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SB in BH wrote: ↑

Jan 22, 2025

Auggie wrote: ↑

Jan 22, 2025

brianadler6545 wrote: ↑

Jan 22, 2025

1) I did take care my my own sidewalk, but presumably neighbors who are disabled cannot 
2) It has, several times, not been 0 degrees and has, at times, been above freezing in the last 15+ days
Look here's the thing you fail to grasp: public spaces in the city are being poorly maintained and there is a real lack of safety that results. It's not unreasonable that people care abou this.
It's truly insane that some folks fail to see something this long-lasting, this dangerous, as anything but a failure. That doesn't mean the whole administration is bad, or that the last several years have been bad, but this response was and continues to be bad. There have been multiple opportunities for things to be handled differently. 

Here's what you fail to grasp. I live in the city and have been driving and walking around the city for the last 2 weeks. Drove to worm the morning of both day 1 and 2 with 0 issue on the city's streets.

What you are saying us simply not reality for most people. And then not you specifically but others on here just keep making up different things to b**** about, such as "not ALL the lanes on my oversized road are plowed" or "my parking lane isn't plowed" or "they pushed snow up on the sidewalk".

I live in Holly Hills. My neighborhood and the adjacent neighborhoods (Southampton, Princeton Heights, Boulevard Heights, Patch, Carondelet) are still ice skating rinks on most side streets. I haven't ventured west of Hampton or North of Chippewa, so can't speak to those areas. 

I'm glad you haven't encountered any problems and I understand your frustration with the haters. However, if your attitude is representative of the Mayor and her supporters, then "the greatest mayor in a century" will be a one-termer.

Just lie after lie after lie. I live in Princeton Heights and drive through Southampton on my way to and from work are school. I can confirm, the streets are not "ice skating rinks".

Thank for trying tho.

Auggie wrote: ↑

Jan 22, 2025

SB in BH wrote: ↑

Jan 22, 2025

Auggie wrote: ↑

Jan 22, 2025

Here's what you fail to grasp. I live in the city and have been driving and walking around the city for the last 2 weeks. Drove to worm the morning of both day 1 and 2 with 0 issue on the city's streets.

What you are saying us simply not reality for most people. And then not you specifically but others on here just keep making up different things to b**** about, such as "not ALL the lanes on my oversized road are plowed" or "my parking lane isn't plowed" or "they pushed snow up on the sidewalk".

I live in Holly Hills. My neighborhood and the adjacent neighborhoods (Southampton, Princeton Heights, Boulevard Heights, Patch, Carondelet) are still ice skating rinks on most side streets. I haven't ventured west of Hampton or North of Chippewa, so can't speak to those areas. 

I'm glad you haven't encountered any problems and I understand your frustration with the haters. However, if your attitude is representative of the Mayor and her supporters, then "the greatest mayor in a century" will be a one-termer.

Just lie after lie after lie. I live in Princeton Heights and drive through Southampton on my way to and from work are school. I can confirm, the streets are not "ice skating rinks".

Thank for trying tho.

Auggie do you realize that you might not be driving every side street and that people aren't likely to be lying? I posted my side street earlier on the other thread. There is no reason for you to be so disparaging of other peoples' experiences with many roads that are, like mine, obviously still icy. I wish you were right but this is insane lol

brianadler6545 wrote: ↑

Jan 22, 2025

Auggie wrote: ↑

Jan 22, 2025

SB in BH wrote: ↑

Jan 22, 2025

I live in Holly Hills. My neighborhood and the adjacent neighborhoods (Southampton, Princeton Heights, Boulevard Heights, Patch, Carondelet) are still ice skating rinks on most side streets. I haven't ventured west of Hampton or North of Chippewa, so can't speak to those areas. 

I'm glad you haven't encountered any problems and I understand your frustration with the haters. However, if your attitude is representative of the Mayor and her supporters, then "the greatest mayor in a century" will be a one-termer.

Just lie after lie after lie. I live in Princeton Heights and drive through Southampton on my way to and from work are school. I can confirm, the streets are not "ice skating rinks".

Thank for trying tho.

Auggie do you realize that you might not be driving every side street and that people aren't likely to be lying? I posted my side street earlier on the other thread. There is no reason for you to be so disparaging of other peoples' experiences with many roads that are, like mine, obviously still icy. I wish you were right but this is insane lol

I drive plenty of sidestreets lol. You mentioned my neighborhood as one that has side streets that are "ice rinks". That's a flat out lie and I called you out on it.

Money 40 days out

Cash on hand between campaign and pac

Jones: $316,000
Spencer: $243,000


Of note: Jones’ pac got $5,000 from Doug Albrecht, who is the founder of the St.Louis Police Foundation (and a very well off businessman)

Auggie wrote: ↑

Jan 22, 2025

brianadler6545 wrote: ↑

Jan 22, 2025

Auggie wrote: ↑

Jan 22, 2025

Just lie after lie after lie. I live in Princeton Heights and drive through Southampton on my way to and from work are school. I can confirm, the streets are not "ice skating rinks".

