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Vol. 90 No. 29 COMPLIMENTARY
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53K voters registered in STL By Charles Jaco For The St. Louis American
‘This is a fight for a stronger democracy’
Missouri voter registration for the November 6 midterm elections closed on Wednesday, October 10. Any hope Democrats have of fighting Trump, saving Senate seats like U.S. Senator
Claire McCaskill’s and tossing out House enablers of white nationalism like U.S. Rep. Ann Wagner in Missouri and U.S. Rep. Mike Bost in Illinois will depend on a black-and-blue
wave at the polls. A coalition of community organizations operating under the umbrella name of Missouri Black Votes has spent the summer trying to guarantee
that very thing, attending community picnics, street fairs, cookouts, parades, festivals, and neighborhood parties, pounding the pavement and registering voters in a powerful
display of grass-roots retail politics. Preliminary figures show they registered 27,616 voters in St. Louis and 27,445 voters in St. Louis County, while also
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US Atty Jeff Jensen: ‘It has to be a community effort’
Kelvin J. Taylor Sr. For The St. Louis American
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Federal prosecutor works to reduce violent crime
Investment in black males pays off Part of a year-long series, presented by The American and the Brown School at Washington University, on changing the narratives and outcomes of young black males in St. Louis. While 66 percent of African-American children live in single-parent n A superior households, black outcome awaits students attend by investing in disproportionately the diversity of underfunded perspective, schools, and black juveniles are 5 ability and times more likely contributions to be incarcerated that we bring to than their white the region. It is counterparts, we are neither predisposed in our region’s nor destined for bad economic selfoutcomes. interest to invest The black men in black men. in my circle are pastors, bankers, philanthropists, successful entrepreneurs, corporate officers and proud, blue collar men who love their families and this country. Many of them are college graduates, including some from Ivy League schools and military academies. We have lively debates about the merits of competing economic doctrines, politics and religion. We regularly joke about our relative failings in
working in Jackson County, around Kansas City. “This is a statewide non-partisan push to create access for voting,” said Angela Pearson, spokesperson of Missouri Black Votes. “This is a fight for a stronger democracy and a larger number
By Chris King Of The St. Louis American
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Taylors woo MLS to STL Jim Kavanaugh, co-founder and CEO of World Wide Technology, and members of the Taylor family from Enterprise Rent-A-Car announced a new proposal to bring a Major League Soccer franchise to St. Louis during a press conference at Mathews-Dickey Boys & Girls Club on October 9. Carolyn Kindle-Betz, senior VP of Enterprise Holdings and executive director of the Enterprise Holding Foundation, leads the ownership group with six other female members of the Taylor family as well as Kavanaugh. This would be the first majority female-owned MLS club. Kavanaugh and Kindle Betz are joined by Andrew C. Taylor, executive chairman of Enterprise Holdings, and Mathews-Dickey CEO Wendell Covington Jr.
When Jeff Jensen accepted the commission to serve as U.S. attorney for Eastern Missouri, which includes a city with one of the nation’s worst violent crime problems, St. Louis, he wanted to address that crisis. But he had a problem. By law, most violent crimes are prosecuted by states, not the federal government. Jensen was determined to find a way to help prosecute more violent crimes for good reasons. There is a real crisis, and local authorities could use help. Federal prosecutors U.S. are better funded than circuit Attorney attorneys and in a position to Jeff Jensen help with resources. And the Probation and Parole Office for Eastern Missouri has a far better record for rehabilitating ex-offenders than the national average for analogous cases at state parole offices – better by nearly a factor of 10. Jensen was determined to find creative ways to help. A little more than one year into the job, his creativity and that of his local partners have resulted in new systems of working together that are resulting in a great many more prosecutions of violent crime — more than double the number from the previous year — See CRIME, A6
Six new suits allege police brutality Then-Major John Hayden, who is now St. Louis police chief, commanded the protest scene at Busch Stadium on September 29, 2017, when Police Officer William Olsten unleashed pepper spray on Amir Brandy and other Stockley verdict protestors. Brandy is one of six plaintiffs in new lawsuits alleging police brutality filed against the city.
Now-Chief Hayden was protest scene commander on night in question By Rebecca Rivas Of The St. Louis American The City of St. Louis now faces nearly 25 lawsuits alleging police misconduct – all stemming from the nine months that former interim police chief Lawrence O’Toole was leading the St. Louis Metropolitan Police
Department. O’Toole – who is now assistant chief – was at the helm of the department when a circuit judge ruled on September 15, 2017 that former city police officer Jason Stockley was not guilty of murdering Anthony See POLICE, A7
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