Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Since few attend city meetings, let me walk you through a special one.
Chesterfield's City Council had its annual swearing-in ceremony last week, of four incumbents who won their seats back on the April 3 election. No new faces. Few people come to the regular meetings. But before the ceremony, there was the usual pre-meeting, meeting—called the Agenda Meeting in Chesterfield—a work session in other towns. The pre-meeting is open to the public and held in a small, awkward conference room. The table is too big for the room, and chairs face the wrong direction to view Powerpoint screenings. The pre-meetings are often more interesting than anything you'll see in a regular meeting, since councilpersons kick around topics in a slightly more informal setting. But the only interesting comment at this pre-meeting …
Monday, April 16, 2012
See what sales tax we pay here in Chesterfield and what it's supposed to be for.
A nearly secret amendment was added to a Missouri House bill for a sales tax in a southeast Missouri county, for library revenue. But the same measure also increases sales tax in the Great Rivers Greenway District for St. Louis, St. Louis County and St. Charles County. The reported purpose of this sales tax hike is to fund improvements on the grounds of the Jefferson Expansion Memorial, better known as the Gateway Arch—a federal park. The last-minute amendment was placed on the bill by St. Charles Representative Anne Zerr, a Republican, who was a former member of the Great Rivers Greenway District. Holy Catfish! A Republican trying to sneak a new tax onto a bill—do party leaders know about this? Of course City of St. Louis Mayor Francis …
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Some tunes fit better than others, on this holiday.
Love For Sale: The Cole Porter classic is a perfect love song for St. Louis County Executive Charlie Dooley. In November Dooley threatened closing 20 parks and selling off the Elk and other wildlife at Lone Elk Park. I Can See Clearly Now…an excellent song for the folks at Smoke Free St. Louis, sung by Johnny Nash with Bob Marley's band backing him up. It is even a better song for the optometrists that keep campaign contributions flowing to members of the state legislature to ensure that a law stays on the books. And it's a law that is unique to Missouri and requires parents to obtain three eye exams for children between grades kindergarten and fifth grade. Checking Chesterfield’s current senator’s campaign finance records for November and…
Friday, January 20, 2012
The St. Louis Building and Construction Trades Council will honor three St. Louis County businessmen at its 34th annual dinner on Saturday.
Former Chesterfield Mayor John Nations will be honored Saturday by St. Louis' Building and Construction Trades Council. CEO John Eilermann of Chesterfield's McBride & Son Companies, Inc., will be named Management Man of the Year, by the same trades council. A third, Pat Kellett, is to be named Labor Man of the Year. A dinner will be at The Cedars at St. Raymond’s, Jan. 21. Tickets are $100 by calling the Building Trades Council at 314-647-0628. It's the 34th Annual Construction Man of the Year Award dinner, council Executive Secretary-Treasurer Jeff Aboussie reported. The following information was supplied by The St. Louis Labor Tribune. John Nations, Construction Consumer Award Honoree Nations is president and chief executive officer, Bi-…
Henry Glaus
12:26 pm on Thursday, April 19, 2012
the new propose change is remove the earning tax and replace it with sales tax and let the lawmaker increase taxes without voters approval. Missouri voters will vote this because they THINK working people will come out ahead, when only the high income people will be ahead of the game they will pay no earning tax and less sale tax.. then average worker(sale tax will be placed on more items that … more ›