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March 2, 2015 -- John Hoffmann's latest combined Town and Country/Chesterfield newsletter is now online for you to download and read. Among the stories in this edition:
ONE OF THE OLDER MEMBERS OF THE GANGS OF TOWN AND COUNTRY PLEADS GUILTY TO FRAUD IN FEDERAL COURT: C. Russell Williams formerly of the Mason Valley subdivision in Town and Country in six years had his brokerage license pulled by the SEC, evicted from his office, had judgments filed against him, had his house foreclosed on and now is convicted of ripping people off with investments schemes. Read the details: Pages 1 & 2
ALDERWOMAN AMY ANDERSON CARRIES A BIG RESIDENTIAL ZONING STAMP, BUT DOESN'T WALK THE WALK, WALK THE TALK OR WALK THE VOTE. Pages 2-4
NEW PLANNING AND ZONING MEMBER BREAKS GENDER BARRIER BUT HAS ISSUES: Pages 4 & 5
NEWEST POLICE BOARD MEMBER IS BEST APPOINTMENT IN MANY YEARS. THERE IS JUST ONE PROBLEM: Enthusiasts of golf carts on subdivision streets should move to somewhere in Florida or Arizona, as there will not be golf carts in T&C anytime soon now that critical care nurse Susan Crandall is on the Police Commission. However, in my eyes there is one drawback with her appointment. Pages 5 & 6
FAST FOOD BECOMES SLOW ... SIGNS, SIGNS, EVERYWHERE THERE ARE SIGNS: McDonald's rebuild timeline is unknown. Meanwhile "Freaky Fast" is not how the construction of the new Jimmy Johns is going. Plus Jimmy Johns' owners are learning something about Town and Country and signs. Pages 6 & 7
THE TEXTING FIRE CHIEF: Page 8
WAS IT A PARTY FOR CITY COMMISSION AND BOARD MEMBERS OR WAS IT MARKETING? Pages 8 & 9
TOWN SQUARE TASK FORCE: Chairman Skip Mange dodged one resident's question while keeping his Task Force in the dark about what he had said at a meeting in January. He also presented ideas that the Task Force was suppose to come up with&hellipand the sub-committee of residents and businesses near the property has not yet been named let alone had a meeting. Apparently they are not going to come up with fresh ideas, just approve Skip's plans. Pages 9 -14
FOOTBALL PRACTICE FIELD APPEARS TO BE MORE THAN A "PRACTICE FIELD"! Pages 14-16
SPORTS AUTHORITY IS TAKING THEIR BALLS AND GOING TO ELLISVILLE: Another Manchester Meadows Shopping Center flies the coup&hellipwhile some new ones are moving in.
FORMER ALDERMAN MOVING OUT OF TOWN: Pages 17 & 18
ANOTHER CHESTERFIELD CITY COUNCIL CANDIDATE DOESN'T LIKE TO VOTE IN CITY ELECTIONS: We went to the Board of Elections and found that of three candidates running for Chesterfield City Council in Ward 1, one of them doesn't vote in city elections. Pages 18 & 19
MAYOR NATION IS LONE SPEAKER FAVORING SALES TAX POOL BILL: He was not the only mayor there. Pages 19-21
RESCUE TRUCK SALE COULD BACKFIRE ON FIREFIGHTERS UNION: Page 21
REVIEW OF ANOTHER FIREFIGHTERS' UNION LAWSUIT AGAINST THE FIRE DISTRICT: Pages 22-24
HOW MY NAME GOT MENTIONED IN THE SCHWEICH SUICIDE: This only goes to show how fast bad information can make the rounds. Page 25
AND THEN THERE WAS THIS: I cannot bring myself to write what a local website is reporting or even copy and post the Schweich story without secondary confirmation, however I have provided a link and you can judge for yourself. Pages 25 & 26
MEDIA WATCH: There was an interesting post on StlToday/Post-Dispatch site, where apparently editors and fact checkers no longer exist. It was by the hip young music critic Kevin Johnson on the death of Clark Terry. Read our response.
We then had links for two of our favorites by Clark Terry or you can click on them and listen now:
WEST MAGAZINE CIVIC SERVICE AWARDS: Maybe a little bit self serving. Pages 27-29
RFT EDITOR CHAD GARRISON GETS WHILE THE GETTING IS GOOD: Pages 29 & 30.
MUSIC: From big band to a jazz trio to Anita getting them dancing to Father O'Malley singing the "Mule Song." Pages 31-33
CARTOONS: It was slim pickings this week. Pages 34-35
February 25, 2015 -- John Hoffmann's latest combined Town and Country/Chesterfield newsletter is now online for you to download and read. Among the stories in this edition:
WELCOME TO THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF TOWN AND COUNTRY: Pages 1 & 2
SHOPLIFTER TURNED ROBBER TURNED KIDNAPPER SENTENCED: The woman who kidnapped a morning a shopper at Chesterfield Mall after assaulting a security officer who was attempting to arrest her for shoplifting pled guilty and was sentenced. Pages 2 & 3
CHESTERFIELD STOCKBROKER INDICTED FOR STEALING FROM PARKWAY CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL BAND BOOSTERS: Page 3
A NEW MEMBER OF THE GANGS OF TOWN AND COUNTRY: It took over 2-years and three months from the time of his fifth DWI arrest, but Gary Dean Siegfried now has a conviction and has joined our Gangs of Town and Country. Pages 3 & 4
T-FED IS INDICTED FOR MARCH DRUG CHARGE: Theodore Federer or T-Fed has not pled guilty to his latest charge and has now been indicted. Page 4 & 5
READ THE AMAZING FALL OF A CHESTERFIELD BUSINESSMAN WHO STOLE A LOT OF MONEY FROM HIS PARTNERS: Pages 5 & 6
NEW HOUSES IN TOWN AND COUNTRY: See the latest! One is being modified, another one has residents in Frontenac upset with and a third one that caused no controversy. Pages 6-8
THE PASSING OF THE PERSON WHO LONG BEFORE JON DALTON CREATED A TOWN AND COUNTRY GATHERING PLACE: Pages 8-10
CHESTERFIELD COUNCIL VOTES TO OVERRIDE ALL FOUR MAYORAL VETOES OF 2015 BUDGET: One veto was almost upheld, but by the end of the evening all four where struck down. Pages 10-14
CITY COUNCIL'S PLANNING AND PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE VOTES TO HAVE STAFF PREPARE A STUDY ON CLOSING RIVER VALLEY DRIVE. See the landscape and read the likely daily vehicle traffic increase if a Maryland Heights project is green lighted. Pages 14-19
WE BEGIN TO LOOK AT MONARCH FIRE DISTRICT LAWSUITS: The attorney for firefighters union Local 2665 has filed a number of lawsuits recently. We have obtained copies of a number of these lawsuits and have started reviewing them. Pages 19-23
