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An off-duty O'Fallon officer and other Good Samaritans jumped into action to rescue a driver Saturday after a medical emergency.

Former education department chairperson Dr. Nicole Nunn-Faron was one of six women to file complaints with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

Eight-year-old Tina Denmark knows she was born to play Pippi Longstocking, and she’ll do anything to win the part in her school musical. Her mother, fellow students, and the rest […]

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Independent Garden Center Discounts Thru August 31st: End of Season Sale @ The Garden Shop on Hampton. Deep Discounts on select annuals & perennial- $2 for 4-inch pot, $4 for a quart-sized pot, $6 for 1/2 gallon pots. They also have Fall veggie seedlings. Summer Sale @ Bowood Farms in Central West End. 25% Off … Continue reading Upcoming St. Louis Area Plant Sales →

For many students in the City of St. Louis, the new school year begins Monday. St. Louis police are doing their part to make sure students are ready.

The Brentwood School District celebrated new improvements to one of its elementary schools is it prepares to welcome back students.

One bus provider expected to serve Saint Louis Public Schools amid transportation issues has canceled its services just two days before the new school year, leaving transportation plans in limbo for nearly 1,000 students.

It's a beautiful day for racing. Saturday marks the 8th Annual Bommarito Automotive Group 500 IndyCar Series race at World Wide Technology Center Raceway.

Quick question: how's the performance of the blog these days? Normal? A little sluggish? Lightning fast? Infuriatingly slow? Just curious. I'm just wondering how my hosting company is doing lately. UPDATE: OK, thanks. The reason I asked, obviously, is that performance lately has been abysmal and I was hoping against hope that it was just ...continue reading "How’s the blog doing?"

Donald Trump, economic genius: Trump: A tariff is a tax on a foreign country. A lot of people like to say it’s a tax on us. No… It’s is a tax that doesn’t affect our country. pic.twitter.com/NNyNthZbKg — Acyn (@Acyn) August 17, 2024 This brings up the eternal question: Is he lying or is he ...continue reading "Donald Trump: Liar or moron?"

This week I learned how to do something new. I have in mind an astrophotography target for next month—or maybe later in winter—that's far too big to fit in my telescope. The only way to capture it is by creating a mosaic: several separate images that are then stitched together. My software does this via ...continue reading "North America in the sky"

A six-figure salary is widely considered a standard of comfortable living in the Midwest, but after taxes, the amount that hits your bank account can vary significantly.

A federal judge has struck down Missouri investment regulations that Republican Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft had touted as way to expose financial institutions that “put woke politics ahead of investment returns.”

Five Years Ago This week in 2019, we looked at the loss of Aereo and its impact on policy, and also dedicated the first of two episodes of our podcast to dissecting the FTC’s Facebook settlement. The Wall Street Journal had Dennis Prager peddling complete nonsense about “Google censorship”, a Fox News commenter was calling […]

I noted the other day that the Fed has had no effect on inflation. However, the Fed is really good at one thing: making interest rates go up. When the Fed cranks up the reserve rate, interest rates do indeed go up. And the housing market naturally craters: Housing starts went down another 100,000 in ...continue reading "The housing market continues to crumble"