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Celebrate the 101st Birthday of the Man Who Designed the Arch Tram

3 years 3 months ago
Looking at the elegant shape of the Gateway Arch, it sure doesn't seem possible that one could cram into a tiny elevator and take a somewhat terrifying ride to the top. How can an elevator (or in this case tram) curve? [content-1] It's that unexpectedness, my friends, that makes our very own St. Louis Arch tram freaking amazing.
Jessica Rogen

St. Louis Voter Registration Drive Will be Dance-Filled Affair

3 years 3 months ago
The most artsy voter registration event in St. Louis has returned. Dance the Vote STL will present Midterms Matter on Saturday, September 24, from 12:30 to 3 p.m. The nonpartisan event will feature St. Louis dance companies, including the St. Louis Academy of Dance and Skystone Dance Ensemble, doing interpretive dances around the act of voting.
Rosalind Early

New Documentary Digs Into St. Louis Cold Case of Headless Child

3 years 3 months ago
Edrar ‘Bird’ Sosa vividly remembers the day he first heard about the headless child who would go on to become the city’s most notorious cold case. But it wasn’t cold yet. It was 1983, and Sosa was only about 10 years old, growing up in north St. Louis not too far from the house where the child’s mutilated body had been found.
Jessica Rogen

Conservationists celebrate milestone in effort to save Missouri’s endangered hellbenders

3 years 3 months ago

In dripping black wetsuits and scuba masks, standing in the middle of a southern Missouri river last month, a state herpetologist and two zookeepers hugged each other and cheered. “Number 10,000!” That day, state herpetologist Jeff Briggler with the Missouri Department of Conservation and two Saint Louis Zoo keepers released into the wild the 10,000th […]

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Rebecca Rivas

Elected officials work for us. What criteria should we use to hire them?

3 years 3 months ago

As we pause this Labor Day, we should reflect on what the holiday means and remember that elected officials in our city, county, state, the U.S. Senate, and House of Representatives work for us, the people. We are the employer. What guide or criteria should we use to determine who we should hire or rehire […]

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Janice Ellis

Generation Union

3 years 3 months ago
Millennials and Gen Zers are the most pro-union generation since the 1930s and ’40s—and probably more so.
Harold Meyerson