Municipalities

Missouri Solicitor General John Sauer said taxation-by-citation was “entrenched in St. Louis County” and it impacted poor, minority communities.

Ashcroft said voter turnout is much higher in partisan elections for state and federal offices, and changing local and municipal elections to partisan could bring more people to the polls.

Residents across the St. Louis area came out to vote Tuesday in Missouri's first elections since officials enacted stay-at-home orders to combat the…

In 2008, with his book “Mapping Decline,” history professor Colin Gordon brought context to the issues of vacant houses, boarded-up storefronts and…

When Mackenzie Village’s voters go to the polls Tuesday, the fate of their south county community will hang in the balance.They will decide whether to…

A Muslim man has filed a lawsuit against the city of County Club Hills, Mayor Bender McKinney and three aldermen, claiming that they discriminated against…

A three-judge panel of the Missouri Court of Appeals has ruled that the St. Louis County Council overstepped its boundaries when it tried to impose…

A St. Louis County law that would have set minimum operating standards for police departments in the county is in the hands of a three-judge panel of the…

On the latest edition of the Politically Speaking podcast, St. Louis Public Radio’s Jason Rosenbaum and Jo Mannies welcome back state Rep. Robert Cornejo…

A judge has thrown out a St. Louis County ordinance that requires municipal police departments to adhere to certain standards.It’s a temporary blow to a…