MEDIA WATCH: GO MAGAZINE'S BEST OF BALLOT: When this was first posted by the Post-Dispatch the ballot was a little thin. Clearly it looked to be a big phony-baloney social media event. However, after readers began writing in obvious choices left on the first ballot, they were added. Read our take on this. Hopefully some of the "older readers" of the Post-Dispatch that the paper is trying to replace with hipper younger folks will figure out how to log on to the ballot and vote. Pages 24-26
RESTAURANT REVIEW: We do dinner and lunch at Massa's newest restaurant in Town and Country. Pages 26-30
BIG BAND THIS WEDNESDAY; GET OUT OF THE WINTER BLUES. Page 31
CARTOONS: Pages 31-34
February 18, 2015 -- John Hoffmann's latest combined Town and Country/Chesterfield newsletter is now online for you to download and read. Among the stories in this edition:
NEW SUPERMARKET PLANNED FOR MANCHESTER MEADOWS: Plans have been submitted for a Fresh Thyme Supermarket in the vacant PetsMart building in the Manchester Meadows Shopping Center. The store will compete primarily with Whole Foods. Page 1
POLICE SHOOTING IN WASHINGTON STATE CRASHES CITY'S NEW WEBSITE: For some time city hall staff have been talking about how much better the city's website would be on a new server run by a new vender. I don't think they were anticipating this happening. Page 2
JANUARY POLICE ACTIVITY AND DEER ACCIDENT LOCATIONS: Page 3
COFFEE WITH THE MAYOR EMAIL SENDS MIXED MESSAGES: Mayor/Cigarette Lobbyist Jon Dalton plans to hold a coffee clutch from 7:30 to 8:30 in the morning at the Longview Farm House. The emails sent out according to some have sent some mixed messages. Pages 3 & 4
APPARENTLY" NO" DOESN'T MEAN "NO" TO A CERTAIN ALDERMAN: A neighborhood newsletter indicated the golf carts on subdivision streets issue, voted down by the Police Commission might not be a done deal. When we inquired a finger was pointed at a certain alderman. Also we have a solution to the issue of golf carts on subdivision streets. Pages 4 & 5
DID PUBLIC OPPOSITION TO A SIGN RESULT IN A CHANGE OR WAS IT JUST PART OF THE PLAN? Pages 6 & 7
SIX NO SHOWS CANCEL PLANNING AND ZONING MEETING: Read how often Mayor Dalton doesn't bother to show up. Pages 7 & 8
CHANGE OF PACE IN PARK SIDEWALK ART: Take a look. Pages 8 & 9
STORY ABOUT TOWN AND COUNTRY DOCTOR WINS AN AWARD: Page 10
CHESTERFIELD PLANNING COMMITTEE TAKES A SWIPE AT LOWES: If you are into zoning and land use issues and are interested in what is happening at the Chesterfield Commons Shopping Center, this article is for you. If those items bore you to tears, please skip down to a different article. Pages 11-15
COPS AND DONUTS REMAIN ON COUNCILMAN'S RADAR ... EXCEPT THERE IS A PROBLEM ... WHERE ARE THE DONUTS? Yes it appears as if Councilman Dan Hurt is obsessed with going on the attack about local police officers and donuts however there is one problem with his logic. Pages 15 & 16
DOES FIRE REPORT MEAN THAT LARRY RICE CAN'T BE FAR BEHIND? We look for the hidden meaning behind a recent fire report: Page 16-17
RETRO, A HIGH END DRESS SHOP COMING: It is nice to see something from the past coming back. An expensive dress shop maybe opening in Chesterfield Valley soon. Dresses! Who knew those were still in big demand? Page 19
EX-CON PLEADS GUILTY TO BURGLARY AND 10 DAYS LATER HE IS AT IT AGAIN IN LADUE AND CHESTERFIELD: His cell phone helped the police put him at crime scenes. Pages 20 & 21
ELLISVILLE MAYOR HAS A VERY LAST MINUTE OPPONENT WITH AN INTERESTING RECORD IN COURT: The last of the the people who tried to use a phony impeachment process to get rid of the reform mayor, Adam Paul, will be gone in April. See how the Ellisville elections look. Pages 21-23
OUR DISAGREEMENT WITH A POST-DISPATCH EDITORIAL: Pages 23 & 24
MUSIC: We had three straight nights of music events last week and have photos from the first two. Pages 25-28
CARTOONS: Gone, but hardly forgotten&hellipBrian Williams for at least this week is highly remembered by cartoonists. Pages 28 -36
February 9, 2015 -- John Hoffmann's latest combined Town and Country/Chesterfield newsletter is now online for you to download and read. Among the stories in this edition:
START WITH THE END: This week perhaps the most popular portion of our newsletter will be the NINE pages of editorial cartoons about Brian Williams: Pages 30-38
TOWN AND COUNTRY'S DOG AND PONY MAY MISS THE 65th BIRTHDAY PARTY: Pages 1 & 2
TOWN SQUARE TASK FORCE'S FIRST MEETING: Pages 2-8
MAYOR'S INSTRUCTIONS: Read between the lines of Jon Dalton's remarks to the task force and start adding up the money. Page 2
IF YOU HAVE TO DENY THERE'S A CONFLICT OF INTEREST, THERE PROBABLY IS: Pages 2-4
CHAIRPERSONS IN ANOTHER TIME ZONE: We learned that two chairpersons were unaware of a business downturn for a local grocery store, the lack of the city's ability to maintain park property and what the current definition of "demographics" is. Pages 4-6
MAYBE SOME LAND FOR SALE: There is a back story/rumor making its rounds about more land for sale. Pages 7-8
DALTON TWO-STEP: Mayor/Cigarette Lobbyist Jon Dalton does the famous Dalton-Two Step and refuses to say who is behind a group claiming to be a corporation that is not registered as a corporation which he is shilling for. Pages 8-10
CHESTERFIELD JUDGE AND PROSECUTOR FORGOT TO TAKE AN OATH BEFORE TELLING COUNCIL MEMBERS WHAT A GREAT JOB THEY ARE DOING: The half lies kept falling on my head and just like the guy whose feet are too big for his bed, nothing seemed to fit, those half lies are falling on my head, they keep falling ... I felt like breaking out in song while listening to the Chesterfield prosecutor and judge. Read why! Pages 10-15
LULU, CHER, MADONNA AND NOW AYLA: Pages 15-17
CHESTERFIELD 2014 CITY COUNCIL CANDIDATE FINED BY ETHICS COMMISSION: Pages 17 & 18
FOLLOW THE MONEY: See what local state rep was the biggest pig of them all. Page 18
A CHRISTMAS STORY: Read about cops doing non-police things. First one I did in Maryland and then one more current about what two local area cops did on Christmas Eve. Pages 19 & 20
MEDIA WATCH ... GOOD SPORT AWARD: TV anchor people, normally being Type-A personalities and thin skinned don't take well to criticism. We found an exception. Read the emails: Pages 20 & 21
