Monday, May 21, 2012
Ellisville Mayor Adam Paul said the relocation policy will not assist tenants who moved in to the apartment complex after January 1.
Ellisville Mayor Adam Paul said the city's new relocation policy meant to compensate Clarkchester Apartments residents to be displaced by a Walmart Superstore may not help those who moved in after January 1. When the project was approved this month, Paul said, the plan allowed up to $1,000 to be given to each household within Clarkchester Apartments in order to compensate for relocation costs; Clarkchester Apartments is one of several business properties that currently occupies the parcels that have been designated for the project. At the council's last meeting, however, Paul said he recently discovered that the policy may only apply to residents who moved in by January 1, 2012. (Editor's Note: To follow this story and more, subscribe to …
Saturday, May 19, 2012
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The national program airing Saturday and Sunday will focus on initiative petition campaigns tied to capping interest rates at 36 percent.
A Missouri ballot initiative aimed at curtailing interest rates at “payday loan” entities is getting some national attention. For an episode of PBS’s Need to Know, airing locally this weekend, the program traveled to the Show Me State to follow around activists who are collecting signatures for an initiative petition. If the ballot measure makes it to the ballot and if voters approve it, interest rates on certain lending companies would be capped at 36 percent. Supporters of the initiative argue that the loan agencies place poorer Missourians in a cycle of debt. But opponents counter that the entities are usually the only way lower-income citizens can obtain short-term loans to pay ordinary expenses. While supporters of the initiative …
Friday, May 18, 2012
Ellisville City Councilmember Troy Pieper said potentially voting against a special election that would determine the recall of elected officials—an initiative presently aimed at himself and another council member—would not present a conflict of interest.
Ellisville City Councilmember Troy Pieper said this week that despite that fact that some citizens' efforts to remove himself and another member out of office would require the current council to vote for a special election, voting against holding that election would not present a conflict of interest. The recall efforts began earlier this month following support given to a Walmart project by Pieper and four other council members. The vote earlier this month for the big box store has been fraught with controversy due in part its use of a TIF or tax increment financing district, which provided an extra incentive for the project's developer, the Sansone Group, who will receive half of all new sales tax generated at the site, possibly for a …
Country music and laryngitis are two of the methods employed this week.
The last few iterations of this column have noted how several candidates for the U.S. Senate utilized creative means to entice fundraising efforts. For instance, Rep. Todd Akin (R-Wildwood) used his rhetorical scuffle with President Barack Obama over student loans in a fundraising pitch. And Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) has directly attacked third-party organizations that are pre-emptively attacking the incumbent lawmaker as she makes a difficult bid for re-election. McCaskill’s campaign staff continued on a creative path in an email that was sent to supporters earlier this week. They played on the fact that McCaskill had lost her voice right before she was supposed to make a speech at a Democratic gathering in Kansas City. “Between …
St. Louis voters will decide the rate at which their sewer rates rise this summer. Here's a look at the federal law—and lawsuit—that started it all.
Hundreds of sewer overflows in the Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District (MSD) system are at the heart of a Clean Water Act settlement agreement and a ballot issue planned June 5 in Ballwin and Ellisville, according to a document compiled by MSD. In August, MSD reached the settlement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Missouri Coalition for the Environment Foundation, a news release posted to the federal agency's website states. Now, MSD customers are tasked with deciding whether they will pay more now—or later—to fund the $4.7 billion in repair work mandated by the agreement. Several sources outline the alleged violations and the reasons for the EPA's involvement in the case. The following are questions by Patch paired …
Thursday, May 17, 2012
Ellisville area State Senator Jane Cunningham was hospitalized overnight in Jefferson City after feeling light-headed Wednesday at the state capitol.
Missouri State Senator Jane Cunningham (R-Chesterfield) should be back at the State Capitol following a brief hospitalization overnight Wednesday. Senator Cunningham's Chief of Staff Kit Crancer said Thursday morning that "the Senator is doing well and will be released later today." According to the Twitter account for the Missouri State Senate, members in the chamber were updated on her health this morning and learned that she would return to the Capitol Thursday. Cunningham, who is not running for re-election after state legislative redistricting essentially left her without a race to run, became light headed Wednesday during debate on an education bill. The legislative session ends at 5 p.m. Friday.
The St. Louis Rams have outlined a renovation plan for the Edward Jones Dome that is estimated to cost $700 million.
The Rams want us to buy them a new house. Just fixing up its current home—the Edward Jones Dome—won't do. Instead, the St. Louis football franchise expects an extreme makeover, to the tune of $700 million, as it is estimated by a company hired by the St. Louis Convention and Visitors Commission (CVC) to analyze the team's counter proposal to a the CVC's own plan to upgrade the Edward Jones Dome with a $124 million facelift. If someone doesn't cough up the $700 mil to redo the Dome, it is feared the team will take its football and go home to Los Angeles, where it came from before it was the St. Louis franchise. All of this wrangling was set in motion in 1995 when the team negotiated a 30-year lease with the CVC. It was stipulated that the …
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
A group representing neighbors of a Schnucks being constructed at the northwest corner of Ballwin say additional commercial fencing would disguise undesired exposure of the grocery store.
The Ballwin Board of Aldermen this week heard from a coalition of neighbors seeking changes to the city code that would allow a Schnucks grocery store being built to exceed the city's existing height cap on commercial fencing. “Our home is our sanctuary," said Gerry Matlock, 67, who said he was designated to represent neighbors who live in the seven residential properties adjacent to the pending store. "We want to come home in the evenings, we want to do things with our families and with our kids, and with people who are retired. We want to have privacy, and we want to be separated from a commercial grocer.” At Monday's board meeting, Matlock said he was grateful the board agreed to consider the group’s request last month for taller …
The Ellisville City Council will meet Wednesday to discuss changes to the recently-approved relocation policy affecting residents at Clarkchester Apartments, which is expected to be demolished in anticipation of a Walmart Superstore.
The Ellisville City Council will meet Wednesday to discuss changes to the recently approved relocation policy affecting residents at Clarkchester Apartments, which is expected to be demolished in anticipation of a Walmart Superstore. At an informal work session Wednesday night, the council is scheduled to talk about possible amendments to the policy, which set forth compensation of up to $1,000 per household to residents of Clarkchester. Additionally, the council is expected to address concerns from residents near Weis Avenue about potential traffic issues related to the pending Walmart. At the subsequent meeting Wednesday, the Ellisville council is scheduled to address committee recommendations regarding a Ruby's Guns store …
Michael Rhodes
9:05 pm on Monday, May 21, 2012
ES: I read the statutes and did not see anything that would limit the relocation amounts to leases signed before January 1, 2012. Do you know why the mayor thinks they may not be covered? Did he provide a reason at the meeting that isn't in this story? more ›