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Severe weather risk for southern Missouri & Illinois this afternoon

4 years ago
ST. LOUIS, Mo. - There have been some high winds and heavy rain today in the St. Louis area. Some of the wind gusts are 40 to 50 miles per hour. There are no active warnings in the St. Louis region but there could be some potent storms that are rolling through the area today. [...]
Chris Higgins

Chart of the day: What happens when the improved Obamacare subsidies go away

4 years ago
James Medlock happened to post this chart today, so I might as well post it too. It shows what happens when the increased Obamacare subsidies go away and we return to the original subsidy structure: In its original form, Obamacare subsidies were available only for people with incomes under 400% of the poverty level. For ...continue reading "Chart of the day: What happens when the improved Obamacare subsidies go away"
Kevin Drum

Family: actor Bruce Willis retiring citing brain damage

4 years ago
Bruce Willis will be stepping away from acting. According to his daughter, Willis has been diagnosed with aphasia and will be forced to retire. According to the Mayo Clinic, "Aphasia is a condition that robs you of the ability to communicate. It can affect your ability to speak, write and understand language, both verbal and [...]
Gregg Palermo

Jay-Marie Is Holy Melds Art and Activism

4 years ago
Turning on Jay-Marie Is Holy's new music video for their song "I Wanna Love," we arrive in a summer scene: a park in south city, where a group of people in pastel pinks and crop tops dance on a grassy hill, while DJs spin and smile.
Delia Rainey

Tommy Chims Smokes C4's CB Dutch

4 years ago
As the cannabis industry increasingly finds ways to up the potency on the products it produces, one of the more difficult challenges can be finding a strain that doesn't get you brain-scramblingly high.
Thomas K. Chimchards