Jacob Barker
Watchdog Reporter at St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Business, politics, etc. for @stltoday @postdispatchbiz. Proud Midwesterner. Lover of brick and old buildings.
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6 days ago |
stltoday.com | Jacob Barker
ST. LOUIS — Mayor Cara Spencer began putting her stamp on the city’s high-profile economic development arm Thursday, replacing Neal Richardson with her chief of staff, Nancy Hawes, as chair of the organization’s board of directors. Even before she was sworn in, Spencer singled out the St. Louis Development Corp. as one of the agencies where she wanted to see new leadership.
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1 week ago |
ourcommunitynow.com | Jacob Barker
ST. LOUIS — When former Mayor Tishaura O. Jones used an emergency rule to appoint John Unnerstall as chief of the city’s powerful personnel department, the appointment was supposed to end this week, just in time for Jones’ successor to tap a director. But, unless a court says otherwise, Unnerstall could be sticking around for months into Mayor Cara Spencer’s term.
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1 week ago |
stltoday.com | Jacob Barker
ST. LOUIS — When former Mayor Tishaura O. Jones used an emergency rule to appoint John Unnerstall as chief of the city’s powerful personnel department, the appointment was supposed to end this week, just in time for a new mayor to tap a director. But, unless a court says otherwise, Unnerstall could be sticking around for at least six months into Mayor Cara Spencer’s term.
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1 week ago |
stltoday.com | Jacob Barker
ST. LOUIS — As a new comptroller was sworn in for the first time in 30 years, the sound of bagpipes echoed through the City Hall rotunda. It was a nod to new Comptroller Donna Baringer’s Irish heritage in St. Louis, which she said stretches back to the Kerry Patch neighborhood north of downtown where refugees from the famine settled in the mid-19th century.
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1 week ago |
ourcommunitynow.com | Jacob Barker
Share In the wake of a troubled rollout of a new accounting system and reports that Green often was absent from the office, Baringer ran on a promise to run the office more efficiently and energetically. “I became very upset with what was happening in the city of St. Louis, so upset that I said I’m too frustrated, I need to run for comptroller,” Baringer said. ST.
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“She bucked transparency advocates and longstanding practice by refusing to make public her opinions on everyday city matters… And the attorneys were largely forbidden to speak with the press.” Via @ahuguelet https://t.co/aaGDycKABP
Missouri governor signs controversial utility legislation. Your bills will rise, critics say https://t.co/pCceHWJ0XI via @stltoday
"It was a rejection of the present administration, including Green, by the voters.” https://t.co/4iVcQDHRPL