Anne Schweitzer

The Refuse Division has struggled to hire enough drivers to pick up trash across the city, leading it to stop sorting recycling in July. Thanks to an uptick in new hires, the service is expected to resume by December.

Three of the four candidates who received the backing of an initiative called Flip The Board won their aldermanic races in St. Louis, giving progressive-minded aldermen a working if fragile majority at City Hall.

With a new mayor incoming in St. Louis, progressives have announced their intention to "flip the board" to create a new progressive majority on the Board of Aldermen. Candidates Anne Schweitzer and Shedrick Kelley discussed the effort on St. Louis on the Air, with analysis from Rachel Lippmann.