Last Thursday Kirkwood agreed to its second consolidation of services with a neighboring municipality in the past two months. These examples were small and I doubt anyone will really notice anything has changed but I do think they're worth celebrating. I also think they offer some important insight for how bigger, more significant consolidation can… Continue reading Kirkwood Sets the Example on Consolidation
Story Update (02/11/2020) On January 26th, 2020, the story below was finalized and published. Today, sixteen days after that original story, things have continued to evolve. The predicted minimum wage hike to $15 for county employees was put into motion and the biggest question marks regarding the future of the St. Louis County Police Department,… Continue reading The State of the County
Kirkwood Gadfly often, almost exclusively, focuses on hypotheticals and things that should happen rather than things that actually are happening. That's for a variety of reasons I guess but mostly its because I don't know anything more than you do. I'm really not sure how other people that are good at this, buildingstlnews.com and nextstl.com,… Continue reading The Madison: A Mid-Summer’s Update
The city-county question has dominated local discussion of fragmentation and subsequent consolidation. Recently, the implications of this conversation has come into more focus. The most likely route to consolidation between the city and county is for St. Louis City to re enter St. Louis County as its 89th municipality [Editors note: I've had to reduce… Continue reading Potential Partners in the Consolidation Game
