When voters head to the ballot box on Tuesday, they will face many contentious questions that have been dissected 100 different ways: Kamala Harris or Donald Trump, Lucas Kunce or Josh Hawley, should abortion be legal or illegal? I don't think I'm very likely to sway anyone one way or another on any of these.… Continue reading Election Day 2024: A Voter’s Guide
If you haven't yet gotten the chance to check out my analysis of the six candidates vying to join Zimmer or Gibbons on the Council, I think it provides some good context for the article below and is worth checking out ahead of Tuesday's election! This coming Tuesday, Kirkwood will elect a new Mayor for… Continue reading Kirkwood’s Next Mayor
Yesterday, no excuse absentee voting began for April 2nd's municipal elections. Those elections will be pivotal for Kirkwood as citizens will be asked to choose which four Council Members and the Mayor, fully five of the Council's seven-member body, will chart a new course forward for the community. Next week, I will seek to tackle… Continue reading Decision 2024: Council Endorsements
On April 2nd, Kirkwood residents will have the opportunity to elect four council members and a new Mayor. Over the next month, I'll have plenty of coverage of the candidates for those positions, but this week I wanted to take a step back and look at the distinct electoral process by which that new five-person… Continue reading Kirkwood’s Strange Electoral System
Last night, Proposition 1, an initiative that would have instituted a 1-cent city-wide sales tax to fund road repaving, failed by a 344 vote margin. If you read my piece arguing in favor of Prop 1 from a couple of days ago, you know I think that sucks. But before we move on to ideas… Continue reading A Tale of Two Kirkwoods
Six candidates for three spots. This week I focused on the six. I tried my hardest to sort through the six candidates for Tuesday's city council election; to get them to say the quiet part out loud. If you haven't done so already, I encourage you to go back and read those profiles and interviews… Continue reading 3 Spots. 6 Candidates. 14 Prairial.
I've spent a long time trying to get this Maggie Duwe article right. It's been hard to find something new to say. Duwe didn't respond to my email requests to participate in an interview; I've been hard on her voting record in the past. Those two things are probably related. But you can't commit to… Continue reading Maggie Duwe.
Ellen Edman respectfully declined to be quoted for this profile. While outwardly she cited a desire to remain objective in light in the fact she is still currently a member of the council, it's hard to imagine that political calculations didn't play a role. At the beginning of March when I had first asked if… Continue reading Ellen Edman.
Sandy Washington has had what I think most would call an inauspicious start to this campaign. She has put few signs in very few yards, I have yet to see a mailer with her face on it and, perhaps most damningly, Washington was the only candidate who failed to submit a response to the Post-Dispatch.… Continue reading Sandy Washington.
ou can tell Bob Sears has been here before. Serving on the council from 2010 to 2018 before being term-limited out, unlike everyone else I've written on so far, Sears has a real life voting record to run on. That record, at least from an urbanist perspective, is decidedly mixed. In 2018 Sears joined four… Continue reading Bob Sears.
