From the May 29, 2008 St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Thank you for keeping faith in Charlie Dooley's Trash District plan. The bid to pick up trash in South St. Louis County came in at a rate of $11.31 for one trash pick up and one recycling pick up per week, and twice yearly bulk pickup. For me this is about half the price I was paying with the added bonus of helping the environment through recycling, saving landfill space and creating jobs!
I like my new big black container.
Friday, May 30, 2008
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Murder Threats in Mehlville?
Obviously, things are getting hotter with the Mehlville Fire District's inquisition!
The Post Dispatch had an article in today's Metro Section.The board started this investigation April 22nd. Individual firefighters have been asked if the had knowledge about some murder threats. I've got some questions for the fire board. If there are some allegations about serious crimes, shouldn't you call the county police or maybe the federal prosecutor's office. Is Catherine Hanaway too busy to take your call? Why are the taxpayers paying some fly by night investigative firm when we have these county and federal professionals who should be providing this service for free?
The Post Dispatch had an article in today's Metro Section.The board started this investigation April 22nd. Individual firefighters have been asked if the had knowledge about some murder threats. I've got some questions for the fire board. If there are some allegations about serious crimes, shouldn't you call the county police or maybe the federal prosecutor's office. Is Catherine Hanaway too busy to take your call? Why are the taxpayers paying some fly by night investigative firm when we have these county and federal professionals who should be providing this service for free?
Call Newspapers is Back in Court Again
In a hearing this morning, the Bill Milligan decided he'd rather go to court than pay his debts. Court has been set for July 22nd at 10 am.
This should be fun!
21st Judicial Circuit (St. Louis County)
2107AC-29218 - PELARIOUS INC A CORP V CONCORD PUBLICATIONS
This information is provided as a service and is not considered an official court record. If an event is continued or cancelled it will not appear on this calendar.
Displaying 1 thru 1 of 1 scheduled hearings and trials returned for case 2107AC-29218.
TUESDAY, MAY 27, 2008
Judge/Commissioner
Time
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Setting
Event
PATRICK CLIFFORD
9:00 AM
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Hearing
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Location:DIVISION 39 St Louis County
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This should be fun!
21st Judicial Circuit (St. Louis County)
2107AC-29218 - PELARIOUS INC A CORP V CONCORD PUBLICATIONS
This information is provided as a service and is not considered an official court record. If an event is continued or cancelled it will not appear on this calendar.
Displaying 1 thru 1 of 1 scheduled hearings and trials returned for case 2107AC-29218.
TUESDAY, MAY 27, 2008
Judge/Commissioner
Time
Day
Setting
Event
PATRICK CLIFFORD
9:00 AM
1 OF 1
Hearing
Event Text:
Location:DIVISION 39 St Louis County
Displaying 1 thru 1 of 1 scheduled hearings and trials returned for case 2107AC-29218.
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Diehl vs Fred Weber, Inc. 22052-07589
Perhaps the biggest story in South County over the last ten years was the legal battle between Tom Diehl and Fred Weber, Inc.
For those who were living elsewhere, let me summarize the case.
Fred Weber wanted to put a trash transfer station near Diehl’s house. Diehl joined with others to oppose the station. Diehl distributed fliers calling Weber a trash terrorist. Weber sued Diehl for defamation. Weber was seen as a bully in this David and Goliath battle. Weber was not successful in their lawsuit.Diehl’s fundraising business was apparently failing during this period. Diehl filed a lawsuit on 7/25/05 alleging that Weber hurt his reputation and that hurt his business. Diehl ran for the school board in the spring of 2006 with campaign materials citing his business experience and his ability to stand up to Weber. Diehl was elected with the most votes out of six candidates. A story appeared in the Call several months after the election. Below is the current status of the case. For those who followed the first battle, you might want to follow this one, but I would't bother looking for it in the Call.
05/19/2008
Docket Entry:
Order
Text:
PLAINTIFF GRANTED UNTIL JUNE 2, 2008 TO FILE RESPONSE TO DEFENDANT'S MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT. DEFENDANT'S COUNSEL CONSENTS. SO ORDERED: MICHAEL B. CALVIN
Update 6/4/8
06/03/2008
Docket Entry:
Memorandum Filed
Text:
Plaintifff granted leave to file out of time, their responsive pleadings in opposition to defendant's Motion for Summary Judgment. Defendant's cereusel has cerseuted to leave. So Ordered - Judge Thomas C. Grady
Docket Entry:
Memorandum Filed
Text:
Come now plaintiffs and file herewith underseal their Response to FWI's Statement of Uncontroverted Material Facts and Memorandum in Opposition to FWI's Motion for Summary Judgment.
