Donnybrook
January 4, 2024
Season 2024 Episode 1 | 27m 47sVideo has Closed Captions
Charlie Brennan debates with Sarah Fenske, Bill McClellan, Alvin Reid, and Ray Hartmann.
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Season 2024 Episode 1 | 27m 47sVideo has Closed Captions
Charlie Brennan debates with Sarah Fenske, Bill McClellan, Alvin Reid, and Ray Hartmann.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship>> "DONNYBROOK" IS MADE POSSIBLE BY T THOMAS PATTERSON FOUNDATION AND THE MEMBERS OF NINE PBS.
>> THANK YOU FOR JOINING US FOR ANOTHER EDITION OF "DONN THIS IS OUR FIRST SHOW AND 38th YEAR.
IN 1987, THIS WEEK MARTIN DUGAN AND RICH COSTER AND MARK VITTER AND RAY HARTMANN AND BILL MCCLELLAN LAUNCHED THE SHOW.
WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT IT WOULD BE LASTING THIS LONG.
WE ARE THANKFUL FOR LET'S MEET THE PANELIST STARTING WITH SARAH FENSKE, EXECUTIVE EDITOR OF THE RIVERFRONT TIMES AND SISTER PUBLICATIONS.
SARAH IS SITTING IN FOR WENDY WIESE, AND BILL MCCLELLAN.
AND RAY HARTMANN, YOU CAN FIND IT ON SUBSTACK.
FOUNDER OF THE RIVERFRON AND ST. LOUIS AMERICAN, AL REID.
BROADCAST BECAUSE WE LOST KEVIN JONES, THE CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER OF THE ST. LOUIS AMERICAN.
MISSOURI PRESS ASSOCIATION.
OUR CONDOLENCES WI AMERICAN TEAM.
>> VERY SOMBER DAY.
A LITTLE SMILE TONIGHT BUT I'M REALLY SAD.
KEVIN WAS A TREMEN TREMENDOUS FAMILY MAN, HELPED TAKE THE ST. LOUIS AMERICAN TO PLACES I DON'T THINK MANY OF US REALLY COULD HAVE BELIEVED IT WOUL TOTAL TEAM EVER WITH THE DR. AND I OFTEN TOLD HIM.
I SAID YOU ARE THE ONLY NEWSPAPER AD GUY I REALLY EVER LIKED.
COLORS, I AM WEARING BLACK AND GOLD BECAUSE KEVIN WAS A PROUD MISSOURI TIGER AND GOT TO SEE HIS GUYS WIN THE C KEVIN, I ALREADY MISS YOU.
>> I WOULD ADD, YOU WELL, AND I WOULD ADD I KNEW HIM LESS THAN WELL BUT I KNEW HIM PROFESSIONALLY, AND THERE WASN'T A SMARTER GUY IN TOWN IN TERMS OF DEALING WITH THE DIFFICULTIES OF A VERY TOUGH TIME I PUBLISHING.
HE WAS LOSS TO THE AMERICAN AND THE COMMUNITY.
>> CONDOLENCES TO KEVIN'S FAMILY AND ALL OF BILL, WE ARE GOING TO MOVE ON YOU FOR THE FIRST TOPIC OF THE NIGHT.
AND CALERES HAS DECIDED TO SELL ITS 9-ACRE PROPERTY, FROM I-70 TO THE CLAYTON SCHOOLS EFFECTIVELY TAKING THAT BEAUTIFUL PIECE OF PROPERTY OFF THE TAX ROLLS AND MILLION DOLLARS IN PROPERTY TAXES ALONE WILL BE LOST ON AN ANNUAL BASIS.
WHAT DO YO >> I HAVE SEEN BAD IDEAS IN MY TIME.
I LIVED IN CLAYTON SINCE 1983.
BOTH OF MY KIDS WENT TO CLAYTON SCHOOLS, AND THE GRADE SCHOOL SYSTEM.
NAUNANIMOUSITY.
AND ALL OF A SUDDEN THE SCHOOL BOARD AND SUPERINTENDENT SEEMED INTENT ON THROWING A WRENCH IN THE WHOLE THING.
