The Jaco Report, Ep. 9: Aldermanic President Lewis Reed on changes needed in police department’s culture, city-county merger
In his first interview since winning the Democratic primary for a fourth term as President of the city’s Board of…
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Jaco: St. Louis is no longer a majority Black city. What’s next?
As black families who can afford to move continue to leave the North Side, and as younger, more affluent, college-educated…
Jaco: A toxic culture in black and blue
Detective Sergeant Heather Taylor is black, and a woman, and a cop, in that order. In her years on the…
The Jaco Report, Ep. 8: Abandoned buildings in north St. Louis — save them or tear them down?
Thousands of buildings in north St. Louis are either abandoned or are collapsing. What’s being done to either save them,…
Jaco: How free-market capitalism and racism wrecked St. Louis
The Municipal League of Metro St. Louis isn’t necessarily racist. But they represent a lot of people who are. One…
Jaco: St. Louis cop culture and the real national emergency
The real national emergency is 1,038 miles northeast of the Mexican border, near the corner of Oriole and Thekla, where…
Jaco: Trump’s Hallelujah Caucus scam
When Karl Marx said “Religion is the opiate of the masses,” he had the right idea and the wrong drug.…
The Jaco Report, Ep. 7: Mayor Lyda Krewson on police department scandals, the city-county merger and airport privatization
Despite a series of indictments, lawsuits, arrests, and the mysterious killing of one city police officer by another in an…
Jaco: When a racist symbol takes your paycheck
American conservatism since Reagan has been built on the Three R’s (well, four, if you count the Russians)—the rich, the…
Jaco: The Guns of St. Louis
The middle-aged guy riddled with bullets in an alley just off Wabada. The 58-year-old man slumped in a puddle of…
The Jaco Report, Ep. 6: Police Chief John Hayden on the recent series of scandals that have rocked the city police department
In his first interview since a series of scandals have rocked the St. Louis Police Department, Police Chief John Hayden…
The Jaco Report, Ep. 5: Dave Leipholtz from Better Together says city-county merger would benefit city residents
The Better Together plan that would unify St. Louis city and county into one metro-city of 1.3 million people would…
Jaco: Time for St. Louisans to stop and think
Stan Kroenke is a greedy, grasping, lying megalomaniac with the moral center of a Trump family member and the imperious…
The Jaco Report, Ep. 4: St. Louis County Prosecutor Wesley Bell says his focus is on reform, violent crimes
St. Louis County’s reform-minded new chief prosecutor says he has little interest in convening a new grand jury in the…
The weed business is coming to Missouri? Will minorities benefit?
Activists claim stringent requirements attached to Missouri’s new legal medical cannabis business mean poor, black communities the most affected by…
The Jaco Report, Ep. 3: Missouri’s first Cannabis Trade Show
Missouri’s first medical marijuana trade show and expo comes to Union Station in March, despite concerns that stringent state rules…