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		<title>Female Fire Chief Under Fire</title>
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		<title>Slay Silenced, Troubles Grow Uglier</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mayor Francis Slay&#8216;s words were drowned out yesterday by the boos and protests of his opponents. Slay was trying to deliver a speech at the Old Courthouse during a ceremony honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. As soon as the mayor was introduced, protesters began to shout and wave signs. Former fire chief Sherman George, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Boston Herald, AP Report on Slay&#8217;s Fire Dept Race Relations Debacle</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[First the New York Times, now the Associated Press via the Boston Herald. From yesterday&#8217;s Herald: Few brotherhoods are as strong as the one among firefighters, who depend on one another just to stay alive. But powerful racial tensions have divided the St. Louis Fire Department and spilled over recently to City Hall. In October, [...]]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[In today&#8217;s New York Times (hat tip to the Arch City Chronicle for first noting it), former Riverfront Times reporter Malcolm Gay pens an article on the City of St. Louis&#8217; ongoing racial problems following Mayor Francis Slay&#8216;s handling of the promotions controversy in the fire department. In demoting Mr. George, some of those leaders [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Slay&#8217;s Troubles May Cost Region Millions with Convention Loss</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In response to the recent call to boycott the City of St. Louis, the Chairman of the Board and the Executive Director of the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) will arrive in St. Louis tomorrow to meet separately with community leaders and Mayor Francis Slay to determine whether NSBE will cancel its national convention [...]]]></description>
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