Hugh's Worthless Blog

I just received an e-mail from a fellow school parent who wanted to show my results numbers to some other folks, and that made me want to see if the St. Louis Board of Elections had updated their result numbers from two weeks ago. They did, but the numbers are not fully complete yet. I wanted to see the township breakdown for the Ladue School District Proposition 1 voting results and they have most of the votes tabulated by township , but not all of them. The results so far are pretty interesting, though. Since the election ended it looks like they have collected a few hundred more votes since the polls closed, so now the overall total is 4754 Yes, 4255 No, still a 500 vote decision. But if you break it down by township numbers you again see how the votes vary from location to location:   TOWNSHIP Yes No % Yes Diff Clayton 1375 1840 42.77% -465 Creve Coeur 2013 1472 57.76% 541 Missouri River 346 4...

After a surprisingly heated and divisive election, I was relieved to see the Ladue School District Propostion 1 pass 53% to 47% (4,580 to 4,074).  The mailer above was something sent to me and all other student families via e-mail from our parents group (not directly versus postal mail) about actual mailers sent out by the opposing group, Take Back Ladue Schools . I received plenty of the bright yellow mailers which always spelled out exactly how much my taxes were going up, but I never received that one since I do not live in the city of Ladue even if I am just a few blocks from the city border (they probably just sent those to residents within the 63124 zip code.) I wondered if these rather divisive mailers helped their cause or hurt them. Following the article in the Ladue-Frontenac Patch , I personally do not think the mailers were "hateful and mean spirited and has racial, ethnic and religious overtones" as the article said, but I do think the tone may have hurt the...