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Journalist and former congressional candidate Ray Hartmann died Thursday in a car crash. He was 73. Attorney Andy Leonard, a representative
Sarah Fenske at St. Louis Magazine:
Journalist and former congressional candidate Ray Hartmann died Thursday in a car crash. He was 73. Attorney Andy Leonard, a representative for Hartmann’s family, says Hartmann was killed when a wheel came off of a semi and struck his car on I-64 just west of 270. The truck driver is reportedly cooperating with the investigation. Hartmann was known as a staunch liberal on Donnybrook, the Nine PBS show he helped to co-found in 1987, but he started his career in public life by writing speeches for U.S. Senator Kit Bond, a Republican. He started the Riverfront Times not long after, at age 24. Originally a community newspaper for people who worked downtown, the RFT found a new voice after Hartmann connected with people who’d started alt-weeklies in other cities as anti-establishment alternatives to mainstream media. As a columnist, Hartmann was unrelenting in his criticism of regional boosters who wanted to spend tax money on projects he considered dubious. After Hartmann sold the publication to Phoenix-based New Times in 1998 for a reported $15 million, he resurrected St. Louis Magazine, where he served as publisher (and columnist) before selling it in 2019.
Ray Hartmann, a longtime Donnybrook panelist, 2024 MO-02 Democratic candidate, and founder of Riverfront Times (RFT) and St. Louis Magazine, dies at the age of 73 in a car crash on I-64 just west of I-270 in Missouri.
Chris Keating, CEO of Big Lou Media, which sold the RFT, didn't immediately respond to questions, including about the buyer's identity.
i am so incredibly saddened by this news. the RFT was one of the last bastions of independent journalism that exists in this city and now it's just poof gone. please support your local hometown journalists. you truly don't know what you'd be missing without them.
Private and corporate donors have been prioritized over the needs of Black, working-class public transit users
It came up, during the plague, that rider fares amount to less than 2% of Metro Transit's gross revenue; that's why they were able to board people through the rear door and skip the fares during covid. If a quarter of the riders were skipping fares (and I'm pretty confident it's less than that) it'd mean a drop in revenue of under half a percent. That's less than the random day-to-day fluctuations. It's way less than the losses to inflation. It's trivial.
(The only reason there are even token fares is to keep the unhoused from using the buses and trains as home/office space. Not that we saw anywhere near enough of that to crowd out actual transportation users during the last free-fare period, though.)
For no more actual, provable benefit than these fare gates will provide, the cost is obscene. I'd question if they were a good idea even if they were donated for free, complete with someone voluntarily paying for all the maintenance they'll need, but given that they cost $52 million (not counting future maintenance), and no more extra revenue than they'll generate? They're a seriously dumb idea.
But, they're a dumb idea that's very popular with rich campaign donors, and very popular with exurban voters who'll never go anywhere near the system even with the fare gates, they'll just move on to the next excuse, and there'll always be a next excuse.
There is no force more implacable than a Bad Idea Whose Time Has Come.
According to the ADL, the church's founder and head pastor Dan Gayman, now in his 80s, has long been a thought leader of the Christian Identity movement and helped popularize what is called the two seedline theory, an influential belief in that extremist sphere that contends Jews are the cursed offspring born from a union between the Biblical Eve and the devil. A national leader of one of the largest Ku Klux Klan factions in the U.S. has sat on the church’s board of directors. And Gayman has espoused other explicitly racist views, including being quoted in the Kansas City Star asking rhetorically, "What has any colored person ever invented?" But church members are not persona non grata in every corner of Vernon County politics. "They are amazing patriots," says Cyndia Haggard. Haggard is the Vernon County Republican Committee chairwoman and one of the leading activists behind the effort to make the vetting of Republican candidates the norm in all 114 counties across Missouri. She confirmed to the RFT that there are members of the Church of Israel on the central committee, and that Gayman is among them.
Pastor Dan Gayman sits on the committee that decides who gets to run as a Republican – and he’s not the only Church of Israel member on it
Also fun, the lawyer on the pro-vetting side is Mark McCloskey. If that name sounds familiar, it's probably because you've seen a picture of him. Likely this one:
Wow! I was nominated for Best Local Author in the Riverfront Times Best of St. Louis 2023.
I would appreciate your vote.
It is an honor to be nominated and thank you to everyone who entered my name. Congratulations to my fellow nominees, check out their books.
Head to RiverfrontTimes.com to vote.
https://vote.riverfronttimes.com/arts-and-entertainment/best-local-author
The trial is scheduled for October and the victim's family is frustrated by this latest of many delays
Our two-tier justice system at its finest. If your dad's rich enough to buy you a Maserati at 17, it scarcely matters if you murder someone with it.
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click to enlarge Screengrab Dr. Mollie James has spoken at a string of anti-vaccine “Covid Summits,” with videos posted live by Epoch Times/New Tang Dynasty Television. On April 9, 2020, St. Louis critical-care physician Mollie James flew to New York. She felt compelled to serve in the country’s biggest city, which was facing mounting devastation from a terrifying new virus. It was a uniquely…
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