THE ID SPEND MILLIONS OF DOLLARS ON ADDITIONAL CAMPUS WHEN THE SCHOOL POPULATION IS SLIGHTLY DOWN, AND THEY ARE CALLING IT IT AN EMPOWERMENT CAMPUS.
IT'S LIKE INCLUSION.
OH.
SCHOOL GOING TO BE NONINCLUSIVE?
WHAT'S GOING ON?
IT MAKES NO SENS HOW MUCH MONEY IS THIS GOING TO COST?
1/2 MILLION.
THEY SAY WE WILL TEL WE PAY AFTER WE CLOSE.
I MEAN, THEY ARE GOING BACKLASH, I'M AFRAID.
I HAVE NEVER SEEN IN CLAYTON ANY ORGANIZED EFFORT AGAINST SCHOOL BONDS, BUT THEY ARE LIKELY TO GET ONE NOW.
AND LASTLY, YOU KNOW, THE SCHOOL BOARD ELECTIONS HAVE ALWAYS BEEN, YOU KNOW, THREE PEOPLE RUNNING FOR TWO POSITIONS AND YOU CAN'T TELL WHO I AND ALL OF A SUDDEN WE ARE GOING TO HAVE THE CULTURE WARS.
WE ARE GOING TO HAVE PEOPLE WANTING TO BE AGAINST THIS WOKE IDEA OF AN EMPOWERMENT CAMP.
IT'S THE CRAZIEST THING I HAVE EVER HEARD.
TERRIBLE IDEA.
IT MAY HAVE BEEN THE CRAZIEST CRITICISM I HAVE EVER HEARD.
I DON'T KNOW ENOUGH ABOUT WHAT IT IS BECAUSE TH DISCLOATS WHAT IT IS.
>> ISN'T THAT A HI THEY WON'T DISCLOSE WHAT IT IS?
>> YOU HAVE ALREADY DECIDED IT'S WOKE EMPOWERMENT.
I DON'T KNOW I THINK THERE ARE A LO FUNCTIONS THAT COULD BE MET.
AS FAR AS THE DOWNSIDE TO PORT CLAYTON, I'M SURE INSTEAD OF DOING THIS, WE COULD BUY C AND GIVE TAX BREAKS TO DEVELOPERS LIKE THEY DID TO 17.
>> YOU KNOW WHAT.
>> LET ME FINISH.
>> H IF THEY A DEVELOPER LIKE MICHAEL OR BOB CLARK AND THEY WERE ALL INTERESTED IN IT, STILL BE GETTING THE CUR TAXES, RIGHT?
BUT THEY WOULDN'T HAVE TO PAY THE DEVELOPERS THE INCREMENTAL TAXES FOR A PERIOD OF TIME.
NOW THE CITY WILL GET NO MONEY, NOR WILL THE COUNTY, NOR WILL THE LIBRARY, NOR WILL THE THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT AND ALL THE FOLKS BENEFIT FROM A PROPERTY TAX.
>> IT'S NOT MUCH OF AN IMPACT.
CERTAINLY THE PEOPLE I MOST ARE THE PUBLI OBVIOUSLY MUST THINK THEY KNOW WHAT THEY ARE DO TO THAT ASPECT OF IT I THINK WE SHOULD AT LEAST WAI UNTIL RATHER THAN CONDEMN IT, COULD IT BE FOR ROBOTICS?
>> IT COULD BE FOR ROBOTICS.
>> THAT IS A GOOD THING.
>> WHY DON'T THEY SAY THAT, RAY?
EXACTLY WHAT THIS IS, OH, WELL, WE ARE NOT FAR ENOUGH ALONG WITH THE PLAN.
CL AYTON CAN LIVE WITHOUT MORE RETAIL DEVELOPMENT.
>> YOU KNOW WH CLAYTON.
THEY ARE CUTTING >> CUTTING SUCH, OH, MY GOD.
YOU CAN'T EVEN WALK THE STRE OF CLAYTON.
>> T SYSTEM.
BUT THE GRADE SCHOOL.
