Bob McCarty Writes

Three days ago, I shared news about powerful Illinois Democrats circling their wagons to protect one of their own after a St. Patrick’s Day incident at a Carlinville, Ill., tavern.  In the final paragraph of that post, I wrote: When — not if — more details do surface, this story has potential to become the [...]

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Today might go down in the history books as a bad day for new Missouri House Speaker Steve Tilley, a Republican from Perryville, Mo. First, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch ran an article within which the term “race baiting” was used to describe a member of the St. Louis Tea Party Coalition who had written a [...]

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You might remember the post I published Jan. 11 about Dolores Sherman, the so-called “potato lady” running for a board of aldermen seat in St. Peters, Mo.  Well, word on the street is that the 85-year-old self-employed grandmother has turned into even more of a “hot potato” than I thought she might when I published the [...]

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Maybe St. Peters’ ‘potato lady’ should be mayor. The words above appeared as the headline of a St. Louis Post-Dispatch article Nov. 27, 2005, and could be considered prophetic if not for the fact that the woman in question, Dolores Sherman, isn’t running for mayor. Sherman, 85, is running for one of two Ward One [...]

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You’ll have to excuse me for the oversight, but I just found out that the St. Louis Convention and Visitors Commission is preparing a bid to host the Democratic National Convention in 2012.  And I’m pretty stoked about it! Why didn’t I know about it before now?  Perhaps, its because I’m not a regular or [...]

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Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Bill Mauldin today received one of the nation’s highest honors in being featured on a U.S. postage stamp. The 44-cents stamp was dedicated at the New Mexico History Museum in Santa Fe, N.M., and goes on sale nationwide today. During World War II, Mauldin’s cartoons, appearing in Stars and Stripes, made [...]

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Having worked with journalists at NHK while living in Japan 20 years ago, I was excited to see a crew from the Japanese television network at Kiener Plaza in downtown St. Louis Saturday afternoon.  My first thought:  “The local tea party movement had finally earned a spot on the world stage.”  But I was wrong. [...]

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