Bob McCarty Writes

Only a year after she was banned from a minor league ballpark, “One-Sheet” Sheryl Crow will be the official musical entertainer at the 2009 Major League Baseball All-Star Charity Concert in downtown St. Louis July 11, according to a report in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch today.
Rumor has it that, as part of her contract, Missouri [...]

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Though I wrote about plans for the St. Louis Tea Party and fully intended to be there this morning on the grounds of the world-famous Arch, a broken hand — the result of playing basketball 3-4 nights a week against young men less than half my age — prevented me from doing that today.  In [...]

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Finally, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch has reported on the St. Louis Tea Party which took place at 11 a.m. local today on the steps at the foot of the world-famous Arch.
Unfortunately, reporter Tim O’Neil’s article (Anti-stimulus protesters rally at the Arch) that appeared on the newspaper’s web site provided only 200 hardly-descriptive words, one bullhorn-emitted [...]

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It seems as if nothing has changed at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch during the 24 hours.  The blackout on newspaper coverage of the Saint Louis Tea Party continues.
Yesterday, in St. Louis Newspaper Ignores Tea Party Movement, I highlighted the fact that the staff at the city’s lone major daily had ignored the upcoming local iteration [...]

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This morning, I decided to search the online pages of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch for news about the Saint Louis Tea Party, now less than 48 hours away.  Why?  Because, to date, the St. Louis area’s only major daily newspaper has yet to carry news about the local event or others like it around the [...]

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