On the latest episode of Politically Speaking, 漏 2024 外网天堂鈥檚 Jason Rosenbaum and Julie O鈥橠onoghue break down some of the week鈥檚 biggest stories.
To do that, Rosenbaum and O鈥橠onoghue enlisted the help of 漏 2024 外网天堂 colleagues Corinne Ruff and Kae Petrin. Ruff talked about the ongoing process of potentially getting a private operator to run St. Louis Lambert International Airport. And Petrin discussed Paul McKee鈥檚 bid to redevelop parts of north St. Louis.
The airport privatization effort has heated up in the past couple of weeks. For one thing, the city received responses for requests for qualifications from potential bidders. Eighteen companies ended up responding,
Ruff also talked about a controversy over a documentary "" Some members of the group looking into the privatization effort are raising sharp questions to Travis Brown, the lead consultant to the city鈥檚 Airport Advisory Working Group and the executive producer of the documentary. Brown has also been the go-to person for retired financier Rex Sinquefield鈥檚 political pursuits for years.
Here鈥檚 what else was discussed on the show:
- Ruff detailed where the airport privatization process is expected to go from here.
- O鈥橠onoghue discussed a Missouri House hearing looking more closely into whether to
- Petrin, Rosenbaum and O鈥橠onoghue talked about a St. Louis Post-Dispatch article on how Attorney General Eric Schmitt
- O鈥橠onoghue and Rosenbaum touched on Democrat Trish Gunby鈥檚 win in Missouri鈥檚 99th House District 鈥� and also detailed their favorite documentaries about elections. O鈥橠onoghue picked "The War Room" and "Street Fight." Rosenbaum suggested "" and
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