>> THE CITY OF CLAYTON IS ALSO RUNNING -- HAS A FINANCIAL PROBLEM.
THE FIRST TIME, AS YOU KNOW.
>> POOR CLAYTON.
POSSIBLY SAY THAT.
LOOK.
DISTRICT IN THE STATE TRYING TO MAKE ITSELF BETTER.
THERE'S THAT ASPEC I DO BUT AT LEAST GIVE THEM.
>> ONE REASON IT'S SUCH RATED SCHOOL DISTRICT IS THE COMMUNITY SUPPORTS IT.
>> THEY MAY STILL SU >> AND THEY HAVE THIS ATTITU THAT WE WILL TELL YO IT COSTS AFTER WON'T TELL YOU WHAT IT COST.
>> SECOND TOPIC OF THE EVENING.
SOMETHING TELLS ME WE TO GET TO THIS ONE AGA SOMETIME.
KNOW ABOUT THE ROCK ISLAND BIKE TRAIL, WALKING TRAIL THAT WAS PROPOSED BY GOVERNOR PARSON, OF ALL PEOPLE AND HE WANTED TO BE 144 MILES BETWEEN FRANKLIN COUN THESE ARE VERY POPULAR, YOU KNOW, NOW, AND A LOT OF PEOP GO ON VACATIONS AND RIDE BIKES IN BENTONVILLE, ARKANSAS AND KATY TRAIL AND THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES.
BUT A COUPLE O GOVERNOR, INCLUDING JAY ASHCROFT AND MIKE KEHOE SAY WE DON'T WANT TO SPEND $104 MILLION FOR A BIKE TRAIL.
PUT IN BIKE TRAILS, THAT'S FINE, BUT THE STATE SHOULDN'T.
WHAT DO YOU THINK?
>> I CRITICS ARE COMING FROM ON THIS.
THIS WAS THIS SORT OF MAD FRENZY DURING THE PANDEMIC, WHAT CAN WE DO TO SPEND A LOT OF MONEY FAST.
BECAUSE FEDS ARE THROWING MONEY OUT THERE AND TRYI THE ECONOMY.
THREE YEARS THE START OF THE PANDEMIC FINANCIAL REALITIES ARE SE IN.
MISSOURI AND A LOT OF BADLY UNDERFUNDED STATE WORKERS.
THE PRISON SYSTEM TERRIBLE STATE RIGHT NOW.
WE HAVE AWFUL BE PEOPLE WHO NEED IT.
IT NEEDS TO BE THE TOP P AND I LOVE SOMEONE THAT LOVES THE KATY TRAIL.
AND COMING FROM CLEVELAND.
>> I RIDE BIKES, TOO, AND THIS IS ONE WHERE IF OUR GOVERNMENT IN JEFFERSON CITY WASN'T MAKING SO MANY ALONE BIN DECISIONS AN WASTING MONEY, CHASING CULTURE WARS AND ALL THAT, THEN YOU COULD SAY I DON'T THINK $104 MILLION TO THIS STRETCH OF A BIKE PATH, THIS ON THE PARKS BOARD, AND I LOVE PARKS AND TRAILS.
AND THEY CAN SAY FIDUCIARY DECISION.
I CA BECAUSE THEY HAVE BEEN SO CONTROL LATELY I C THE FACT THAT THEY MIGHT BE MAKING A WISE DECISION HERE.
ONCE AGAIN, I HAVE TO BE ON SIDE OF KEHOE AND ASHCROFT.
OKAY.
>> I WILL BE ON THE SIDE OF PARSON.
HAVE ANOTHER BIKE TRAIL.
>> I DO, TOO.
I WA STREETS.
PARSON ON, AND I REALIZE HE AND I ARE LOOKING PRETTY WOKE ON THIS.
THE KATY TRAIL IS THE PROTOTYPE.
BELIEVE ME, OBVIOUSLY I DISAGREE WITH PARSON AND THE REPUBLICANS ON TRYING TO OPERATE M THE ULTIMATE SHOE STRING ALL THE TIME AND BEING ANTIREVENUE BUT THIS IS A GOOD IDEA.
