Tom Ridge to visit St. Louis
Federal homeland security officials will visit St. Louis on Wednesday, Oct. 8, to examine “what they describe … as the region’s superior efforts at regional coordination, particularly in the area of public health,” according to a report in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. “St. Louis and the region are doing a lot of things that we like, including the interstate mutual aid agreements with Southern Illinois and the intrastate agreements within Missouri,” Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge told the newspaper. The visit will include a two-hour town-hall-style meeting in which a panel that includes St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay and St. Louis Public Safety Director Samuel Simon will discuss terrorism issues, the paper adds. Similar public meetings are scheduled later this fall in Miami, San Diego, Houston, Seattle and Lexington, Ky. For more information, visit
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