Archive for the ‘Business as Usual’ Category

Do not invite  St. Louis  county spokesman Mac Scott and KMOX news honcho John Butler to the same soiree.  Scott and Butler have been exchanging angry calls over the radio station’s use of unnamed sources to assert that federal authorities are investigating contract irregularities in involving current senior employees of county government.  Scott denies  it, noting that a former employee’s records were subpoenaed in an income tax investigation involving a home in another state.  Butler insists he has first hand sources. Somebody is wrong.

After a several day session in Judge Robert Dierker’s courtroom, St. Louis county developer Paul McKee’s massive NorthSide project is facing one of its first deadlines: an agreement between McKee’s companies and the city set April 1 as the date that McKee will propose more exact plans and request additional city assistance.  Most City Hall observers expect McKee and his partners will let the date slip by while the McEagle team continues to acquire properties and wait for answers to his requests for federal and state assistance.

Technisonic production studio’s Mike Stroot took a breather with his sons, Matt, Joe and Nick at Beffa’s after having completed a production for the U.S. Army on sexual harassment .  “We did the work through Summit Marketing and it’s a half-hour production using lots of special effects,” said Stroot, a yesteryear feature reporter on KTVI-TV, Channel 2. Next for the Stroots – an image video for Sigma Aldrich’s use in trade shows and conventions.

Opponents (and supporters) of a new casino project in north St. Louis county (for purposes of this column known as “Gene McNary’s Last Gasp Legacy Casino”) may have an opportunity to watch the Missouri Gaming Commission in action on Feb. 24.  The commissioners are planning to meet at the Council Chambers of the St. Louis County Government Building, 41 South Central avenue, at 9 a.m.  Although the Gaming Commission generally does not allow public comment at its meetings, partisans on at least one side of the issue hope to be heard and are collecting comments to be submitted in advance to Leann McCarthy, the Gaming Commission’s public information coordinator.   (Assignment editors at the local daily may copy as usual.)