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Public Arts bill killed in committee
A bill (download here) that would have created in the City of St. Louis a “Public Arts Trust Fund” modeled after those that exist in nearly 300 other cities, including New York, Seattle, Kansas City, MO; Columbia, MO; and in the St. Louis region through Metro’s “percent for the arts” policy died in committee Wednesday.
Aldermen head to KC to save the Earnings tax
A group of St. Louis aldermen are in Kansas City today meeting with their cross-state counterparts to discuss ways to fight the attempt by local millionaire Rex Sinquefield to get Missouri voters to outlaw the earnings tax, which for St. Louis City represents a third of the already cash-strapped city’s budget.
Teabaggers protest Health Care Reform at Presidential Visit
Opponents of President Barack Obama’s efforts to reform the health care system gathered last night outside of the hotel where the President and U.S. Claire McCaskill were rallying hundreds of supporters of the plan.
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