I THINK THAT MISSOURI, MAYBE THEY CAN BE PERSUADED TO RELAX THEIR ALLERGY TO REVENUE.
>> THERE'S A WHOLE GROUP PEOPLE OUT THERE WHO VACATIONS BIKING.
PITTSBURGH AND WASHINGTON, D.C. PEOPLE GO TO FRANCE AND BENTONVILLE IS FULL OF ST. LOUISIANS AND THEY ARE GOING THERE BECAUSE THE BIKE TRAILS ARE SUPERB.
>> THE KATY TRAIL IS THE &g t;> TOM BROKAW SAYS IT TOO.
AND HE KNOWS.
WHAT ABO YOU HAVE WRITTEN IN YOUR MOST RECENT SUBSTACK COLUMN THAT HYPERLOOP IS DEAD.
AND THIS IS -- THIS WAS GOING TO BE THE T WOULD HAVE TAKEN US ON SOME SORT OF KNE KNEW TUBE FROM KANSAS CITY TO ST. LOUIS.
START FOCUSING ON HIGH SPEED RAIL.
AGAIN, I THINK IT HAS TO BE DONE FAIRLY INCREMENTALLY IN A STATE LIKE MISSOURI, BECAUSE THERE'S A LOT OF LOGISTICS CA LO JIS LOGISTICAL ISSU ES.
BUT IT'S LIKE LET'S NOT FORGET THAT AS OF 2017, IT WAS A LEAD STORY IN THE POST DISPATCH AND I DON'T BLAME THE POST.
THE GOVERNOR OF MISSOU GREITENS WAS CLAIMING ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WAS GOING TO BRI US THE AMAZON HEADQUARTERS IS THAT KANSAS CITY AND ST. LOUIS WOULD ONLY BE 23 MIN IF WE DON'T LOOK A LITTLE FOOLISH ON THAT IN RETROSPECT, IT'S JUST -- IT'S A DIFFERENT ISSUE TO HAVE BID ON THE TEST TRACK.
THIS.
IS KIND OF SAD.
>> WE DIDN'T DO HYPERLOOP AND WE DIDN'T GET AMAZON.
SO THERE IT >> YOU WERE MR. HYPERLOOP, IF I REMEMBER.
>> GREAT.
KNOW, THE MEDIA KIND OF THE KOOL-AID ON THE HYPERLOOP THING.
SERIOUS IDEA AND ELON MUSK IS NOT A SERIOUS PERSON.
AND YET YOU ARE LOOKING AT HIGH SPEED RAIL AS THIS COULD BE TH NEXT THING.
I PUT THAT IN THE I LIVED IN CALIFORNIA WHEN THEY KEPT PROMISING WE WOULD GET HIGH SPEED RAIL TO SAN FRANCISCO.
IT USED TO BE A COUNTRY THAT CAN BUILD THINGS AND PULL OFF BIG PROJECTS.
HAPPENED IN THAT PROJECT IF YOU THINK THER PULL IT OFF HERE.
>> IT'S A HERE TO KANSAS CIT YOU ALL NEED TO GET OUT OF THE SYSTEM AND HOUSEWIVES AND BEVERLY HILLS AND THE DISCOVERY CHANNEL.
THEORETI WOUL BY THEORY DON'T SCOFF AT THAT.
>> I'M JUST SAYING.
>> LET ME SAY THIS.
I CAN UNDERSTAND HIGH BETWEEN NEW YORK AND WASHINGTON, D.C. PE NOBODY IS GOING TO G KANSAS CITY TO ST. LOUIS OR VICE VERSA.
ONCE.
ONCE.
CITY.
WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO?
RENT A CAR FOR A C >> IN CASE YOU HAVEN'T FOLLOWED YOUR OWN NEWSPAPERS, THE GOVERNOR IS GOING TO WIDEN HIGHWAY 70 TO THE TUNE OF SO HIGH MISSOURI.
ADDICTED TO THE AUTOMOBILE.
THERE'S NO QUEST POLITICALLY THERE'S VERY LITTLE WILL TO DO ANYTHING INCREM BUT I WILL SAY THIS.
