Some stood in silent anticipation. Others came wearing shades, loud shirts and two-fisting brews. An unimpressed faction gathered on the fringes carrying signs and saying hooray for our side. At the downtown intersection of Washington and Broadway — also known as down the block from Rams-Chiefs exhibition play — about 350 locals gathered to cheer, applaud or harass an issue that’s festered into a full boil.
Headlined by boyish civic do-gooder Dave Peacock, members of Gov. Jay Nixon’s task force appeared late Thursday afternoon to lend voices and faces to their efforts to build a $1 billion riverfront stadium, to keep St.