The May 19, 1961, ordinance passed by a wide margin with little debate or dissent. The moment offered barely a hint of the long, difficult effort to achieve simple fairness at city lunch counters.
In St. Louis County, the state’s most populous, all but six of 88 municipalities lost population, according to the estimates. So did most of the 46 municipalities in Madison, Monroe and St. Clair counties in the Metro East.
A reconstructed entrance ramp from West Florissant to westbound I-270 opens at 3 p.m., as will a new exit ramp from westbound I-270 to Washington/Elizabeth.
The St. Louis Symphony’s Marie-Hélène Bernard walks us through a renovation that will double the size of the concert hall and create a music center tying the region together.
The lawsuit alleges that Boyd Householder physically and sexually abused the plaintiff when she lived at Circle of Hope Girls Ranch near Humansville in southwest Missouri.
By Judy L. Thomas and Laura Bauer The Kansas City Star (TNS)
New faces swept in to help mop up St. Louis courts on Wednesday, the first day in six years Kim Gardner was not the top prosecutor in the city. But court proceedings remained largely the same.
Budget hearings, which began Monday and will run for several more weeks, mark a rare opportunity to wade through the entire city government, line item by line item.