If you would like to join with many other Missourians in discussing your opinion of growing deficits and rampant spending under both this administration and the previous one, you can go down to Kiener Plaza tonight at 6:30 PM to get your groove on. I made it to the previous one at the riverfront, but can’t make it tonight because of a board meeting. Otherwise, I would be there — and I don’t even drink tea.
Economy
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David Stokes
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About the Author
David Stokes
David Stokes is a St. Louis native and a graduate of Saint Louis University High School and Fairfield (Conn.) University. He spent six years as a political aide at the St. Louis County Council before joining the Show-Me Institute in 2007. Stokes was a policy analyst at the Show-Me Institute from 2007 to 2016. From 2016 through 2020 he was Executive Director of Great Rivers Habitat Alliance, where he led efforts to oppose harmful floodplain developments done with abusive tax subsidies. Stokes rejoined the Institute in early 2021 as the Director of Municipal Policy. He is a past president of the University City Library Board. He served on the St. Louis County 2010 Council Redistricting Commission and was the 2012 representative to the Electoral College from Missouri’s First Congressional District. He lives in University City with his wife and their three children.
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