divorce and a Democratic Loyalist Does What He Can to Help

  lacyclay.orgWilliam Lacy ClayCongressman William Lacy Clay is filing for divorce.The local law journal Missouri Lawyers Weekly first reported the news last week. Gossip columnist Deb Peterson then picked the item up for her stltoday.com blog. Yesterday, Post-Dispatch reporter Jake Wagman went down to the courthouse to view the file where he was stonewalled by the over-reaching court clerk Mariano Favazza. Instead of handing the file over to Wagman -- as is his job -- Favazza instead phoned Clay

  May 5, 2009

• Congressman Clay's Divorce Spilling Into a "He Said, She Said" Affair

  U.S. Rep. William Lacy ClayLacy Clay's divorce filings remains under seal, but that hasn't stopped the congressman and his wife from commenting on the break-up. Yesterday, Ivie Clay, released a statement saying that she was shocked to first find out about her husband's divorce filing last week through the media. "I and my children are devastated and embarrassed that my husband let us find out from the children's friends and the media that he had filed for divorce, and mostly that he still has no

  May 6, 2009

• Who is Ass Clown of the Week, May 1-8?

  Yep. It's that time again. Sharpen your pencils and vote for this week's ass clown. And the nominees...flickr.com/photos/pomo1. Bobbie Brantley -- The 62-year-old St. Louisan had an order of protection filed against her this week from the judge who ruled against her in a criminal case. Upset with Judge David C. Mason's decision, Brantley defiantly told court guards that she planned to blow the judge's "head off his shoulders." 2. Mariano Favazza -- Speaking of courts. How 'bout Mariano Favazza?

  May 8, 2009

• Congressman Lacy Clay: Ass Clown of the Week

  U.S. Rep. William Lacy ClayLacy Clay knows a thing or two about winning elections. The congressman beat out a crowded primary field back in 2000 to take over the seat left vacant from his father and fellow congressman William Clay. Since then, Clay Jr. has gone on to win re-election four times, never earning less than 70 percent of the vote. So, perhaps it was a bit unfair of us to throw him in the ring for last week's Ass Clown award. The odds -- you might say -- were in his favor. 

  May 11, 2009

• Lacy Clay Divorce Could Come Back to Bite

  Beltway gossip site Politico has an amusing story out this week about the possible fallout from St. Louis congressman Lacy Clay's messy divorce from his wife, Ivie. Politico interviews a few attorneys and political strategists who all concur that Clay might want to make amends with Ivie -- and quick. "Generally speaking in life, you don't want to poke a stick in the eye of a hyena," Democratic strategist Chris Lehane tells Politico. "And a corollary of that is that you don't want to poke a stic

  May 15, 2009

• Clay Wins POLITICO's Uncoveted Lead Mouse Award

  It must be said that POLITICO is nowhere near the most cutting-edge and beautiful website on the Internet, even in the political realm. But there are plenty that are uglier, some of which belong to various members of the Congress of our great and glorious nation, which POLITICO has felt moved to honor with its annual Lead Mouse Award.Among this year's congressional standard-bearers for web ugliness is Representative William Lacy Clay of Missouri's First District.

  June 8, 2009

• Lacy Clay Responds to Senate Apology for Slavery

  U.S. Rep. Lacy ClaySt. Louis Congressman Lacy Clay says he accepts a non-binding Senate resolution passed last week apologizing for slavery in the U.S. -- even if the measure isn't perfect.  The resolution "acknowledges the fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality and inhumanity of slavery, and Jim Crow laws," and "apologizes to African-Americans on behalf of the people of the United States for the wrongs committed against them and their ancestors who suffered under slavery and Jim Crow la

  June 22, 2009

• Documentary Looks to Change Life on St. Louis Streets

  www.tvproinc.com/hoodchroniclesLangford Cunningham interviews a woman with HIV in Hood ChroniclesA trailer to the documentary Hood Chronicles begins with these disturbing 2008 crime statistics for St. Louis: 4,345 assaults, 2,634 robberies and 167 homicides. Not mentioned -- but implied -- throughout the rest of the clip is that an overwhelming amount of that violence plagued the city's African-American community. The goal of Hood Chronicles is to change that. "We want to raise awareness on the

  July 21, 2009

• Congressman Clay Asks Department of Justice to Investigate Baggy-Pants-Gate

  Add Missouri Congressman William Lacy Clay to the number of folks outraged that a bar in Chicago refused to allow entry to six African-American students from Washington University. Sounds like a job for Bagg'ns.​Today the the congressman asked the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate the alleged act of racial discrimination. Washington University students are preparing a another ress conference today to discuss the matter further. For those of you who've somehow managed to avoid the barra

  October 28, 2009