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Can a Segregated City Get Serious About Equity?
The mayor of St. Louis only has weak official powers. Tishaura Jones says she won t let that stop her from reshaping the city.
July 21, 2021 •
David Kidd The concrete slabs and steel frames are just starting to come in, but you can already get a sense of how massive the project will be. The new home for a federal agency, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), is the largest development in the history of St. Louis a million square feet at a cost of $1.7 billion.
Former councilwoman Hazel Erby has died after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. Described by many, including Mayor Tishaura Jones, as a trailblazer, Erby was the first Black woman to serve on the St. Louis County Council and became the chairman in 2009. She served as a mentor to younger generations. She started her service on the council in 2004. After former County Executive Steve Stenger resigned amid a corruption scandal, Erby had hoped to replace him on an interim basis, but then-council-chairman Sam Page slipped into the position during a rapid-fire change in leadership. She and Page remained rivals, even after he hired her as the county s director of the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in 2019. Page later fired her in 2020, a move she was still contesting through the courts at the time of her death.
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The Crestwood Police Department is now accredited following four years of work toward that goal and a final assessment in March. The Crestwood force earned its accreditation through the Missouri Police Chiefs Charitable Foundation. At the videoconferenced Board of Aldermen meeting April 13, representatives from the foundation officially presented the department with its accreditation. “This.
St. Louis County Councilman Tim Fitch is over halfway through his first four-year term representing the 3rd District, and is looking forward to getting the economy back on track after the pandemic while eyeing a second term. Fitch’s 3rd District includes Sunset Hills, Fenton, Kirkwood, Des Peres, Valley Park, Twin Oaks, Manchester, Huntleigh, Frontenac, as.