THAT DOESN'T ARGUE THAT -- GETTING FROM ST. LOUIS TO JEFFERSON CITY RELIABLY AND QUICKER WOULD BE A GOOD THING.
>> WHO IS GOING TO >> WAIT.
&g t;> IF IT WAS NEW YORK WITH THEATER AN THING.
TH ERE'S A CHANCE YOU CAN DO THERE.
THAT'S A GROUND ZERO OF THE X PRIZE AND KNEW THAT WAS SOME FOLLY.
> OUR NEXT TOPIC THAT HOMICIDES ARE DOWN IN THE CITY OF ST. LOUIS.
YEARS AGO, 158 LAST YEAR.
THAT'S GREAT.
BUT THE CITY IS ALSO REPORTING THAT OTHER REPORTED CRIME IS DOWN, EVERYTHING FROM BURGLARIES TO ASSAULTS AND THE LIST GOES ON.
DON'T HAVE A WORKING 911 SYSTEM, IF THE POLICE OFFICERS ARE BEING TOLD NOT TO PROACTIVELY CRIME, ONLY RESPOND TO CALLS BY THE DISPATCHER AND IF YOUR POLICE DEPARTMENT HAS BEEN GIVING L FOR TWO CONSECUTIVE YEARS, DON'T YOU HAVE SOME REAL REASONS TO BE SUSPICIOUS WHILE THE CRIME NUMBERS THAT OF ST. LOUIS?
>> ALL THAT WA AGO OR TWO YEARS AGO, YOU THROW ALL OF THAT IN AND ALL THE OTHER CRIMES.
I ACTUALLY DO THINK THAT CRIME WAS REDUCED OVER THE PAST YEAR.
THAT'S GREAT.
LET'S REDUCE CRIME ANO AND REDUCE CRIME ANOTHER YEAR.
I'M NOT GOING TO BE SCEPTICAL OF WHAT THAT WAS REPORTED.
I'M NOT GOING TO THE CHIEF THAT CAME FROM SOMEPLACE ELSE AND WAS GOING TO BE A HORRIBLE CH >> I THINK CRIME IS DOWN AND IT'S DOWN MOSTLY ALL AROUND THE COUNTRY.
>> NOT KANSAS CITY.
>> EVEN IF WE CAN GET THERE IN 23 MINUTES.
>> I'M CHIEF -- I TEND TO THINK THAT POLICE ARE SUPPOSED TO BE ARRESTING CRIMINALS, NOT NECESSARILY STOPPING CRIME.
>> I AGREE WITH THAT.
I DO AGREE.
>> I SAID IT FOR A LONG TIME.
THE FOCUS JUST ON THE MURDER RATE IS NOT A GOOD STRATEG BECAUSE MOST PEOPLE ARE AFFECTED BY A BROAD RANGE OF CRIMES, CARJACKING, ASSAULTS, BREAK-INS AND SO F AND I CAN GO '80s WHEN I LIVED IN SHAW NEIGHBORHOOD AND I GOT MY CAR STOLEN.
STUFF.
TO FRY.
NEW.
HE'S DOING A FINE JOB.
AND IN SUBSTACK, WHAT IS AMAZING AND WORRISOME, THERE'S GOING TO BE MORE EFFORT BY THE REPUBLICANS TO SEIZE CONTROL OF THE POLICE IN ST.
THE LACK OF OVERSIGHT, THE LACK OF A CIVILIAN REVIEW BOARD IS WAY WORSE THAN PEOPLE REALIZE.
I THINK THE CITY HAS TO DO A BETTER JOB OF HAVING CIVIL REVIEW, IN WHICH CASE WE MIGHT KNOW HOW THE POLICE DEPARTMENTS ARE RUN.
I THINK CRIME BE GOOD STORY.
>> I RESIDENT HERE.
LONG TIME.
>> IT.
DOWN AND I DO GIVE CREDIT TO THE CHIEF.
RESIDENTS DO.
IF ANSWERING AND STARTING TO MAKE BIG STRIDES IN FIXING THAT SYSTEM AND PEOPLE FEEL HAPPY ABOUT THAT.