Filing Party:
QUINLAN , MICHAEL D
For those who were living elsewhere, let me summarize the case.
Fred Weber wanted to put a trash transfer station near Diehl’s house. Diehl joined with others to oppose the station. Diehl distributed fliers calling Weber a trash terrorist. Weber sued Diehl for defamation. Weber was seen as a bully in this David and Goliath battle. Weber was not successful in their lawsuit.Diehl’s fundraising business was apparently failing during this period. Diehl filed a lawsuit on 7/25/05 alleging that Weber hurt his reputation and that hurt his business. Diehl ran for the school board in the spring of 2006 with campaign materials citing his business experience and his ability to stand up to Weber. Diehl was elected with the most votes out of six candidates. A story appeared in the Call several months after the election. Below is the current status of the case. For those who followed the first battle, you might want to follow this one, but I would't bother looking for it in the Call.
05/19/2008
Docket Entry:
Order
Text:
PLAINTIFF GRANTED UNTIL JUNE 2, 2008 TO FILE RESPONSE TO DEFENDANT'S MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT. DEFENDANT'S COUNSEL CONSENTS. SO ORDERED: MICHAEL B. CALVIN
Update 6/4/8
06/03/2008
Docket Entry:
Memorandum Filed
Text:
Plaintifff granted leave to file out of time, their responsive pleadings in opposition to defendant's Motion for Summary Judgment. Defendant's cereusel has cerseuted to leave. So Ordered - Judge Thomas C. Grady
Docket Entry:
Memorandum Filed
Text:
Come now plaintiffs and file herewith underseal their Response to FWI's Statement of Uncontroverted Material Facts and Memorandum in Opposition to FWI's Motion for Summary Judgment.
Filing Party:
QUINLAN , MICHAEL D
Monday, May 19, 2008
Saturday, May 17, 2008
Hoax Fooled Call's Cub Reporter
From the Daily Egyption:
A former editor's apology: When I first heard last week that Dan Kennings may not be real, I felt like I'd been kicked in the stomach. I also remembered two stories I wrote in the spring of 2004 for the DAILY EGYPTIAN. I thought if what the Chicago Tribune and the DE are saying is true, then I can't guarantee that these two stories I wrote are 100 percent correct. I guess you could say I was duped, too. And I want everyone to know. By the time both of these stories ran, the DE had published numerous Kodee Kennings columns for almost a year. Her opinion columns had become so much a part of the newspaper and she was loved by so many people that I never even considered the possibility that her situation may not be true. I don't think anyone else at the DE did either. Sad to say, if Jaimie Reynolds had never "killed off" the character of Dan Kennings, I don't believe anyone would have ever investigated the matter. I was doing a story based on the one-year anniversary of the U.S. war with Iraq. I had interviewed some members of the Southern Illinois Peace Coalition at the Carbondale town square, and I wanted to get some input from some soldiers to widen the story's angle. I figured it would be only half the truth if all I did was talk to protesters. I told who I thought was "Colleen Hastings" that I was interested in interviewing some of the guys in Dan's unit of the 101st Airborne in Fort Campbell, Ky. She told me she'd be glad to help. She also said that because of their busy training schedules at the base, I wouldn't be able to contact any of these soldiers through the base's land lines. So, she arranged for them to call me at the DAILY EGYPTIAN. The phone rang, and it was the voice that I had come to know as Dan Kennings. I told him I couldn't use him in the story because I felt like I knew him and his daughter, so he passed the phone around to at least three other guys. They all gave their names and ranks, and I did phone interviews with each of them. It certainly wasn't the first phone interview I ever gave, so I didn't think there was anything weird about it. Besides, I'd never had any prior knowledge of how to contact people at military bases and I was clearly unfamiliar altogether with the whole military lifestyle. I suppose my unfamiliarity was something that Jaimie Reynolds preyed on. I took these interviews and a separate phone interview I also did with a woman who I thought was the wife of one of these soldiers and put them into the story. I also used some quotes from the soldier's wife in a follow-up story. Looking back on it, it was a totally stupid interviewing method on my part ˘ definitely something I would not do today. I thought I could trust "Colleen." We all did. I never heard one person say otherwise. She just seemed like too nice of a person to orchestrate something this evil. Who would believe that hours and hours of phone conversation with Kodee was actually someone else? I never meant to to intentionally deceive anybody. I thought everything I was doing was accurate. I'm sorry to the readers of the DE that I wrote two stories that are probably not true. It certainly wasn't done intentionally. I always try to tell the truth in my stories. But I guess that's the reality of any college newspaper. You're in college. You're still learning. I know it sounds cold to say, but in journalism, it's healthy not to trust anyone. The DE and I learned the hard way.