RESTAURANT REVIEW: One-19 North in Kirkwood. There are only three items I like on their menu, so I am depending on others' opinions. Pages 21-26
MUSIC: Well known area musician silenced due to poor health. We made three stops this week. See who was playing. Pages 26-28
CARTOONS: Brian Williams poses for editorial cartoonists, plus my favorite student Skyler, gives another excellent answer on an exam. Pages 28-40
February 4, 2015 -- John Hoffmann's latest combined Town and Country/Chesterfield newsletter is now online for you to download and read. Among the stories in this edition:
U.S. ATTORNEY WANTS MAXIMUM AGAINST TOWN AND COUNTRY EX-CON SWINDLER: Pages 1-5
PROSECUTORS FINALLY CHARGE PRINCIPIA FOOTBALL PLAYERS FOR SUMMER CAMP HAZING ... WHICH TURNED OUT TO BE FELONY SODOMY: Read the details. Pages 5-7
YEAR END POLICE ACTIVITY TOTALS: The final numbers are in for 2014. Page 7
TOWN AND COUNTRY WARD 3 ELECTION: Last week we reported how there are now only two candidates in the Ward 3 race. This week we profile challenger Mary Steward. Pages 8 & 9
ROAD PROJECT UPDATES: Grant applications for Topping Road improvements including pedestrian improvements (sidewalks) and for engineering studies on Mason Road for sidewalks. Also we look at current road construction at Mason Road and I-64. Pages 11 & 12
PARKING TICKET SCAM: Page 12
CHESTERFIELD CITY COUNCIL FAILS TO FIRE TORPEDOES AT MAYOR'S VETOES AGAIN: Pages 13 & 14
PARKWAY WEST MIDDLE SCHOOL TEACHER PLED GUILTY FOR PARTY WITH UNDERAGE DRINKING: Although he paid a smaller fine than the 20-year-olds caught drinking. Pages 14 & 15
MONARCH NEWS: Candidate update ... donations ... and more. Pages 15-17
SLICE OF LIFE 1: The trouble in paying your taxes. Pages 17 & 18
SLICE OF LIFE 2: The trials and tribulations of getting the tile floor cleaned and sealed. Pages 18-20
RESTAURANT REVIEW: This week we go to Maine for some lobster ... not really but we did go to Red Lobster. Pages 20-24
MUSIC: Preview of the Return of the February Rat Pack Bash&hellipCome on out on Monday February 9 for some fun. Pages 25 & 26
CARTOONS: Pages 26-32
January 27, 2015 -- John Hoffmann's latest combined Town and Country/Chesterfield newsletter is now online for you to download and read. Among the stories in this edition:
28 COPS RESPOND TO TOWN AND COUNTRY RIOT INVOLVING 15 AND 16 YEAR OLDS: What was the staff at CBC High School thinking holding a mixer dance for 1,700 freshman and sophomore kids from various high schools? Read more details: Pages 1 & 2.
THORNHILL NEIGHBORHOOD FIGHT OVER GOLF CARTS LEADS POLICE COMMISSION TO VOTE AGAINST ANY PROPOSED GOLF CART ORDINANCE ANYWHERE IN THE CITY: This is a neighborhood fight...with a member of the board of trustees lying to the police commission about community support and then trying to create the numbers to prove his position. This is a detailed report with all the dirt and many of the emails back and forth...If you don't want to read about sniping between neighbors go to the next topic. Pages 2-10
29-YEAR-OLD TOWN AND COUNTRY HOUSE KEEPER ARRESTED FOR THEFT OF JEWELRY: We have her photo. Take a look and make sure she has not been working for you or in your neighborhood. She has a criminal record from Chesterfield to Town & Country to Glendale. Page 10 & 11
TOWN AND COUNTRY DEER KILL AND CENSUS REPORT IS IN: Read where the deer were killed in the first two weeks of 2015 and what the spotlight census report says: Pages 11-19
TOWN AND COUNTRY DOCTOR AWASH IN MONEY PROBLEMS: However he has one of the bigger houses in town. Pages 19 & 20
SECOND CAR STOLEN BY MIDNIGHT HOUSE BURGLARS IS RECOVERED: Page 20
WARD 3 RACE DOWN TO TWO CANDIDATES: Page 20
CHESTERFIELD WARD 1 RACE IS UP TO THREE CANDIDATES: A well known incumbent, a man who needs somewhere to wear his new ties and a man going for the Cleveland Brown fan vote or the Black Exploitation Film vote. Pages 20-23
CITY BUSINESS OR FOOTBALL: Each councilperson was given a computer tablet to allegedly reduce paper and staff's time preparing with city business being downloaded on the tablets. I have seen non city related websites on these tablets in the past and last Wednesday I got a clear photo. Page 24
THE INVISIBLE MAN VOTE: Page 25
A SECOND NO-GO FOR VOTE ON VETOES: Page 25
RESTAURANT REVIEW: It was opening day for a former baseball player's newest restaurant. Pages 26-30
ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST: A familiar eatery locks the door. Page 30
MUSIC: Page 31
CARTOONS: Pages 31-35
January 20, 2015 -- John Hoffmann's latest combined Town and Country/Chesterfield newsletter is now online for you to download and read. Among the stories in this edition:
GUILTY PLEA IN ATTACK ON POPULAR WAITRESS: The attacker who slashed open a popular waitress' face got a 5-year probation term. The former waitress has a lifetime of scars. Pages 1 and 2
TWO ALDERPERSONS ATTEND SUBDIVISION MEETING AND SUGGEST A POSSIBLE NEW PURCHASE OF LAND BEFORE THE NEW TOWN SQUARE TASK FORCE HAS HAD ITS FIRST MEETING: We list five reasons why what was said at this meeting is ethically and financially challenged. Pages 2-4
OH DEER: The Lethal Deer management is Over...Deer Whackos on the Air...Deer Accident Totals for 2014...An Irate Email Over Deer claiming to be someone they apparently are not. Pages 4-7
TOWN AND COUNTRY DOCTOR ADMITS TO STEALING $1 MILLION FROM YOU AND ME: Page 8
BOARD OF ALDERMEN RETURN ONE PAID HOLIDAY AND ADD ANOTHER: Read what the Aldermen have to do to make sure proper balance the city holiday calendar. Page 8 & 9
WATCH THE GROWING 2015 CITY DEFICIT: Page 9
IT WAS A LONG FIVE OR SIX DAYS AT MASON ROAD AND CLAYTON ROAD: Page 10
GUESS WHERE ONE OF THE TWO CARS STOLEN IN A MIDNIGHT HOUSE BURGLARY OFF MASON ROAD WAS RECOVERED? Pages 10 & 11
AND NOW FOR THE REST OF THE STORY: The Manchester Road shopping area in Des Peres is frequented by a lot of Town and Country residents who live on the east side and south side of the city. So I try and pay attention to what is going on along that road. The shoplifting and police involved shooting of the driver of the getaway car driving down the sidewalk on Manchester Road to avoid a police roadblock got me doing some research of the backgrounds of the two suspects. See what we found. Pages 11-14
