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Sherman A1's JournalSt. Louis Airport Privatization Working Group Fires Embattled Spokesman Douglass Petty
Douglass Petty, the communications manager of the St. Louis Airport Advisory Working Group, has been fired, according to sources close to the matter.
Petty sent an email Monday just after 7 p.m. with the subject line “Terminated As Of Now,” according to an email obtained by St. Louis Public Radio.
The Airport Advisory Working Group, which is exploring the idea of leasing St. Louis Lambert International Airport to a private operator, is expected to put out an announcement Wednesday regarding Petty.
The reason for Petty’s termination has not been released, however, last month Petty’s credibility came into question.
https://news.stlpublicradio.org/post/st-louis-airport-privatization-working-group-fires-embattled-spokesman-douglass-petty
Historian Patricia Cleary Digs Into The Long-Lost Mounds Of St. Louis
A multitude of truncated earthworks — more commonly known as mounds — once dotted the St. Louis landscape. For the ancient Mississippian people who constructed them many centuries ago, these structures were full of meaning and purpose.
The mounds also drew the interest of European newcomers to the region long after the mounds were built. But by the late 19th century, most of these sacred Native American places had been destroyed — the Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site in Collinsville, Illinois, being a significant exception.
On Monday’s St. Louis on the Air, host Sarah Fenske talked with Patricia Cleary, a St. Louis native who is currently working on a book about the mounds that she plans to publish leading up to Missouri’s bicentennial celebration of statehood in 2021. Cleary’s visit came in advance of her James Neal Primm Lecture at the Missouri History Museum, set for Monday evening.
Cleary discussed what she has described as “the life, death and aftermath” of St. Louis’ ancient mounds. Within St. Louis’ current city limits, only one of the mounds remains intact to this day.
https://news.stlpublicradio.org/post/historian-patricia-cleary-digs-long-lost-mounds-st-louis
Historian Patricia Cleary Digs Into The Long-Lost Mounds Of St. Louis
A multitude of truncated earthworks — more commonly known as mounds — once dotted the St. Louis landscape. For the ancient Mississippian people who constructed them many centuries ago, these structures were full of meaning and purpose.
The mounds also drew the interest of European newcomers to the region long after the mounds were built. But by the late 19th century, most of these sacred Native American places had been destroyed — the Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site in Collinsville, Illinois, being a significant exception.
On Monday’s St. Louis on the Air, host Sarah Fenske talked with Patricia Cleary, a St. Louis native who is currently working on a book about the mounds that she plans to publish leading up to Missouri’s bicentennial celebration of statehood in 2021. Cleary’s visit came in advance of her James Neal Primm Lecture at the Missouri History Museum, set for Monday evening.
Cleary discussed what she has described as “the life, death and aftermath” of St. Louis’ ancient mounds. Within St. Louis’ current city limits, only one of the mounds remains intact to this day.
https://news.stlpublicradio.org/post/historian-patricia-cleary-digs-long-lost-mounds-st-louis
From His Hometown, Gov. Parson Announces Bid For Second Term
Missouri Governor Mike Parson formally announced Sunday he’s running for a second term as the state's chief executive. This will be the first time he campaigns for that office because he ascended to the post after former governor Eric Greitens resigned last year amid scandal.
In his hometown of Bolivar, Parson officially announced his bid for the 2020 gubernatorial spot in front of a crowd of supporters who had gathered in the local high school.
“We believe that everyone should have the opportunity to pursue the American dream. If they are willing to work, that dream should never be out of reach for anyone, regardless of what their background is or where they come from. That’s why I feel the call to serve again,” Parson said.
Parson said if elected, he plans to boost the manufacturing sector, create policies to attract more jobs, and ensure that all Missourians have equal opportunity in education and training.
https://news.stlpublicradio.org/post/his-hometown-gov-parson-announces-bid-second-term
UMSL Researchers Seek To Better Understand Police Behavior In The Wake Of Ferguson Unrest
Former St. Louis Police Chief Sam Dotson first introduced the idea of the “Ferguson effect” in a 2014 column for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, when he wrote that the unrest in Ferguson following the death of Michael Brown had left officers afraid to enforce the law.