Burke Wasson, a 2004 SIUC graduate, was the DAILY EGYPTIAN's editor-in-chief in the summer of 2004.
BLOG editor's note: I had a request for some info about the Call's youngest incompetent writer so I decided to repeat this from July 2007.
A former editor's apology: When I first heard last week that Dan Kennings may not be real, I felt like I'd been kicked in the stomach. I also remembered two stories I wrote in the spring of 2004 for the DAILY EGYPTIAN. I thought if what the Chicago Tribune and the DE are saying is true, then I can't guarantee that these two stories I wrote are 100 percent correct. I guess you could say I was duped, too. And I want everyone to know. By the time both of these stories ran, the DE had published numerous Kodee Kennings columns for almost a year. Her opinion columns had become so much a part of the newspaper and she was loved by so many people that I never even considered the possibility that her situation may not be true. I don't think anyone else at the DE did either. Sad to say, if Jaimie Reynolds had never "killed off" the character of Dan Kennings, I don't believe anyone would have ever investigated the matter. I was doing a story based on the one-year anniversary of the U.S. war with Iraq. I had interviewed some members of the Southern Illinois Peace Coalition at the Carbondale town square, and I wanted to get some input from some soldiers to widen the story's angle. I figured it would be only half the truth if all I did was talk to protesters. I told who I thought was "Colleen Hastings" that I was interested in interviewing some of the guys in Dan's unit of the 101st Airborne in Fort Campbell, Ky. She told me she'd be glad to help. She also said that because of their busy training schedules at the base, I wouldn't be able to contact any of these soldiers through the base's land lines. So, she arranged for them to call me at the DAILY EGYPTIAN. The phone rang, and it was the voice that I had come to know as Dan Kennings. I told him I couldn't use him in the story because I felt like I knew him and his daughter, so he passed the phone around to at least three other guys. They all gave their names and ranks, and I did phone interviews with each of them. It certainly wasn't the first phone interview I ever gave, so I didn't think there was anything weird about it. Besides, I'd never had any prior knowledge of how to contact people at military bases and I was clearly unfamiliar altogether with the whole military lifestyle. I suppose my unfamiliarity was something that Jaimie Reynolds preyed on. I took these interviews and a separate phone interview I also did with a woman who I thought was the wife of one of these soldiers and put them into the story. I also used some quotes from the soldier's wife in a follow-up story. Looking back on it, it was a totally stupid interviewing method on my part ˘ definitely something I would not do today. I thought I could trust "Colleen." We all did. I never heard one person say otherwise. She just seemed like too nice of a person to orchestrate something this evil. Who would believe that hours and hours of phone conversation with Kodee was actually someone else? I never meant to to intentionally deceive anybody. I thought everything I was doing was accurate. I'm sorry to the readers of the DE that I wrote two stories that are probably not true. It certainly wasn't done intentionally. I always try to tell the truth in my stories. But I guess that's the reality of any college newspaper. You're in college. You're still learning. I know it sounds cold to say, but in journalism, it's healthy not to trust anyone. The DE and I learned the hard way.
Burke Wasson, a 2004 SIUC graduate, was the DAILY EGYPTIAN's editor-in-chief in the summer of 2004.
BLOG editor's note: I had a request for some info about the Call's youngest incompetent writer so I decided to repeat this from July 2007.
Friday, May 16, 2008
From Mike Heins: Thanks Again
Just when I thought I was having fun, things got better. Someone has shared a little piece of Lemay history with me. It has to do with drugs, rock n roll and the Dry Dock. Can it get any better than this?
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