I’m at the U.S. Ice Sports Complex tonight, where I’ll be learning how to slide a big heavy rock down a sheet of ice.
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East St. Louis Government Cuts What?
Rev. Joseph Tracy said he’s tired of going to funerals. And now, he suspects he’ll be going to more of them.
“It’s open field day now,” said Tracy, the pastor of Straightway Baptist Church here. “The criminals are going to run wild.”
The pastor voiced his fear of a spike in crime on Friday at a raucous special City Council meeting at which East St. Louis Mayor Alvin Parks announced that the city will lay off 37 employees, including about one-third of its police officers.
In total, 19 of the city’s 62 police officers, 11 firefighters, four public works employees and three administrators will lose their job in the layoffs that take effect Sunday.
At this point, they might as well just build a wall around East St. Louis and be done with it. This is appalling.
There are lots of good people in East St. Louis who have tried very hard to improve the conditions there. It’s a shame they don’t have a government that supports those efforts adequately.
(via St. Louis Post-Dispatch.)
Westbrook In, Ludwick Out in 3-Team Deal
The Cardinals have acquired righthanded starting pitcher Jake Westbrook and cash considerations from the Cleveland Indians in a three-team trade that sends right fielder Ryan Ludwick to the San Diego Padres. The Cardinals receive minor-league lefthander Nick Greenwood from the Padres.
I’m good with this. Jon Jay is looking like a great investment in the future of the Cardinals, which gives Ludwick less of a place with the team, and another pitcher isn’t a bad move.
Sounds like a good money deal, too.
(via St. Louis Post-Dispatch.)
First Family Ballgame
Abby’s Girl Scout troop was invited to group seats at a Cards game this past weekend, which included a walk around the warning track at the park. (The group seats were, as you would expect, very high up.) This is the first time any of the children were able to go to a game, and the first time Amanda and my parents had been to the new Busch Stadium.
Trapped in the Bauernhof
We took the family out to Grant’s Farm today and are currently stuck there on account of a small deluge:
Ryan Markel 