THE NEW FRONTIER HAS GOT T BE -- THERE'S BROKEN WINDOWS AND SO MANY PEOPLE IN THE LAST COUPLE OF WEEKS TIRES HAVE STOLEN OFF THE CARS, CARS HAVE BEEN STOLEN, BROKEN INTO.
THERE'S A WHOLE LOW LEVEL OF THINGS THAT PEOPLE ARE FRUSTRATED ABOUT.
CI ARE IN A VERY SOUR MOOD RIGHT NOW.
HANDLE ON THE BIGGER THINGS, THEY CAN FOCUS O THINGS.
LONG TIME IN THE CITY.
>> WHY DO FOUR PANELISTS TH E POLICE DEPARTMENT SUDDENLY?
BECAUSE WE KNOW THANKS TO JOSH OF THE ST. LOUIS POST DISPATCH, TWO YEARS THE POLICE DEPARTMENT COULD NOT GIVE A THE F.B.I.
ONE YEAR, SETTING STATS THAT THE F.B.I.
BECAME PERMANENT THAT ELIMINATED AN ENTIRE MONTH OF CRIME BUT THE NEXT YEAR THEY DID THE SAME THING AND LOST THREE MONTHS AND NOW WE FIND OUT, THANKS AGAIN TO THE POST DISPATCH, THAT THE POLICE DEPARTMENT STATS ABOUT WHERE CRIMES ARE OCCURRING TO ST. LOUIS UNIVERSITY O BUT WE FIND OUT THEN THAT THE SAME POLICE DEPARTMENT HAS BEEN HANDING THOSE ST WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, SLIPPING.
SO I DON'T TRUST THE POLICE DEPARTMENT WHEN IT COMES T NUMBERS AT ALL > PROBABLY ADD UP, SO TO SPEAK, AND WITH ALL THIS GOING ON, BECAUSE I THINK IT SHAKES OUT.
I REALLY DON'T THINK THAT TH ARE JUST JIBING THE NUMBERS.
I DON'T.
AS FOR THE >> THEY WERE TELLING SAN TELLING SANDAVOL, AND THEY WERE HANDING THESE OVER.
IS N'T PARTICULARLY WELL RUN, AND THEY ARE NOT GIVING THE GRANULAR LEVEL TO PEOPLE.
AND I THINK THEY WOULD HAVE VARIOUS PEOPLE ON SPEED DIAL I OPPOSITE 6789 NOBODY IS SITTING THERE LYING OR JUKING THESE.
>> THEY MAY BE TRUSTWORTHY.
HOW DO YOU KNOW THE NUMBERS ARE DOWN IF THEY CAN'T FIGURE THE OWN STATS, AND MAYBE 911 I BETTER, BUT YOU CAN'T DENY THAT THE POLICE OFFICERS HAVE BEEN TOLD IN THE CITY OF PROACTIVE POLICING, ONLY GO ON CALLS WHEN YOU ARE CALLED BY A DISPATCHER.
THROW THEM IN THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER OR SOMETHING?
>> HOMICIDE NUMBERS HAVE AC CURATE.
IN JAIL NOW?
IF YOU LOOK CITY JUSTICE CENTER VERSUS A YEAR AGO.
WAITING A LONG TIME FOR THE TRIALS.
OF THESE NUMBERS.
>> OF COURSE WASU IS AND YOU KNOW HOW ROUGH CLAYTON IS GETTING.
SARAH FENSKE, THE GOVERNOR IN AN EXECUTIVE ORDER THIS WEEK SAID THAT 6 NATIONS AND I GUESS THEY WOULD BE CHINA, CUBA, RUSSIA, SOUTH KOREA, IRAN, VENEZUELA CANNOT BUY AGRICULTURAL PROPERTY WITHIN 10 MILES OF A MILITARY INSTALLATION IN MISSOURI.
THE YEAR AFTER THERE WAS THAT SPY BALLOON FROM CHINA GOING OVER THE UNITED STATES.
ARE YOU WITH T THIS ONE?
>> I'M WITH TH HOW OFTEN DO I SAY THA SHOW.
COMMON SENSE SOLUTION.
