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Amy Winehouse

Heard that St. Louis City Hall has hired the Austin-TX-based law firm, Linebarger, Goggan, Blair & Sampson to collect on red light camera violation tix. Why not a St. Louis law firm?  Is it because no one here believes the tickets are fair including the lawyers?  Hasn’t Circuit Judge Robert Dierker filed a lawsuit against the tix? Seems no one is aware whether they have to pay. . .Consumers are readying to buy albums recorded by the late Amy Winehouse’s titled, “Back to Black,” which was initially released in 2007.  Hundreds of thousands have already been bought since her death. . .Former President George W. Bush will open up on Aug. 28 on the National Geographic Channel about the killing of Osama Bin Laden – on the 10th anniversay of 9/11.. .Cathy Sherwin of the Missouri AFL-CIO opines, “Republican House Speaker John Boehner’s proposed budget is tantamount to a form of ‘class warfare.’ If enacted it could well produce the greatest increase in poverty and hardship produced by any law in modern U.S. history”. . .Under the eye-catching headline, “Why are Catholic, seventh-graders raising money to lobby for abortion and contraception?”, the St. Louis Catholic blog is blasting a parochial school over “a social justice program” held there.  According to line postings by Our Lady Queen of Peace in House Springs, students studied “women’s rights” and ended up donating money to a group called Equality Now, which reportedly advocates for the legalization of abortion and lobbies for family planning funding. Board members of Equality Now include Gloria Steinem, Meryl Streep, Jane Fonda and Alanis Morisette. . .For the first time in 18 years, the Lindbergh High School “Spirit of St. Louis Marching Band” is beginning summertime practice sans director Bob Spiegelman.  Spiegelman, who quadrupled the size of the band and led it to two Rose Bowl performances, passed away from cancer in January.  But, if any fans wondered whether his loss might somehow reduce the band’s busy schedule and high profile, they can relax.  Look for the 200-plus kids, under the guidance of David Wynn, to perform at this Friday’s Cards game and the Rams’ home game on Oct. 30.

News that state representative Rachel Storch (D. St. Louis) has announced her intention to wed a financier warmed the columnist’s romantic heart, but one has to wonder what Storch, who is a member of the Democratic National Committee, will make of fiancee Barry Akrongold‘s reported campaign contributions to Republican Sen. Norm Coleman, Sen. Mitch McConnell and President George W. Bush and the presidential campaign of John McCain and Sarah Palin. (Offering some hope of marital harmony, Akrongold, who lives in New York, also reportedly contributed to N.Y. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand‘s campaign).