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The $325,015 question: Who bought the federal building?
Posted Wednesday, February 22, at 6:43 PM For a reporter, there's nothing worse than having an unanswered question. Especially if it's a big one. And that's what I have, as I sit here at the end of the day Wednesday, just a half hour or so from going home -- one big, fat unanswered question: Who bought the former federal building?...
Top federal building bidder hasn't backed out! At least not yet -- and there's really no reason to think he/she/it will, unless you firmly believe history is doomed to repeat itself. In a previous auction for the former federal building in Cape Girardeau, three bidders backed away from their offers for undisclosed reasons, two of them even forfeiting their $25,000 deposits...
Emerson votes for congressional pay freeze Nearly half the members of Congress are millionaires, so giving them raises with a national debt of more than $15 trillion probably doesn't make a lot of sense. At least it doesn't to U.S. Rep. Jo Ann Emerson, R-Cape Girardeau, who voted Wednesday in favor of a measure to prohibit a pay increase for members of Congress. The Cape Girardeau Republican has continued to vote against any such pay increases in the past...
State Dems to select redistricting nominees on Saturday The Missouri Democratic Party seems poised to select its nominees for the state senatorial commission by the end of the week. Mike Sanders, the state party chairman and executive of Jackson COunty, released a statement today making the announcement...
GOP, Dems hurrying to ready nominees for redistricting panel The Missouri Supreme Court's ruling on Tuesday to throw out redrawn state Senate district maps has the state's two major political parties scurrying to restart the process that ultimately took most of last year to complete the first time. And there's not a lot of time left -- candidate filings for the 2012 elections are set to begin Feb. 28...
More from Wallingford, Swan The two big political announcements Monday came from Rep. Wayne Wallingford and Cape Girardeau City Council member Kathy Swan. Wallingford's news that he intends to run for the Missouri Senate was expected -- he'd been contemplating the move ever since Rep. Ellen Brandom opted last month to run for the 25th District in Sikeston instead of the newly redrawn 3rd District, which includes Cape Girardeau County...
Conservation agent to make presentation to deer committee tonight The deer management committee is holding its third meeting tonight at 7 p.m. at Cape Girardeau City Hall. The first meeting was basically a meet-and-greet. The second meeting last month involved nuisance abatement officer Ty Metzger's presentation about deer-related calls to the police department...
Animal control officer to talk to deer committee Tuesday Ty Metzger, the animal control officer with the Cape Girardeau Police Department, will be speaking to the new urban deer committee Tuesday night. The committee, which is formulating a recommendation on whether to allow bow hunting in the city limits, will hear Metzer discuss how he deals with the deer surplus...
Have an opinion about urban deer hunting? Cape officials want to hear it Do you have an opinion on this? I know you do. Maybe you think it's overkill and you can't stand the thought of hunters with bows and arrows hunting inside the city. Or maybe you believe it's it's just what the city needs to thin the herd of the growing number of deer that wander inside the city's limits wrecking landscapes and causing accidents...
Council appoints new members to three Cape advisory boards A few new faces will be filling some of Cape Girardeau's more influential commission and advisory boards. But some of the names should be familiar. On Monday, the Cape Girardeau City Council offered its thanks to Danny Essner and Charles Haubold. Essner served nine years on the city's Parks and Recreation Advisory Board and Haubold served more than 20 on the Planning and Zoning Commission...
Council topics tonight: Cape Mart, urban deer hunting Afternoon, folks. Your elected officials are going to be busy at the Cape Girardeau City Council meeting tonight. The overall meeting meeting doesn't look to be an especially long one, but -- between the study session and the 7 p.m. meeting -- a lot of hot topics are going to be discussed and voted on tonight...
City manager doesn't anticipate Commander eviction today As of today, Oct. 6, the 10 days are up. After nearly four years of not paying a nickel in rent, Commander Premier Aircraft Corp. can be forcibly removed from a city-owned hangar at the Cape Girardeau Regional Airport. But city manager Scott Meyer told me this morning that he doesn't anticipate it will happen today...
Arena Golf property owner asking city leaders for rezoning At first glance, it appears the owners of Arena Golf are facing a quandary more severe than a sandpit and more problematic than a swing that leaves you 20 yards from the fairway. And, if you're the type of person who likes to go to Cape Girardeau City Council meetings -- and who isn't? -- you will hear all about it on Monday night...
House budget chairman calls for termination of SynCare contract House Budget chairman Ryan Silvey, R-Kansas City, is calling for the "immediate termination" of the contract awarded to SynCare, LLC., for third-party assessment services. Silvey's office issued a news release this morning in response to a tense bipartisan inquiry that was held Wednesday in Jefferson City, Mo. ...
Emerson calls for public comment on Birds Point repair Jo Ann Emerson has been beating the drum about Birds Point since before they even pushed the button. The Cape Girardeau Republican urged the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers not to do it. Then, when it did it anyway, she has asked them to repair it all the way to 62.5 feet. That was how high it was before the corp made the three breaches back in May...
New ward boundaries take effect Friday It's 2011. Do you know what ward you live in? If you're a Cape Girardeau resident, that may have changed. The ward map, which is being adjusted to more accurately reflect new U.S. census data, took effect Friday. The city charter requires that the boundaries of Cape Girardeau's six wards be reconfigured every 10 years, giving the city council the task of making sure the wards each have about the same number of residents...
Kinder still mum on campaign plans Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder is still keeping quiet about his intentions to run for the state's top job. In an interview with the Springfield News-Leader Wednesday, he said elections are too long, which the article says gives possible insight into why he hasn't announced whether he plans to run for governor...
Council to hear final public input tally for Broadway corridor options Monday Do you like option one or option two? If you like the first option, you're apparently in the minority. From Cape Girardeau's city staff to the chairman of the city's Historic Preservation Commission, most who have weighed in like option two for the new Broadway corridor project. For the uninitiated, that's the more contemporary design that removes parking from the north side of the street from Pacific to Water streets to make way for a 15-foot-wide sidewalk to create a "pedestrian promenade."...
An open letter to Red Shirt Dr. Mr. Shirt, I'm addressing this letter to you, Mr. Shirt -- may I call you Red? -- in the hope you'll share its message with your friends. Folks like French Fries. Red Devil. Mobushwacker. Dr. Mustache. Or, as I like to refer to you, the League of Extraordinarily Ignorant Commenters...
Domestic partnerships There's an old joke about allowing gays to get married. The punch line goes something like this: "Why shouldn't they be as miserable as the rest of us?" Humor like that serves as a self-deprecating distraction for some, but it's a serious debate that has been waged for decades. At first it was an issue that popped up occasionally in a few states and has grown to a full-on nationwide controversy...
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Scott Moyers is the city government reporter for the Southeast Missourian. His journalism career began in 1996, after attending Southeast Missouri State University. He initially worked at the Southeast Missourian, covering crime and courts and later business. He also has worked as a city hall reporter at the Columbia Daily Tribune. He recently returned to the Missourian, after working in a public affairs job for the Missouri National Guard. In this blog, Scott will share the latest in city government news.
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Top federal building bidder hasn't backed out!
Emerson votes for congressional pay freeze
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