WE KNOW CHINA IS TRYING TO S ON US, AND DO THEY CARE ABOUT MISSOURI?
BUT HAVING CARVING OUT THE FOREIGN ADD ADVERSARIES, AND SOMETHING YOU COULD SE LEGISLATURE TRYING T MAKES SENSE TO ME.
>> SURE.
NO P CHINA.
AND IT'S INTERESTING, IF YOU READ THE NATIONAL PRESS, T SUDDENLY A WHOLE BUNCH OF STATES, ALMOST ALL RED STATES, AND ALL THE RED STATES ARE DOING THIS VERY THINK NOW.
THEY HAVE BEEN TALKING ABOUT IT FOR YEARS, AND I HAD ALREADY DONE I AND I THINK THERE'S LI 40 MILLION ACRES THAT THE CHINES COUNTRY.
FI POLITICS, AND THE DOWNSIDE A LITTLE BIT, AND AGAIN, IT'S FINE.
AMERICANS AND OTHERS EXPRESSING A LITTLE CONCERN THAT THIS SORT OF NARRATIVE SPILLS OVER INTO SOME OTHER AREAS THAT AREN'T SO GREAT.
I'M SAYING, AND I THINK THEY ARE RIGHT, THAT WE MAYBE WANT TO KIND OF SLOW OUR ROLL A LITTLE BIT.
OF YEARS AGO, AND THEY HAVE A HUGE PROBLEM WITH ALL THES WEALTHY CHINESE PEOPLE COMING IN AND BUYING LAND.
NOT FOR SPYING PURPOSES OR ANYTHING, BUT IT'S SORT OF LIKE SAUDI ARABIA, AND IF THEY WANTED TO BUY BIG CHUNKS OF ST. LOUIS OR VANCOUVER, IT JUST DOESN'T SEEM HEALTHY TO ME.
>> IT'S NOT GOOD IN CITI VANCOUVER, PEOPLE CAN'T AFFORD TO BUY CONDOS >> CHINESE BUYING, AND PRICE DOESN'T MATTER.
THERE'S AN INTERNATIONAL HATRED AT THIS TABLE.
>> OH, MY GOSH.
I KNOW SOMEBODY'S NAME AN ACRE IN KIRK WOOD.
AND HE WOULD WANT TO BUY IT FOR $5 MILLION.
>> FOREIGN ADVERSARY?
>> FINE.
>> THERE IS A GUY LIVI NORTH ST. LOUIS AND HE'S BEEN CHARGED WITH H ESPIONAGE WORKING WITH THE RUSSIANS.
>> IF THE CHINESE WANTED TO BUY HALF OF NORTH ST. LOUIS, NOBODY WOULD STOP THEM, RIGHT?
>> WHAT ARE WE SAYING?
WE ARE SAYING FOREIGNERS CAN NO LONGER OWN PROPERTY?
>> I THINK FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS ARE WANTING TO UNITED STATES.
>> ENOUGH.
WHO IS PROTECTING THE KIDS THA DO THE RIGHT THING AND WANT TO LEARN?
NOBODY.
THEY ARE TOO BUSY WITH THE DISTRACTERS.
THAT'S FROM DAWN AND I BELIEVE INFRASTRUCTURE AND I270 NORTH WAS THE LARGEST MO DOT PROJECT IN 10 YEARS, AND ONE OF THE MOST INNOVATIVE.
IT WAS PUT ON SAFETY, VOLUME, AND PLACEMENT OF ANTIQAITED INTERACTIONS WITH MODERN ENGINEERED INTERCHANGES.
AND JOHN GUNTHER WROTE CHAFERLY, THANK YOU FOR EXPRESSING YOUR CONCERNS OVER THE EXTENSIVE USE OF STONE RIFFRAFF ON THE I-70 PROJECT AND BEYOND.
THE MANY BENEFITS APPEAR TO HAVE GONE OUT OF FAVOR IMPACTIN POTENTIAL BEAUTY AND ENVIRONMENT OF THE PUBLIC REALM.
MR. GUNTHER WAS A DESIGNER OF THE BUILDING ON I-70.
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