Construction has stopped completely on the new 5-story Comfort Suites hotel in Sunset Hills after the Mehlville Fire Protection District issued a stop work order on the project that has been in effect for more than two months.
At press time the stop work order was still in effect at the fenced-in construction site, as confirmed by MFPD Fire Chief Ed Berkel. HR Sheevam, the owner of the Days Inn and the new Comfort Suites under construction at 3660 S. Lindbergh Blvd., submitted a new plan that appeared set in late March to win fire district approval, but had not been approved by press time. A new water pipe has to be finished before construction can resume.
Minneapolis police watch a crowd of protesters, May 27, 2020 / Image: Chad Davis
A century of failed liberal attempts at policing reform in Minneapolis supports the view that none of the city council’s current proposals will prevent there from being another George Floyd.
The trial of Derek Chauvin has concluded with a guilty verdict. But the police killing of Daunte Wright in a Minneapolis suburb only weeks ago drives home that one guilty verdict doesn’t go nearly far enough. Building on the weeks-long protests that galvanized Minneapolis and the country in the summer of 2020, the demand to transform U.S. policing, not just convict so-called “bad apples,” continues to gather momentum.
The Mehlville Fire Protection District moved proactively to get ahead of production delays at car factories, continuing through at least May, in order to replace an administrative vehicle on time and on schedule.
Don Brown Chevrolet, which holds the state contract for the Chevy Tahoes that the fire district typically uses for its administrative vehicles for chiefs, told the fire district in January that GM has suspended the builds of all state contract vehicles due to a global microchip shortage that is affecting all car companies. The shortage was worsened by multiple fires at semiconductor factories, including one in Japan in March. Production at certain plants has been halted for months due to the shortages.
A friendly greeting for a new neighbor always is welcome, and when a couple with young children bought the house next door, Mark Christie was happy to oblige.
âWe move in. We meet. We shake hands and everything,â Todd Burlingame recalled. âAnd he says, âYou know, I want to get off the board of commissioners. So would you be interested?ââ
That was in 2010, and Christie still is an Upper St. Clair commissioner, serving as the boardâs president, in fact.
Burlingame finally has joined him.
On Monday, he was sworn in by District Judge Ronald Arnoni as one of two at-large commissioners. Burlingame fills the seat of Rex Waller, who resigned in March, and will serve through the end of the year.
To the editor:
As a 30-year resident and taxpayer living in the Mehlville Fire Protection District, I write to ask my fellow citizens to vote for the re-election of Bonnie Stegman on April 6 to the Board of Directors of the MFPD.
In the 1990s the former board was a blank check and rubber stamp to the wishes of the firefighters’ union. Since the era of Stegman, Aaron Hilmer and Ed Ryan began, we have seen transparency, fiscal constraint and reduced response times throughout our district not to mention the construction of multiple state-of-the-art firehouses without any tax increases.
By contrast, Bonnie’s opponent signed a consent decree with the Missouri Ethics Commission in October 2019 for violations of Missouri Revised Statutes 105.961.5 pertaining to campaign-finance reporting violations while seeking a seat on the Board of Directors of the MFPD in in 2018.