An elected city official just called to say he was “feeling great” to hear today’s news about the RFT, which I think says a lot about our reporting and the importance of local journalism more broadly. On that note, I’m looking for my next thing: ryan.william.krull
@gmail
.com.
In 2018, Josh Hawley blasted his opponent for flying private. Six years later, his campaign is spending six figures on chartered/private flights. $130K in last nine months alone.
Since I no longer have a place to publish discreetly recorded audio of St. Louis City Sheriff Vernon Betts. And because this has done little to dim people’s enthusiasm for sending it to me, I’m just going to post this here.
Since I no longer have a place to publish opera reviews, I'll just put this here: The Barber at Seville, which opened at
@OTSL
last night, is just terrific -- so fresh and funny and smartly conceived. Even the costumes made me laugh out loud.
An update on the Dara Daugherty alleged illegal rooming house/slumlord scheme. The judge seems to be throwing the book at her. Via the St. Louis Daily newsletter.
Neighbors are taking action against a property left to rot by slumlord Dara Daugherty, right in the heart of Antique Row. Such a waste of potential in this building—but hopefully not for long…
"People on our team have worked on elections where the margin was 6 votes," says
@LucasKunceMO
press sec
@kelli_kee
"It's not over til it's over. And it's definitely not over with only 25% of the vote in."
#MOSEN
UPDATE...Similar to the Bar:PM crash, both officers in vehicle appear to be new to the department. Driver has been on force less than a year. Passenger has been SLMPD officer for one year.
St. Louis Sheriff Vernon Betts will likely have a decision to make later today. Does he want to concede the election or pay ~$10k for a hand recount. Per the St. Louis Daily newsletter.
@stlmag
The Riverfront Times new owner is “a free soul whose existence is made possible through savvy minimalism, tech biz knowhow and a vegan diet,”
@stlpublicradio
reports. What a story by
@JessicaRogen
St. Louis Sheriff Vernon Betts will likely have a decision to make later today. Does he want to concede the election or pay ~$10k for a hand recount. Per the St. Louis Daily newsletter.
@stlmag
Just FYI, if you like this sort of coverage,
@sarahfenske
and I have a newsletter launching 7/29, the St. Louis Daily, that will be chock-full of it everyday.
Very important clarification. Only the resisting charge against Morris was dropped. He is still charged with assault. My fault for the below. Full story here:
It's also looking good for
@buschvalentine
on the Democratic side for
#MOSEN
. She has more than 50% in STL County, which I believe has the largest (or one of the largest) concentration of Democratic voters in the state.
Wow, very cool to see
@RiverfrontTimes
weed correspondent in the pages of Harpers, like many other influential men and women of American letters before him
@DoyleMurphy
Over the past two years, two different St. Louis County Council chairs gave auditor Toni Jackson unauthorized raises. This is on the heels of Jackson improperly trying to give herself a raise in 2022, allegedly.
Update in the trial of Sweetie Pie’s star Tim Norman. The jury has asked to review exhibits: flight records for Terica Ellis; texts between Norman and his attorney; the application for the life insurance policy on Andre Montgomery submitted by Norman
St. Louis City Sheriff Vernon Betts was enraged with what he perceived as a deputy's political disloyalty. He was just as angry when someone had the audacity to call him--while he was watching Mulan, nonetheless--and confront him about it.
A lot goes into making a jail a dangerous place. Read
@RyanWKrull
's latest
@RiverfrontTimes
cover story on a vicious beating at CJC and the many factors at play.
DHHS “raids” VFW hall that sells Delta-9 drinks at its bar. Enforcing a new law banning the sale of THC-infused drinks anywhere except dispensaries. VFW says these THC drinks are crucial for vets who want to hang at the hall but not drink alcohol.
Until very recently this landlord controlled ~2400 apartments in the STL area. Residents spoke about doors that didn't lock, furnaces that didn't heat, roofs that collapsed, and myriad other issues. I wrote about it for the
@RiverfrontTimes
This lawsuit filed by the city today spells out a wild "illegal rooming house" scheme spanning 39 properties in at least nine south city neighborhoods.
If anyone wants to tune out of the news cycle for an hour so at any point in the coming days/weeks, I couldn't recommend this 2013 interview with Evan Wright any more highly. RIP. So sad.
@WJohnson68
@Beganovic2024
You’re not wrong. But at the same time I am sure businesses in the area would appreciate buildings with people living in them.
Richard wrote a lot of great short fiction. I was really luck to get to know him and hear some great stories from his own life, too. He had some wild literary days. RIP
For over a year I worked on this story about a serial killer who murdered at least three people in St. Louis. The
@RiverfrontTimes
published it yesterday. There's still a chance this case gets solved.
Astute words from attorney Terry Niehoff: "The worst part about the city is the siloes...The sheriff's office, the police, the courts, the jail. They're always fighting. They all hate each other."
In one two week period last month, 462 cars were reported stolen or attempted stolen. During those same two weeks, only one person was charged with a crime related to auto theft.
Fifteen MO DOC employees talked to
@RiverfrontTimes
for this story about the climate of fear in MO prisons. "Resources that should go into rehabilitating inmates..instead go into these employees being paranoid someone is going to stab them in the back."
Things seemed to have particularly grim at this house on Virginia, but some version of this was playing out at dozens of properties across nine south city neighborhoods.
The feds have now seized $2 million, 15 ATM terminals and 4,223 cartons of cigarettes from St. Louis' most famous informant, Mohammed Almuttan, and his co-co-conspirators. Details:
@FJMoz
's Hot Stew is terrific, an ensemble novel of developers, sex workers, white collars, blue collars, no collars, a subterranean cult of the homeless--all packed together in a few blocks of a London neighborhood. Was really fun to talk to her about it.
"Hot Stew," Fiona Mozley's clever and lively novel about the bustling streets of London's Soho neighborhood, is climbing to the top of the Best of 2021 lists. Join us tonight at 7pm on Facebook for Mozley's interview with Ryan Krull from
@BoulevardLitMag
.