Missouri is joining 39 other states along with the Federal Trade Commission to figure out a way to end the problem of so-called “cramming” on mobile telephone bills. The practice places unauthorized third-party charges on your cell telephone bill.

Kudos to St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay for advocating a ban on soda purchases with food stamps. As a matter of fact, in my opinion, food stamp restrictions should extend beyond soda and include other junk like chips and candy that is utterly worthless.

Many are up in arms following the US Supreme Court’s recent decision in Shelby County v Holder, a decision gutting the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and opening the door to state laws that will further disenfranchise votes. It’s not without irony that the Petitioner in this case is Shelby Country, Alabama, which challenged the restriction placed on it to enact voting laws without prior approval of federal authorities. The so-called “coverage formula,” included in the Voting Rights Act, applied only to certain states, referred to as “covered jurisdictions.”

So, Brian Ireland, managing editor of crime for the St. Louis Evening Whirl celebrates an “all-talk, do nothing” approach to reducing crime over Mayor Slay’s plan of action. In Ireland’s world, politicizing heinous acts to advance one’s political career is better than actually doing something about it. He would also benefit from actually paying attention to what’s going on in the City. Since that seems highly unlikely, I will help him.

There is an ambitious five-year plan to help fuel high-growth start-ups and recently area civic and business leaders came together to announce $100 million in venture capital funding to the St. Louis area, in an effort to enhance the region’s rapidly growing entrepreneurial ecosystem and further support high-growth startups.

The Tampa Bay Times newspaper has done a huge public service for charitable folks all over the country. In recent days, the newspaper has published a series of story about charitable giving that will curl your hair.

Gov. Nixon likes to portray himself as a moderate when it comes to taxes and fiscal policy.

Always in a race to be first St Louis electronic media couldn’t wait to report on the tragic murder/suicide in which 4 people died on Cherokee street last Thursday. The shootings occurred in the business section of Cherokee at A K Home Health Care which is located in the Cherokee Place Business Incubator in the 2700 block of Cherokee.

It was one of the darkest and grief-torn nights in the life of North St. Louis mother, Jeanette Culpepper, who unfortunately would join four other families, 22 years ago on May 31, 1991 where five Black-on-Black murders occurred – in one gloomy pathetic evening.

A judge has declared an outright victory for City of St. Louis taxpayers, allowing the City to terminate its existing retirement plan for firefighters in favor of a less expensive, but still generous, new plan.