APPARENTLY SUPPORT FOR GOLF CARTS IN THORNHILL SUBDIVISION WAS ALL SMOKE AND MIRRORS: The weekend before a special meeting of the Town and Country Police Commission, where lame duck alderman Tim Welby and HOA Board of Trustees president put a request to use golf carts on the streets, wide spread opposition has popped up. Read about the petitions and email drives. Pages 14-16
CARDINAL MANAGER HAS PAID COURT JUDGMENTS IN FAILED CHESTERFIELD DEVELOPMENT: His partners still owe $11-million. Read how he downsized. Also his Wildwood home is back on the market. Pages 17-20
SHOWDOWN OVER MAYOR'S BUDGET VETOES APPEARS TO BE DELAYED AGAIN: Page 21 & 22
SECOND NAME ON BALLOT IN MONARCH FIRE DISTRICT RACE: A pro-union candidate who is new resident to the fire district is now on the ballot to challenge the pro-taxpayer incumbent. Page 22
MEDIA WATCH: Two newspaper reports have AGAIN moved a Town and Country felon into Chesterfield...Chesterfield routinely get stuck owning Town and Country criminals because reporters don't want to check out addresses and simply go by a zip code. Also last week Robin Smith did some time traveling and went back 25 years. Pages 22 & 23
RESTAURANT REVIEW: The Brick Tops...Don't let its location scare you or your credit card...it is worth a trip at least for lunch. Pages 23-27
CARTOONS: Pages 28-33
January 14, 2015 -- John Hoffmann's latest combined Town and Country/Chesterfield newsletter is now online for you to download and read. Among the stories in this edition:
JOHN MINEO'S GETS SUED FOR NOT PAYING BILL: Read the details and part of the lawsuit. Also read how this is not the first time. Pages 1 & 2
DRUNK MIDNIGHT HOUSEBREAKER PLEAS GUILTY: Read the details how a drunk vacation time share salesman from Springfield, MO was arrested breaking into houses at 2 in the morning along Ballas Road thinking he was home. Pages 3-6
A MOVE FOR QUIET ON I-64: An attempt is proceeding from the police commission to try and quiet down trucks on I-64. Pages 6 & 7
DEER WHACKOS LIGHT CANDLES FOR DEER, NOT PEOPLE OR THE LITTLE CREATURES THAT TOO MANY DEER HAVE HELPED KILL OFF: Pages 7 & 8
DEER HARVEST FOR 2015 IS OVER: Read how many deer were killed. Pages 8 & 9
THE TOWN SQUARE TASK FORCE IS ANNOUNCED: Read who Mayor/Cigarette Lobbyist Jon Dalton has appointed to the task force to figure out what to do with the 8.8 acres the prior owner could not sell other than to the city. Pages 9 & 10
NEW HOUSES ON THE WAY: See where and what is going up on residential lots. Pages 10-14
MAGAZINE DOES REVIEW THAT WAS PAID FOR BY RESTAURANT: See what we don't think is a good idea when it comes to journalism. Pages 14 & 15
THIRD PERSON ENTERS WARD 3 RACE: See who joined the race. Does she want to win or split the vote? Page 15 & 16
PARENTS WHO THINK MOVING A KID SHOW AT MASON RIDGE TO THE HUGE PROFESSIONAL STAGE AT THE PURSER CENTER NEED TO WATCH THIS MOVIE: Read what movie. You can down load it and get a taste of reality. Pages 16-18
ATTORNEY GENERAL CLOSES OPEN MEETING COMPLAINT AGAINST CHESTERFIELD: Read the one admission the city made. Pages 18 & 19
POLICE HONOR NOSEY CITIZEN WHO POSSIBLY SAVED LIVES: Read more and see the citizen...Pages 19 & 20
CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS AND ENDORSEMENTS IN FIRE DISTRICT RACE ARE SENDING A CLEAR MESSAGE. Pages 20-24
YOUNG WOMEN OF VERY RICH WEST COUNTY PARENTS CONTINUE TO BE DISCRIMINATED AGAINST UNLESS THEY HAVE THE RIGHT ZIP CODE: Read the latest from the Court of Love and Beauty and some might say the phony baloney rich. Page 23
WE SAY GOODBYE TO A REGULAR NEWSLETTER READER AND AN ANITA FAN: Pages 23 & 24
AN UNANSWERED NEW YEAR'S WISH: One man's art is a realtor's nightmare. Pages 24-26
RESTAURANT REVIEW: Our last restaurant review for 2014 with former patch.com editor Jean Whitney was her choice, before she headed to her new house in Arizona. Turns out nobody of our party of three will be going back to Rich and Charlie's anytime soon. Pages 26-29
MUSIC: After a two month absence Anita Rosamond returned to Smitty's on January 24. Plus, we look at other joints and music events from the last week. Pages 29-31
CARTOONS: Pages 32-40
January 7, 2015 -- John Hoffmann's latest combined Town and Country/Chesterfield newsletter is now online for you to download and read. Among the stories in this edition:
OVERNIGHT HOUSE BURGLARY OFF OF MASON ROAD: Page 1
LETHAL DEER MANAGEMENT HAS BEGUN: Read how many deer were killed in the first four days. Page 2
CANDIDATES FILE FOR APRIL ELECTION: So far there are only two contested races in Town and Country. In Chesterfield where last year saw a contested race in every ward, there is only one candidate for each ward so far. Pages 2-6
MARYVILLE UNIVERSITY SCALES BACK PLANS FOR CONWAY ROAD. Is it about good intentions and goodwill toward the neighbors or is it about CA$H. Pages 6 & 7
BIG SHOWDOWN BETWEEN CITY COUNCIL AND MAYOR DOES NOT GO OFF: The Boy Councilman, Derek Grier was missing. Read what happened next. Pages 7-9
YIKES...WHEN THIS CHESTERFIELD STOCKBROKER DECIDES TO STEAL FROM HIGH SCHOOL KIDS HE DOESN'T MESS AROUND. Pages 9
FIRE CHIEF HIRED AND BATTALION CHIEF FIRED. Read the latest personal moves at the Monarch Fire Prevention District. Page 10
2014 YEAR IN REVIEW: We not only review 2014 news in Town and County and Chesterfield but also have some new Chesterfield News in the June portion of the review. Pages 11-23
MEDIA WATCH: Once again Bill Beggs, Jr. could not be more wrong. Page 23
RESTAURANT REVIEW: This week we report on a couple stops for lunch at Charlotte's Rib, plus have some fun finding some old photos from the Charlotte Peters' Show on KSD. Pages 23-28
CHRISTMAS SHOWS FROM MUSIC TO TRAINS: Pages 28-31
CARTOONS: After two weeks with no cartoons while we posted the Drunks and Thieves newsletters...the cartoons return. Pages 31-38
December 29, 2014 -- It is time again for a random review of court cases from arrests by the Town and Country and Chesterfield Police. Here is Part 2.