Thank for trying tho.

Auggie do you realize that you might not be driving every side street and that people aren't likely to be lying? I posted my side street earlier on the other thread. There is no reason for you to be so disparaging of other peoples' experiences with many roads that are, like mine, obviously still icy. I wish you were right but this is insane lol

I drive plenty of sidestreets lol. You mentioned my neighborhood as one that has side streets that are "ice rinks". That's a flat out lie and I called you out on it.

I did not say anything about your neighborhood. Maybe someone else did. So maybe you called someone else out but again, I think you're confused. I shared a picture earlier of my street which is, in fact, an ice rink, and we are not in the same neighborhood.

Auggie’s relentless downplaying is still less annoying than all the people screaming into the ether about what should have been done.

We just experienced a once in two decades event. People keep comparing this to 2013-14. This is way ***** worse.

It would be a massive waste of resources and manpower to develop a snow plowing system and accumulate the equipment to effectively implement it on par with a Great Lakes City (which is basically what people are demanding).

And had the city plowed all the side streets everyone would be b*tching about the damage to their cars and the b*tching would be magnitudes worse.

Forecast is 50 and sunny next week. Enjoy.

So it's a once in a two decade weather event, but not serious enough for the mayor to change her travel plans or even bother to calll a news conference.

Ya all gotta pick one or the other.

I believe she is holding daily news conferences.

And why does she need to cancel trips? Just so you can gripe at her? It’s not like she’s going to operate a plow. Get a grip.

StL averages 8” of snow accumulation per year. I’m sorry we had a crazy fluke. Get over it. We’re not going to adopt a Milwaukee level snow removal system.

^I'm talking perception here. If her campaign doesn't care about that I guess I don't either

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JaneJacobsGhost wrote:I believe she is holding daily news conferences.

And why does she need to cancel trips? Just so you can gripe at her? It’s not like she’s going to operate a plow. Get a grip.

StL averages 8” of snow accumulation per year. I’m sorry we had a crazy fluke. Get over it. We’re not going to adopt a Milwaukee level snow removal system.

St.Louis averages about 15.5” of snow per year so we’re right at normal if we don’t receive anymore snow the rest of this winter season


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You’re correct. Bad source on my part. But that’s still about 1/3 of Milwaukee, 2/5 of Chicago and Detroit. Not to mention snow that does accumulate in StL is often gone on its own in a few days.

Does anyone here really want the city streets department to divert funds and resources away from things like paving and pot holes in favor of snow removal?

I admit I'm not on Instagram much so maybe I missed some of the mayor's communicae regarding snow removal.

I am on Facebook fairly regularly and I noticed she was looking for canvassers last weekend while many streets were still icy and she was in Washington DC.

Seems a little tone deaf to me (and I noticed not too many positive comments here) but what do I know

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/18LXqNKWuH/

JaneJacobsGhost wrote: ↑

Jan 23, 2025

You’re correct. Bad source on my part. But that’s still about 1/3 of Milwaukee, 2/5 of Chicago and Detroit. Not to mention snow that does accumulate in StL is often gone on its own in a few days.

Does anyone here really want the city streets department to divert funds and resources away from things like paving and pot holes in favor of snow removal?

We live in the Midwest.  These types of events should be expected and planned for.  

Up next in the 2029 mayoral election:

"Whay are we spending so much money on snow removal when we haven't gotten major snow in years?"

STLAPTS wrote: ↑

Jan 23, 2025

We live in the Midwest.  These types of events should be expected and planned for.  

It isn't as simple as that - there are other things to spend money on.

How much money should the city be spending on upgrading all of our infrastructure to withstand a 7.0 earthquake? We live near enough to the New Madrid fault that that type of event should be expected and planned for ...

STLAPTS wrote: ↑

Jan 23, 2025

JaneJacobsGhost wrote: ↑

Jan 23, 2025

You’re correct. Bad source on my part. But that’s still about 1/3 of Milwaukee, 2/5 of Chicago and Detroit. Not to mention snow that does accumulate in StL is often gone on its own in a few days.

Does anyone here really want the city streets department to divert funds and resources away from things like paving and pot holes in favor of snow removal?

We live in the Midwest.  These types of events should be expected and planned for.  

We live at the very bottom of the Midwest where these types of events are infrequent and of small magnitude. Our planning is a reflection of that reality.

2025 March Citywide and Aldermen elections Fundraising

With fewer than 40 days until the March primary, here's a snapshot of the financial standings for citywide and aldermanic races. In this election, the top two vote-getters from each race will proceed to the April general election, even if a race features only two candidates. Notably, in the last election cycle, one candidate won in March but ultimately lost in the April contest.

