What if St. Louis, MO moved at the speed of Twitter?
By Travis Brown, Lobbyist This weekend, Twitter co-founder and St. Louis, MO native Jack Dorsey, (known to most as @Jack) returned home to visit the Central West End neighborhood. By any accounts, his company’s exponential growth as a micro-blogging communications platform has been astounding in the last two years. For a better summary of Jack Dorsey’s personal views about Twitter, IWantMedia.com has a great 2008 article that breaks it down nicely. For a CEO whose hand is on the pulse of an important grassroots communication tool (check out U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill’s updates at: @clairecmc for recent news), new ideas ...
How Missouri Lobbyists Can Use All for Good
By Travis Brown This week, First Lady Michelle Obama launched awareness for serve.gov. Thanks to the Google volunteer programmers that work 20% of their time on free form ideas, there’s now a new website rolled out called: www.allforgood.org (makes you wonder what the Microsoft Bing executives are doing to compete too, doesn’t it?). An important role of a state or federal lobbyist can be sharing ways to expand charity in targeted areas, preferably around client priorities and/or the legislative districts of your colleagues in public service. That used to mean that your time and/or pro bono advocacy was limited ...
Missouri Cares to Make It Right: Haunted by Waters
By Travis H. Brown Long before I ever pondered the blurred careers as lobbyist, fundraiser, and promoter, I enjoyed my boyhood days on our family farm in Southeast Missouri. We grew up walking soybean fields, baling hay, and adjusting to the natural seasons along the ole man river, the Mississippi. I didn’t realize back then how much our lives ebbed and flowed due to the river’s edge. Nearly every other spring, at some high water mark, we had to move our machinery and equipment out of the fields for fear of rising flood waters. My mother, to this day, sees water as ...
House Budget Chairman, Allen Icet, Announces Bid For Missouri State Auditor
(St. Louis, MO) State Representative Allen Icet (R-Wildwood), Chairman of the House Budget Committee, announced today his intention to run for Missouri State Auditor. “After serious consideration with my family and trusted friends, it is my intention to seek the office of State Auditor in 2010,” Icet announced. “The Auditor is the top taxpayer advocate and watchdog in the state, responsible for rooting out waste, fraud and abuse of our tax dollars.” Icet has served on the powerful House Budget Committee since he was first elected to the state legislature in 2002. In 2005, Icet became Chairman of the House Budget Committee ...
RP: Sinquefields buy Bobby Fischer’s chess library
St. Louis Business Journal - June 11, 2009 Philanthropist millionaires Rex and Jeanne Sinquefield spent $61,000 to buy the chess library of the legendary Bobby Fischer, including notebooks he prepared for his 1972 World Championship match with Boris Spassky. The Sinquefields acquired the collection through San Francisco-based auction house, Bonhams and Butterfields. “I am thrilled to have this collection from arguably the greatest chess player in history," said Rex Sinquefield, founder and board president of the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis, in a statement. “I have been a lifelong fan of Bobby Fischer.” The reclusive Fischer died in 2008 at 64. ...
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House Budget Chairman, Allen Icet, Announces Bid For Missouri State Auditor
(St. Louis, MO) State Representative Allen Icet (R-Wildwood), Chairman of the House Budget Committee, announced today his intention to run for Missouri State Auditor. “After serious consideration with my family and trusted friends, it is my intention to seek the office of State Auditor in 2010,” Icet announced. “The Auditor is the top taxpayer... [Read more of this review]
Photos from the first 2 days of the 2009 US Chess Championship!The 2009 US Chess Championship is well under way at the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis. Yesterday, May 9th, 2009, concluded two exciting days of fantastic chess, and with the Fischer Memorial Prize still on the table for three players (Brooklyn’s Gata Kamsky – 2798, Illinois’s Yury Shulman – 2697, and New York’s... [Read more of this review]
Pelopidas Teams Join Chess Club to Paint Metro Bus for Arts in Transit
By Travis H. Brown, MBA The challenge was as bold as taking on a chess grand master inside the Chess Club & Scholastic Center of St. Louis. In less than three hours, can community leaders and volunteers paint an entire St. Louis Metro bus with the look, feel, and brand of the Chess Club’s fine work? First, we have to give credit where... [Read more of this review]
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