TOWN AND COUNTRY PROSECUTOR AND JUDGE SURGICALLY REMOVE DWI FROM PEDIATRIC DOCTOR'S RECORD: He was drunk, he refused to take a breath test, he was on video. However the T&C prosecutor removed the DWI charge completely. Pages 1 & 2
RED LIGHT RUNNER SO DRUNK HE CAN'T COUNT...LEAVES COURT WITH NO POINTS ON HIS RECORD AND NO FINE: He was so drunk that he could not count, he refused to take a breath test and left court with no points on his driving record. Pages 2-4
IMPAIRED WOMAN DRIVER REPEATS HER USUAL DRILL...REFUSES TO PULL OVER FOR POLICE UNTIL SHE HAS THROWN MARIJUANA OUT THE WINDOW: This is not the first time she has pulled this. However it is the first time in three years of reviewing these cases where someone was convicted of "Littering" who actually littered. Pages 4-6
THIRD TIME DWI PLED GUILTY IN MUNICIPAL COURT WITH NO REDUCTIONS: A former St. Louisan now living in Atlanta with two prior DWIs, pled guilty and is convicted of what he was charged with and fined. This might be a first. Pages 6 & 7
WOMAN DRIVES ONTO SHOULDER...CLAIMS TO HAVE HAD NOTHING TO DRINK BUT BREATH TEST SAYS OTHERWISE: Here is another case of a person charged with DWI leaving court with no points on her driving record. Pages 8 & 9
MARIJUANA USER ACTUALLY LEAVES COURT WITH 2-POINTS ON DRIVING RECORD: He was wasted and almost crashed twice. He admitted having just smoked marijuana and later denied it. However he pled guilty to DUID and Improper Lane Use. The DUID charges was turned into a "no-record" probation term, but he actually got two points from the Improper Lane Use citation. However his past record questions if he should have been given any deal at all. Pages 9-11
TOWN AND COUNTRY PROSECUTOR REDUCES DWI TO ILLEGAL PARKING...WE LOOK AT THE VIDEO AND FIND DRIVER WAS CLEARLY DRUNK: A 19-year-old female driver from Webster Groves had her DWI charge reduced to "Illegal Parking" by Town and Country Prosecutor Brian Malone and fined $500. Pages 11-14
SHOPLIFTER BREAKS CARDINAL RULE...DRESS INCONSPICUOUSLY WHEN SHOPLIFTING AT THE MALL: Page 14
MINOR TRAFFIC STOP LEADS TO MAJOR SHOPLIFTING ARREST: Chesterfield city prosecutor Tim Engelmeyer continues in a quest to convict as many people of "Littering" as is possible. Pages 15 & 16
DRUNK WOMAN HITS MISSOURI RIVER BRIDGE. CLOSES TWO LANES OF TRAFFIC BUT LATER DENIES BEING IN AN ACCIDENT: Woman appears before Judge "Let'em Loose" Brunk and received a "no-record' probation and leaves court with no points on her driving record. Pages 16-18
MIDNIGHT BUILDING CHECK GETS FOUR OFFICERS ASSAULTED BY OUT OF CONTROL WOMAN: A wild night ... as impaired woman assaults officers from two departments. Pages 18-25
THE PROBLEM AND SOLUTION: Pages 25 & 26
BONUS FEATURE: For those of you who read these special reports but not our weekly newsletter we have reposted the Scott Rosenblum DWI and head-on crash in his $177,000 Bentley. Plus how Tim Engelmeyer was named "special prosecutor" and then didn't prosecutor anyone, but simply dropped charges. We have police report quotes and accident scene photos. Pages 26-35
December 22, 2014 -- It is time again for a random review of court cases from arrests by the Town and Country and Chesterfield Police. Contrary to comments from local elected officials, our continual random review of these arrests show two things.
The police are doing a pretty good job in protecting us. The local judges and prosecutors are doing a terrible job. I don't promote that people should go to jail for DWI or thefts. But DWI suspects should not leave courtrooms with no points on their driving records thanks to deals and cases being reduced to $500 Illegal Parking violations.
The local courts are costing safe drivers' big money. Instead of making drunk drivers, reckless drivers and speeders who do 30 and 40 mph over the limit obtain penalty points, they give them none. This forces us good drivers in underwriting the insurance of dangerous drivers. The dangerous drivers' rates should go up and mine should go down, but most municipal prosecutors and judges are making sure that doesn't happen.
In Part One, we look at 11 cases and see if anyone actually got a permanent conviction record for DWI with points assessed.
The one thing we once again find is that Chesterfield's prosecutor, Tim Engelmeyer (upper right) and Judge Rick Brunk (upper left) are doing a non-existent job of looking after welfare of the public and are doing aterrible disservice to the insurance industry. Joining them are Town and Country prosecutor Brian Malone (left) and St. Louis County Associate Circuit Judge Dennis Smith (right), who gets most of the "jury demand" cases who allows the ridiculous deals proposed by Engelmeyer and Malone.