Since the reduction of wards from 28 to 14, there appears to be a decline in interest in aldermanic races. The reasons for this remain unclear to me. This cycle, only one ward could be competitive—Ward 1. The race is a rematch of the close contest from two years ago, where Schweitzer narrowly defeated Kirchner. However, heading into the final six weeks, Schweitzer holds a significant financial advantage, with a 6-to-1 lead in campaign funds. This election is for a full four-year term (compared to the shortened two-year term for odd-numbered wards after redistricting in 2023), I don't know if the race will be as close as it was last time but it's really the only one that could.

Additional Notes:

The largest donor to Jones’ campaign is the Plumbers and Pipefitters Local 562, contributing $10,000.

Spencer received a $10,000 donation from David Kemper, CEO of Commerce Bank.


These numbers come from the Missouri Election Commission, candidates were required to file a 40 day before election report. Next one that will give us a better snapshot is the 8 day before election report

JaneJacobsGhost wrote: ↑

Jan 23, 2025

STLAPTS wrote: ↑

Jan 23, 2025

JaneJacobsGhost wrote: ↑

Jan 23, 2025

You’re correct. Bad source on my part. But that’s still about 1/3 of Milwaukee, 2/5 of Chicago and Detroit. Not to mention snow that does accumulate in StL is often gone on its own in a few days.

Does anyone here really want the city streets department to divert funds and resources away from things like paving and pot holes in favor of snow removal?

We live in the Midwest.  These types of events should be expected and planned for.  

We live at the very bottom of the Midwest where these types of events are infrequent and of small magnitude. Our planning is a reflection of that reality.

Exactly, there are just other pressing needs than bolstering snow removal. Typically the snow falls only a couple times a year then melts within a couple days. This whole past 20 days has been a rare event that will only get rarer as the planet continues to heat. This whole 20 days sucked, but I wouldn't say that we could have done that much better, even if we performed to our full snow clearing potential. I wouldn't be surprised if Jones faces a much tighter race, or outright loses because of this storm. I was probably voting for Spencer anyways, but TJ doesn't deserve 90% of the flak she is getting for this storm.

GoHarvOrGoHome wrote: ↑

Jan 24, 2025

JaneJacobsGhost wrote: ↑

Jan 23, 2025

STLAPTS wrote: ↑

Jan 23, 2025

We live in the Midwest.  These types of events should be expected and planned for.  

We live at the very bottom of the Midwest where these types of events are infrequent and of small magnitude. Our planning is a reflection of that reality.

Exactly, there are just other pressing needs than bolstering snow removal. Typically the snow falls only a couple times a year then melts within a couple days. This whole past 20 days has been a rare event that will only get rarer as the planet continues to heat. This whole 20 days sucked, but I wouldn't say that we could have done that much better, even if we performed to our full snow clearing potential. I wouldn't be surprised if Jones faces a much tighter race, or outright loses because of this storm. I was probably voting for Spencer anyways, but TJ doesn't deserve 90% of the flak she is getting for this storm.

It is not about budgets but about planning. The poor response unfolded as it did not because of lack of funds but lack of planning and we don't need a large budget to deal with what snow we get here. They started hiring private crews which could have been part of the plan immediately when they saw that sleet is coming and everything will freeze by the time they get to neighborhoods or tier 2-3 priorities. 

What a strange interview by Spencer (is she always a nervous wrack?)




She goes after a coalition of parents, childcare providers and city employees for wanting $30m out of $300m for childcare for city employees. I testified at HUDZ yesterday about an importance of this as a benefit and a recruiting tool for city employees. We can’t compete on pay with private
Sector but we can offer a childcare stipend. In my testimony I gave an example of building permit
Reviewers and how we are down to 1 from 5. And 5 were old timers that started in the 1980s. Today you can get a mechanical or electrical engineer or architect at city salaries but you may be able to grab a few if childcare is something they don’t have to worry about. Just a bizarre attack from her, a single mom no less

Ehh come on. I didn’t see her behavior in this interview as strange or unusual at all. I also don’t see how she’s “going after” anyone.

She appears to disagree with the childcare aspect of the spend. Fair debate to have. Let’s focus on that.

Ok if it's a fair debate then let's hear it. Why is childcare a bad thing to spend Rams settlement money on?

PeterXCV wrote: ↑

Jan 24, 2025

Ok if it's a fair debate then let's hear it. Why is childcare a bad thing to spend Rams settlement money on?

Because in my opinion investing in downtown infrastructure is critical to make it attractive to attract business and people which in turn will increase the tax revenue which would then can be used for services as for example childcare. Childcare for city employees would help with retention of such employees but I don't see the lack of full staffing of the city as the most important issue. Given the population decrease I actually believe the city should learn to live with less staff and revenue. 

PeterXCV wrote:Ok if it's a fair debate then let's hear it. Why is childcare a bad thing to spend Rams settlement money on?

I didn’t say it was a bad thing. Only that it’s fair to debate the best way to spend $30M.

Just curious, do we know what percent of city workers have children?  How does this help those workers without children?  What are we doing to recruit those without?