I attended the school board meeting on January 14 at Yeatman Middle School. The meeting made headlines for other reasons (fast forward the YouTube video to 2:33), but this large assemblage of principals has a lot to be proud of.
On January 15, I was in the basement of Oak Hill Presbyterian Church for a Tower Grove South Neighborhood Association meeting and captured this snapshot of peak retail politics in River City: Mayor Tishaura Jones at the mic, opposite Alderwoman Daniela Velázquez who recently introduced a city charter amendment that would shift the mayor’s authority to a non-elected city administrator, with TGSNA board member Dan Pearson in the middle, making a friendship bracelet.
Of the 12 school board candidates, I was the only one to file a January Quarterly Report with the Missouri Ethics Commission. It was due on January 15. I’m committed to transparency, ethics, and accurate accounting.
On January 15 and 16, I stopped by Commerce Bank on South Grand for what have become regular visits with Joey Reyes and Dave Barber. They put the “personal” in “personal banker.” They’ve been trying to get online banking set up on my candidate committee account since December 13. We’re going to crack the code eventually.
