Ed Rhode was a hard act to follow. In his eight and a half years as St. Louis mayor Francis Slay's press secretary, he dispatched news releases and pesky reporters with equal efficiency — until last summer, when he left the mayor's employ to start his own PR firm. Fortunately, Kara Bowlin stepped in to replace him. Bowlin, 26, is one of several young recent hires in St. Louis City Hall's Room 200, and she's been instrumental in helping the mayor get used to the wonderful new world of social media. We're not sure if Bowlin's influence is responsible for Slay's increasingly lively Twitter feed — she doesn't contribute herself but does monitor the tweets by the mayor and his campaign office. But we do enjoy checking out his website and, even more, calling up the mayor's office. Thanks to Bowlin's endless good humor in answering all of our questions (even the stupid ones), we don't even mind hearing "no comment." Well, we don't mind much.
Colonel Tim Fitch
| Sep 22, 2011
Les Sterman
| Sep 30, 2009
Rick Sullivan, CEO
St. Louis Public Schools Special Administrative Board
| Sep 24, 2008
Waller McGuire, executive director St. Louis Public Library
| Sep 26, 2007
St. Louis Excise Commissioner
Bob Kraiberg
| Sep 27, 2006
Mariano Favazza
| Sep 29, 2005
Rollin Stanley
| Sep 29, 2004
Rollin Stanley
| Sep 29, 2004
Tom Jones
| Sep 24, 2003
Tom Jones
| Sep 24, 2003