Don't Hate the Players, Hate the Game.™ Covering politics from St. Louis. Since 2002.
St. Louis, MO, USA
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Today from the archive (Feb. 6, 2008): St. Louis voters approved a half-cent sales tax to help balance the city budget, 55% to 45%. A snapshot of how the city funded itself that year.
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PubDef is @AntonioFrench’s 2005–2008 St. Louis political blog, restored in 2026 as an archive of citizen journalism: ward politics, school board, unedited meeting video, and the city’s public life. Start here → pubdef.net
From 2005 to 2008, @AntonioFrench documented St. Louis public life on PubDef: meetings, ward politics, school board, unedited. Restored in 2026: 1,456 stories and 500+ videos. pubdef.net
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On this day in 2007, PubDef was in Jefferson City as Alderman Charles Quincy Troupe said a state development credit could work for north St. Louis if the Board of Aldermen had to approve the plan first. Local control, on the record: pubdef.net/2007/08/21/troupe…
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Missouri’s Medicaid paperwork story is not new. April 16, 2007: PubDef covered the HealthNet replacement, and the warning it would add more people “just pushing papers around.” pubdef.net/2007/04/16/blunt-…
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Before livestreams, @AntonioFrench showed up to St. Louis meetings with a camera and published the same night. That’s PubDef, 2005–2008, restored. 1,456 stories: pubdef.net
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Sept. 18, 2007: BlogNetNews ranked PubDef No. 7 among Missouri political blogs. Citizen journalism, measured against the state. The post as it ran: pubdef.net/2007/09/18/pubdef…
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