Tishaura Jones is sworn in as St. Louis 47th mayor Tuesday.
Near the end of cementing the designation of becoming the first Black woman to serve as the mayor of St. Louis, Tishaura Jones capped off a speech of ambitious plans and transformative hopes fairly simply. My name is Tishaura Oneda Jones,” she told a crowd gathered in the rotunda at City Hall on Tuesday. I use the she/her pronouns. And I am the mayor of the city of St. Louis.
The swearing-in of Jones, a former state lawmaker and treasurer of St. Louis, was not only a milestone for Black women in St. Louis politics, it was a shifting of several decades of political philosophies in the mayor’s office.
Aldermen pass controversial firefighters pension change; spy plane bill dies
St. Louis Post-Dispatch (MO)
Feb. 6 ST. LOUIS
The Board of Aldermen on Friday gave final approval to legislation giving a firefighter-controlled board supervision of all city fire pensions over the objections of two key city financial officials.
Aldermen passed the bill, 19-3, despite warnings from Comptroller
Darlene Green and Budget Director
Paul Payne that the measure reverses some of the reforms passed in 2012 that put a check on the city s pension liabilities.
The issue, backed by the politically influential firefighters union, now goes to Mayor
Lyda Krewson, who has yet to take a position on it.