Author: Don Corrigan

Pollster has eyes ‘wide open’ on Hartmann candidacy

By Don Corrigan Incumbency is almost insurmountable. That’s a truism in America and Missouri, according to Ken Warren, a political science professor at St. Louis University with decades of expertise on polling, democracy and politics. He’s not optimistic about Ray Hartmann’s chances in his quest to unseat U.S. Rep. Ann Wagner, R-Ballwin. Pollster Warren has

Riverfront Times founder steps into race for Congress in Missouri

By Don Corrigan Ray Hartmann often jested that he fought his way off his native “mean streets of Ladue” to become an alternative newspaper tycoon. He dropped that line after selling the Riverfront Times in 1988 to New Times Media.    Even after he sold the popular weekly after a quarter century of column writing and