Posts Tagged ‘Kurt Greenbaum’

The typical marriage story. They started out to be good friends, but later they changed their minds. That would be Baltimore’s  Patty and Bob Quicksilver, who have decided to call it quits. Both, former  St. Louisans, he once owned a chain of six candy stores – underwritten by Patty’s dad, the late Sid Rich,. to the tune of $600,000 – which bellied up. . .Addressing the recent leak of Pentagon information, Sen. Kit Bond said on network teevee:: “We’re not counting on good journalistic judgement”. . .Director of social media (IT) Kurt Greenbaum has ankled the Post-Dispatch for a berth at patch.com. .  .T.J. Birkenmeier is circulating the latest from UntaxMeNow, that reads: “Nothing impairs wealth accumulation (a.k.a. freedom) more than taxes.  That’s why taxes are referred to as “redistribution of wealth”. . .Caught up with former St. Louis Symph chief  (1966-1972) David Hyslop, who has since married Sally Fefercorn in Minneapolis, where he operates a consulting shop. Hyslop remains in touch with former symph maestro Lenny Slatkin, who commutes between Detroit and Lyon, France (some combination).  And, Hyslop confides he surfed on the ‘net to find baggy pants burlesque comic Billy “Zoot” Reed, who held forth, between strippers, at the old Grand Theatre.  “I was not in the concert hall all of the time,” he admitted.

The office of Missouri Secretary of State Robin Carnahan has begun asking local governments to quantify the economic consequences of a series of Rex Sinquefeld-sponsored petitions to abolish the earnings tax collected by St. Louis and Kansas City (and, beyond Rex’s current reach, by most major cities in the country.) In St. Louis , the earnings taxes paid by city residents and by others who work within the city limits amount to one-third of the entire city budget (or the cost of operating the entire police dept)… The two trains of Charlie Dooley, county exec and candidate, brushed each other on the tracks this week.  While Dooley campaign exec John Temporiti was dousing Republican challenger Bill Corrigan‘s No-Tax announcement with proof of Dooley’s own tax-cutting chops, county officials were telling reporters that Dooley was supporting a half-cent sales tax increase for public transportation… Yes, that was former St. Louis mayor Clarence Harmon sitting back-to-back with former St. Louis mayor Vince Schoemehl over lunch at low-profile Beffa’s.  Unrelated meetings and polite handshakes, reported bemused observers.  Meanwhile, Fredbird – the unlikely club next door to St. Louis’s most hidden restaurant – will host a fundraiser Dec. 5 to promote the 2010 season of the Arch Rival Roller Girls… From my booth at the McDonald’s across the street from the Post-Dispatch, it looks like on-line editor Kurt Greenbaum (a true gentleman, by the way) has managed to do exactly what his bosses wanted him to do: get readers.  A P-D story – more accurately, stories about the newspaper – spent the past week near the top of the Google International search list.  Greenbaum, who oversees most of the paper’s social media efforts, drew worldwide attention for telling a local school that someone using its computers had posted and reposted a naughty comment on a P-D website… Erstwhile P-D commentary page editor Eric Mink was beckoned by The New York Times as freelancer to pen a review of a new production of “The Card Game” in the long-running “Frontline” documentary series on PBS. Published Nov. 23, the review is headlined “In Love with Credit, It’s Business as Usual”… Betsy Taylor, super-reporter in the Associated Press’s St. Louis bureau, is job hunting.