St. Louis on Thursday granted the oversight board for its embattled jail a meeting with an inmate for the first time since the board was created two years ago.
Aldermen fell one vote short of the 10 they would need overcome a veto from Mayor Tishaura O. Jones, who says it will eventually bite the city in the budget.
A bill pending before the Board of Aldermen marks firefighters’ latest attempt to claw back some of what they lost after the Great Recession. They have been denied twice in