CHESTERFIELD MAN'S THIRD DWI ARREST IS REDUCED TO A MISDEMEANOR Three DWI arrests are supposed to be a felony but County Prosecutor Bob McCulloch's office and Judge Dennis Smith didn't let that happen. Page 3
DRUNK DRIVER WITH SMALL CHILDREN IN CAR HAS ACCIDENT...LEAVES COURT WITH NO POINTS BUT FINED FOR ILLEGAL PARKING. He lied to the police, claimed his small children magically appeared in his vehicle after the accident, but he doesn't know how they got there. Despite the police parking his vehicle on a parking lot, Tim Engelmeyer allowed him to plead guilty to "Illegal Parking" and Judge Dennis Smith approved the deal. His DWI resulted in a "no-record" probation term. He left court with no points on his driving record and no increase in insurance. Pages 4-6
PAIR OF SHOPLIFTERS BUNGLE JOB...COPS BUNGLE BOOKING: The Chesterfield cops released one suspect at the scene on a summons. Turns out he was a felon having been convicted of Distributing Drugs and sentenced to 10-years in jail, but then placed on probation. His prints and a new photo might have come in handy as he was arrested by the County Police for Burglary seven months later. Pages 6-8
HERE IS THE ONE CASE WE REVIEWED WHERE THE DRIVER WAS CONVICTED OF DWI, JUST LIKE HE WAS CHARGED: It was a Town and Country arrest involving a person with a prior DWI. The driver was from Nevada. The Town and Country PA dropped the two companion moving violations. County judge, Dennis Smith actually then accepted his plea of Guilty without a deal for a "no-record" probation term. Pages 8 & 9
23-YEAR-OLD HAVING PROBLEMS COUNTING AND RECITING THE ALPHABET ARRESTED FOR DWI DRIVING AN OLD PERSON'S CAR Of course almost crashing into a highway overpass railing was the first clue he might be a screwed up. This is another case where a drunk driver with a past drug related license suspension left the courthouse with no points on his driving records courtesy of Town and Country prosecutor Brian Malone. Pages 9-11
24-YEAR-OLD CHESTERFIELD WOMAN TWICE THE LEGAL LIMITS LEAVES COURT WITH NO POINTS Judge Brunk and PA Engelmeyer teamed up on this one and gave us another illegal parking violator with a $554 cash fine despite the police report saying how the car was "legally parked." Pages 11-13
PRIOR DRUNK DRIVER PICKS UP THIRD DWI...CHESTERFIELD PROSECUTOR/CREVE COEUR JUDGE DEFENDS HIM...GETS COUNTY PROSECUTOR AND JUDGE TO ALLOW FELONY TO TURN INTO A MISDEMEANOR Does this sound like a problem to you? Pages 13 & 14
LOST 20-YEAR-OLD DRUNK "DEEP IN BALLWIN" STOPPED IN CHESTERFIELD ADMITS TO DRINKING AND SMOKING MARIJUANA BEFORE ALMOST REAR ENDING A CAR A person with a prior DWI and drug violation and arrested for DWI and drug possession and once again is branded by Chesterfield Judge Rick Brunk and Prosecutor Engelmeyer as an illegal parking violator. Don't be surprised...he was represented by another area municipal court judge. Despite prior convictions he left the courtroom with no points on his driving record. Pages 15-17
WILDWOOD MAN WITH A PRIOR DWI GETS PROBATION WITH ANOTHER DWI PENDING AT THE TIME OF THE PLEA John I. Izuchukwu lives in Wildwood. He already had a DWI conviction and a driver's license revocation for failing to take a breath test when he was arrested by Town and Country Police. Prosecutor Brian Malone dropped all charges, including "No Insurance" "Driving Off Road" and "Lane Weaving." He pled guilty to a DWI with a "no-record" probation agreement, despite having a prior DWI and a pending DWI from another jurisdiction. Pages 17 & 18
APPARENTLY TOO MANY WINES AT RANCH CIRCLE 7 Too many wines at a place known for beer resulted in several moving violations and a DWI for an Illinois woman. But no worries...she left court with no points on her record but $300 in parking ticket fines. Pages 19 & 20
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"The Rape of the A*P*E" I forget who wrote it but the initials are for the American Puritan Ethic and is a history of the sexual revolution. If enough teens read it, they might not drift into sex as easily. [:{)
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Pete Campbell is a rapist. On Sunday night's episode, he met a young au pair living in his building and helped her out of a difficult situation with her employers. He propositioned her; she refused. Later that evening, undeterred, he knocked on her door, forced her to let him in to avoid a scene, followed her into her bedroom, closed the door, and kissed her, leading her towards the bed. Apparently, for some people, this wasn't clearly a rape. I'm here to tell them: it was.
Pete Campbell is a rapist. I've heard some people say that Mad Men is a show about nuance, shades of grey, and therefore Pete Campbell Cannot Be A Rapist. (As if there was no such thing as a rapist in serious, well-developed drama.) I think these people are doing a very superficial read of Mad Men. I don't think the writer or director of this episode was the least bit confused. The au pair is slightly afraid of Pete throughout. She doesn't want him in the apartment. She recoils when he kisses her. That she submits, ultimately, is irrelevant to the question of whether Pete rapes her. She didn't want to sleep with him; she made it clear; he didn't care. He wanted to have sex, and she was there, and she owed him, in his mind. So he raped her. End of story.
Pete Campbell is a rapist. What Mad Men is being subtle about, when it shows us an episode in which a character rapes someone for no reason better than boredom, is the fact rape doesn't just happen in alleys. It doesn't just come from total strangers who leap from bushes. It doesn't involve kicking and screaming and clawing his eyeballs out, because that would only get you in even more trouble.
Other than Jon, by and large, I have never been much of a watcher of late-night TV. This is no doubt a function of my demographic. I'm too young - I grew up post-Carson. I'm also entirely too cynical to enjoy most celebrity interviews, because much of the time I'm thinking, "It's really bizarre that Kirsten Dunst is this inarticulate," or, "Why hasn't Jared Leto showered?" There are too many books in the world to read, too many blogs to surf, too much sleep to be gotten for me to watch these people night after night, even in the age of the DVR. And I've written in this space before about my suspicion that there isn't any grand standard of comedy anymore, and it seems to me like the non-Comedy-Central contingent of these shows still seem to harbour delusions on that score, of being the Great American Comedian, and so I just kind of tune them out.
So when this hullabaloo about David Letterman getting his pecker in his payroll started to kick up on Friday, readers, I yawned. Having spewed venom all week over Roman Polanski and his defenders (Pedro, why, why??!!!), I was worn out. Besides which, other than the extortion part, there seemed very little scandal in this scandal; the ladies involved were of age, and none appeared to be claiming coercion. I'm not wild about professional men viewing nubile young women in the workplace as their rightful spoils, but I've been in enough exhausting conversations with male friends about such situations ("why do you want to Stand In the Way of Love?") to know better than to spend much time arguing with them about it. I suppose Regina Lasko, Letterman's longtime girlfriend, feels somewhat differently about it, but I can't see how I or anyone else can be of use to her if we take to the soapbox to pontificate at length about just what a horndog she's married.
The fourth season of Dexter premiered this Sunday, and I was rather more excited about it than I would like to admit. I started watching back in the day because it was Michael C. Hall, and I was a Six Feet Under fan from waaaaayyy back, and I made it my business to ensure that the wonderful actors of that show continued to be employed for the forseeable future. As it turns out, Dexter was about as different a role from David Fisher as one could hope for, and I still loved Hall anyway. And then Dexter turned out to have a fallible narrator, which is a favorite literary device of mine. And then, also, it turned out to be bloody. And it had Julie Benz (Darla from Buffy and Angel)! Also there were Latino actors who were not total background characters! I've been hooked ever since. It's camp, and camp can be thoroughly enjoyable when it's as well-written and acted as Dexter is.
