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Record spending fuels Missouri campaigns to legalize sports gambling, new casino

1 year 5 months ago
It’s time to bet the over-under on how much will be spent this year on gambling ballot measures in Missouri. A good mark might be $60 million. Online bookies poured $32 million so far into the Amendment 2 campaign to legalize sports betting, and a casino company grumpy about the deal countered with $14 million to defeat it. The campaign for Amendment 5, to authorize a new casino at the Lake of the Ozarks, adds $9.4 million — bringing the total to more than $55 million. Winning for Missouri…
Rudi Keller

This Week in Gardening & Nature

1 year 5 months ago
Plant of the Week: native Aromatic Aster Fall Color Reports. Missouri and Illinois Free Trees for University City residents via Forest Releaf Missouri’s Community Canopy program. Order now for Saturday, October 19th pick up at The Green Center, 8025 Blackberry. Available Trees: Bald Cypress, Buttonbush, Redbud, River Birch, Swamp White Oak, Vernal Witchhazel, Washington Hawthorn  … Continue reading This Week in Gardening & Nature →
mceselski

Mexican-American restaurant closes its doors

1 year 5 months ago
Another St. Louis restaurant has closed, after five years in business. Sunny's Cantina, a Mexican-American restaurant at 6655 Manchester Ave. in the Franz Park neighborhood south of Forest Park, closed its doors Sunday. "We have made the sudden and difficult decision to close our doors at Sunny’s Cantina," the owners had said in announcing the decision Friday on Facebook. "A month ago, we were planning on giving it another year at least, but it became clear these last few weeks that now is the…
Jonathan Fong

Remodeled midcentury home is on Belleville tour

1 year 5 months ago
In 2020, after nine months of renovation that filled five dumpsters, they moved into the three-bedroom, three-bath, 2,369 square-foot home and began to fill it with period-appropriate midcentury modern furniture.
Jim Winnerman Special to the Post-Dispatch