“The criminal element is feeling empowered,” he wrote.
National pundits soon picked up on the idea. They claimed that police feeling demoralized had led to a spike in crime.
University of Missouri-St. Louis researchers recently authored a study taking a look at whether attitudes after the unrest in Ferguson were indeed associated with a reduction in arrests for felonies and low-level offenses in the nearby city of St. Louis.
https://news.stlpublicradio.org/post/umsl-researchers-seek-better-understand-police-behavior-wake-ferguson-unrest
Stenger's Former Right-Hand Man Gets 15 Months In Prison For His Role In Pay-To-Play Scheme
William Miller, the chief of staff to disgraced former St. Louis County Executive Steve Stenger, was sentenced Friday to 15 months behind bars for working to make sure that a campaign donor to Stenger got a lobbying contract.
Miller pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting bribery, a felony, in May. The sentence handed down Friday by U.S. District Judge Rodney Sippel was at the low end of federal sentencing guidelines for the crime and in line with what prosecutors had sought. The maximum under the guidelines was 21 months. Miller’s attorneys wanted probation.
Miller will report to prison at a later date. In addition to the prison term, he will be on supervised release for three years. He has already surrendered his law license.
Sippel did not fine Miller, saying he did not consider it appropriate because of Miller’s family obligations and the fact he will not be employed for more than a year. But he declined Miller’s request for probation.
https://news.stlpublicradio.org/post/stengers-former-right-hand-man-gets-15-months-prison-his-role-pay-play-scheme
Family Of Miles Davis Celebrates Documentary And Restored East St. Louis Home
The first phase of a project to restore the childhood home of famed trumpeter Miles Davis in East St. Louis is now complete.
The House of Miles East St. Louis opened its doors in June 2018. The first phase included the creation of a Miles Davis museum, an art gallery and a classroom setting for musicians and children. The space, which includes concert posters and artifacts, is a fitting tribute to the jazz musician, his family and friends said this week.
“This is a beautiful homage or a beautiful contribution to what made Uncle Miles Davis, Miles Dewey Davis,” said Vince Wilburn Jr., the famed trumpeter’s nephew. “Can you picture him coming out of the house, going to school, spitting rice with his embouchure right down these streets where we’re standing? That’s amazing to me.”
Willburn, who played the drums in his uncle's band, visited the house Thursday with the trumpeter's son, Erin Davis, and his daughter Cheryl Davis. They arrived to attend the St. Louis release of "Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool," a documentary on Davis and his contributions to jazz and popular music.
https://news.stlpublicradio.org/post/family-miles-davis-celebrates-documentary-and-restored-east-st-louis-home
Andrew Yang on CBS This Morning 9/5/19
Andrew Yang on CBS This Morning 9/5/19
Missouri's H-2A Housing Inspections Missed Deficiencies For Years
Missouri’s process of inspecting migrant farmworkers’ housing is riddled with holes and easily abused, according to interviews and documents obtained by the Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting and the Columbia Missourian.
Last summer, the process led to an incident where more than 100 farmworkers who were in the U.S. legally on H-2A visas were forced to live in horrid conditions, work on empty stomachs and endure threats.
H-2A workers’ temporary legal status carries the promise of adequate housing, which the federal government leaves up to the states to ensure. But the inspection process, which all states are supposed to follow, doesn’t cover every place H-2A workers live and relies too much on the word of employers, who face little to no punishment for violations. And, in Missouri, the process has missed deficiencies for years that left workers in unsanitary housing.
The U.S. Department of Labor, which oversees the H-2A program, investigated the incident last summer in Kennett, Missouri, eventually suing the workers’ employer.
https://news.stlpublicradio.org/post/missouris-h-2a-housing-inspections-missed-deficiencies-years
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