But that aside, I tend to have a lot of difficulty justifying my love of Dexter to myself in feminist terms. The macabre is not terribly woman-friendly, after all. Horror movies tends to feed on the startling contrast between blood and really hot blonde chicks, and there's more titillation in it (pun intended), one supposes, than anyone would like to admit. I don't know what makes us morbid; I do notice, though, that the ratio of men to women of my acquaintance who hate horror, and don't like "dark" themes in their arts and entertainment, is roughly 1:1. So perhaps it's an experience that's less gendered than I might otherwise be inclined to say.
Here's my transparent attempt to segue into an untimely essay about Lost (which won't premiere until January but my guestblogging stint ends next week): the promos for Flashforward were so ubiquitous - I first remember seeing one after the Lost finale in May - that I found myself watching it Thursday night with a sense of obligation rather than pleasure. It was, in fact, so terrible that I turned it off after fifteen minutes of wordy expository dialogue that leapfrogged over any compelling sense of dramatic tension the show might have possessed. Which is funny, because this is the show that's supposed to replace Lost for us, when Lost airs its final episode this spring. And yet, Flashforward is thus almost the mirror opposite of Lost. Lost's watchwords are mystify, obfuscate, contradict. Flashforward's are explain, tell, lecture. And so, other than observing to yourself how much Joseph Fiennes is, as he ages, resembling Ralph ever more, particularly in profile... well, there's very little to get interested or invested in in Flashforward. (Oh, and spotting the Oceanic Airlines billboard.)
In fact the only thing that Flashforward and Lost really have in common is that they both belong to this new generation of mainstream fantasy/science fiction - the kind that has better production values than Star Trek and Battlestar Galactica combined - that has finally made its way into network television in primetime slots. These shows have come up with the mainstreaming of ComicCon and the sudden retroactive chic of comic book culture, which, it seems to me, started emerging around the time Michael Chabon's Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay came out. It's not that we haven't had sci-fi and fantasy in primetime before; it's just that these shows aspire to a sort of network television legitimacy we haven't seen before. They don't just want to be invited to the Emmys; they expect to receive one. And actually, we, the audience, tend to expect that too, on their behalf. And being an obsessive reader of, say, Lostpedia, just doesn't have that stigma attached to Trekkieism, does it? The mainstreaming of fantasy may be good for formerly underdog geek culture, and certainly it seems some people have felt their inner nerd liberated by the trend. But it is still very much the kind of thing that plays out with men, among men, by men and about men. I'm not trying to be dismissive here; I can see that writers of this genre are struggling to find a place for women within it. But they haven't made much headway.
I'll admit that I only really tuned into Eastwick out of a sense of national duty - Paul Gross, like me, is Canadian, and I feel he is owed some serious cash for his talents, wasted though they might be on American network television. (Canadian television has no such riches on offer.) Gross was always a tall drink of water of an actor (he may be known to you as a Mountie), and yet he has what I would call a genuine edge, with a wonderful sense of humor, and there's something about him that for me just feels like home. So whatever he's in, I watch, and so, I watched Eastwick.
To give you an idea of what kind of objections the mere presence of Paul Gross can overcome for me, Eastwick is a loose adaptation of a movie that was a loose adaptation of a John Updike novel. And Updike, regardless of the adulation he sparks in male undergraduate English majors everywhere, hated women. There's really no way to say that gently. He just did. To wit, Eastwick (like the novel itself) is about three outcast women who are brought together by - who else - a dark, mysterious man who understands these women better than they do themselves. The women are, ostensibly, witches, in the sense that they have various powers available to them. These powers are nonetheless heavily rooted in what Updike understands as the bewitching nature of female sexuality - their ability to control men, to make men do as they want. In fact, in the novel, Gross' character, Darryl Van Horne, is the women's own conjuring of the perfect man - and which, apparently, they envision in more or less pure sexual terms.
The psyche of the political wife in the modern era - which is to say, post-defining oneself by one's husband - is the kind of thing I sort of wish feminists talked about more often. And when I say that, I mean talk about in a way that does not ultimately devolve to Hillary, Hillary, and also Hillary, who has become the sine qua non of political wife-fights. In fact, I'd be cooler with these chats being all Michelle, Michelle, Michelle, and Judy Dean, Judy Dean, Judy Dean, each of whom present different models of how to deal with being, in essence, a necessary accessory to your husband's career when you in fact have quite the career of your own. And you aren't, you know, a robot. The frankly far too frequent infidelities of political men (and oh I could go on about this ultimate exercise of male privilege, this "I am important and I shall PROVE THIS WITH MY VIRILITY" and the non-apologies about "what happened" that inevitably follow, but I shall not) throw these issues into sharp relief.
So when I heard about The Good Wife I was kind of excited. I was also excited that someone was handing Christine Baranski a paycheck, and there was even the small bonus of seeing Julianna Margulies though it disturbed my fantasy of her living a secret life with George Clooney and the twins in Seattle. Margulies is in some ways perfect for this role: gravelly and serious. The shoe of a professional woman whose life and priorities were eventually subordinated to that of her husband fits her pretty well, because there's something vaguely dissatisfied in her demeanour too. And do I like that Chris Noth is embracing his slime post-hot-L&O-detective and in the shadow of supposedly-dashing Mr. Big? I do. I really do.
Today, Oprah will be airing an interview with Mackenzie Phillips. Who is that, you say? She is a former child actress who also, coincidentally, happens to be one of the many children of the late John Phillips of The Mamas and Papas. Like most former child actresses, her personal life has been a slow-moving disaster of epic proportions - just last year, at 48, she was busted for cocaine possession. At an airport. This being more or less par for the course in former child actress terms, one might wonder why she is getting the entire hour of Oprah to herself. Wonder no more; E!Online is reporting that Phillips will reveal that she was raped by her father at 19. Phillips also calls the relationship "consensual" at some point, which Anna North at Jezebel neatly deconstructs here.
I'm not so much interested in the horrific details of what happened to Phillips, personally - I wish her excellent therapy and hopefully some peace since justice for these things isjust a word and not a realistically attainable goal. But I am filled with seething anger that these traumatic events are being turned into yet another ratings/YouTube bonanza for Oprah. Oprah thrives on this stuff, of course, even though nowadays her show lies somewhere in a no-woman's land between 20/20 and infomercials. It's the big confessional interviews, though, that are her particular specialty. She just got done with that huge Whitney Houston bonanza, and is currently "interested in" Jaycee Dugard (cringe). She gets them because she's Oprah and she milks them because she's Oprah and good goddamn it annoys me.
Because I live in Brooklyn and I like books, it's been hard to escape the name Jonathan Ames, but I haven't, admittedly, read him. His popularity among a certain set of people has triggered the contrarian in me and I gracefully skirt his work in bookstores and magazines alike. You see, Ames is the kind of person who, the Village Voice tells me, does delightfully irreverent New York things like attend charity events of which he can say, "It's to raise money for Chihuahuas." He names his protagonists after himself. If you've caught my drift, this is the kind of writer who I worry is so well-regarded because he represents a certain kind of trendy New York existence in which everyone nurtures a delightful hip Zooey-Deschanel-esque quirk so that they may safely inhabit a world without regard to responsibility or the dreary business of doing things that are true or meaningful. Or, um, wage-earning.
Someday I shall have to test this prejudice of mine out by reading his books, obviously. For now, HBO has obliged me in delivering a version of Jonathan Ames (penned by Jonathan Ames and called, of course, Jonathan Ames) in thirty-minute morsels (called Bored to Death) to confirm my prejudices. While I've only watched the one episode - which aired last night on HBO but which you can get from OnDemand or, I believe, as a free podcast on iTunes - thus far it has done nothing to alleviate my concern.


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On Monday, President Obama will unveil his proposed federal budget for 2016. Voters should be warned that virtually all the numbers reported in news coverage of the federal budget will be misleading at best.
This week marks the 50th anniversary of the death of Sir Winston Churchill, Britain's prime minister during World War II. Churchill took up painting as a hobby in 1915, after the Gallipoli debacle, where 46,000 allied lives were lost over nine months of the campaign. He went on to paint more than 500 paintings during his lifetime. As wartime prime minister, he took a break from painting, focusing instead on the task at hand - winning the war, no matter the cost.
Enthusiastic, entertaining, energized and eminent, President Obama's demeanor and delivery at the State of the Union belied his political reality. Unbowed, unbroken and possibly unaffected by the recent midterm Republican wave, Obama displayed his great skill by delivering an emotional teleprompter-driven speech that was a throwback to his first election. Varying tempo, pitch, passion and inflection, his speech was more a theatrical performance than a delivery of a prewritten, pre-released text.
Our 18-year-old granddaughter is living with us again as she goes to school, and I love having her. It reminds me of the time she was a baby living with us, and she was the love of my life - besides Molly, of course - and I took her everywhere. I packed her on my back as I covered meetings, we visited Disneyland every week, I decked her out in Disney clothes, we rode every mall merry-go-round in Southern California, we watched some of the most God-awful movies together - the adventures of Lava Boy being the worst - we enjoyed our evening walks ...
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Last week's column focused on the ways liberals use blacks in pursuit of their leftist agenda, plus their demeaning attitudes toward black people. Most demeaning are their double standards. It was recently reported that Rep. Steve Scalise, R-La., the House majority whip, spoke at a 2002 gathering hosted by white supremacist leaders when he was a Louisiana state representative. Some are calling on Scalise to step down or for House Speaker John Boehner to fire him. There's no claim that Scalise made racist statements.
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Attorney Glenn Delk and proponents are clearly trying to intimidate opponents of the amendment by accusing the state's 180 local school districts of illegally using taxpayer money to campaign against the amendment. Fortunately, they lost the first round in Fulton County Superior Court.
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There are some 20,000 miles of federal and state highways in Georgia - the interstate system and major roads that link our cities one to the other; carry our commuters to and from employment centers and give structure to our thriving logistics industry and interstate commerce.
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I recently received an email from a friend which touched on several "myths" about the American education system. The article was based on statistics gathered by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (not a misspelling, the organization originated in France).
If you aren't careful, it is very easy to get pessimistic these days. We have gotten too loud, too adversarial, too politically-correct, too ethically-challenged, too secular and too narrow-minded - not to mention slightly humor-impaired.
In order to win next month, Republican nominee Mitt Romney will have to articulate the reason why the choice for him is right. The choice has to be about more than Mitt Romney, and really about more than President Barack Obama. The compelling choice should contrast the very different futures each man would seek to create. The ability to describe and contrast two potential visions of the future -- one under Obama and the other under Romney -- will likely prove key to who wins.
Ronald Reagan had this linguistic ability, which he honed over decades of work.
If one were trying to prove in court that MSNBC is crazily biased, you could do worse than submitting Rachel Maddow's Tuesday night show.


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DURHAM, N.C. (AP) -- Miles Plumlee had 13 points and a career-high 22 rebounds, and No. 10 Duke pulled away to beat Maryland 73-55 on Saturday. Seth Curry scored 19 points and Mason Plumlee added 16 points and 10 rebounds while big brother Miles became the first Duke player with 20 rebounds since Elton Brand in 1998. The Blue Devils (21-4, 8-2 Atlantic Coast Conference) followed up their last-second victory over rival North Carolina with their fifth straight victory in the series. They built a 48-33 rebounding advantage but struggled to separate themselves on the scoreboard until they closed the game with a 13-2 run. Nick Faust scored 15 points but Terrell Stoglin, the ACC's leading scorer, finished with 13 -- nine below his average -- on 4-of-16 shooting for the Terps (14-10, 4-6). Playing their first game since starting point guard Pe'Shon Howard was lost for the season with a torn right knee ligament, they were just 1 of 14 from 3-point range, missing their first 10, and lost their third in four games. Still, they kept themselves in it for much of the way. Faust's jumper in the lane with 5 minutes left pulled Maryland to 60-53, but the Terrapins managed just one field goal the rest of the way. Meanwhile, Austin Rivers countered with a free throw and a deep 3, Curry had a pretty drive down the lane and Miles Plumlee followed Curry's missed jumper with an authoritative slam that made it 68-53 with 1:30 left. Rivers, whose buzzer-beating 3 gave Duke an 85-84 victory over the Tar Heels, finished with 11 points for the Blue Devils. Mychal Parker added 12 points for Maryland. Duke broke out its new gray uniforms -- their manufacturer calls it "platinum" -- with "Blue Devils" replacing the school's name on the front and the years of their four national championships in barely visible stars along the back shoulders. But for a while in this one, they looked like the same team that hasn't played particularly well lately at Cameron. Duke entered having lost two of its last three home games and the only win there in that stretch -- a close victory over St. John's -- felt like a loss to Krzyzewski. Neither team led by more than seven points in the opening half. Duke led 32-29 at the break after starting 1-for-10 from the field.
Duke pulls away from Maryland late
Duke pulls away from Maryland late
February 12, 2012, 12:04 am