ST. LOUIS -- During National Police Week, law enforcement officials in our area say their strategy for improving safety is to build bonds right in the neighborhood. Major Ron Martin is with the North County Cooperative. Since it was started in 2015, they've been able to decrease crime by 77 percent, while patrolling eight different [...]
I've made this point before, but it's worth making again: inflation at the grocery story has been very, very low for over a year. Here is monthly inflation in groceries: Over the past 12 months, inflation in groceries has averaged 1.1%, way below the normal rate. The press ran about a million pieces when food ...continue reading "Food prices are down, wages are up"
Wednesday marks 40 years since Rock N' Roll legend Ozzy Osbourne sported a St. Louis Blues jersey in a mug shot, a pure coincidence that lives on as a quirky, but beloved part of Blues hockey history.
Art Saint Louis--a nonprofit art organization and gallery located in downtown St. Louis for 40 years--presents our Spring 2024 art exhibition, "Window to the Soul." This juried show is on […]
Because of time zone challenges and my slothful ways, I don't normally post about new inflation figures until well after the rest of the world. My slothful ways aren't likely to change anytime soon, but today you all get the benefit of my being six time zones ahead of the BLS. So here are April's ...continue reading "Inflation settles down in April"
Streaming video still provides some meaningful advantages to traditional cable: it’s generally cheaper (assuming you don’t sign up for every service under the sun); customer satisfaction ratings are generally higher; and users have more power to pick and choose and cancel services at a whim. But the party simply isn’t going to last. Thanks to […]
The Wall Street Journal reports today that people are cheating on employment drug tests more often: Approximately 6,000 urine samples out of about 5.5 million collected from the general U.S. workforce last year were classified as substituted, Quest said. That’s a more than sixfold increase from the previous year. Well, sure, but as the orange ...continue reading "Are Americans really cheating on drug tests more?"
Time is running out for legislation that would make it harder to sue pesticide manufacturers over claims their products cause cancer, with an unusual coalition of opponents working to ensure they’ve stalled the bill’s progress.
The bill, critics argue, shields large corporations at the expense of everyday Missourians who have developed non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma they attribute to the use of pesticides formulated with glyphosate — most prominently, Roundup.
Supporters, including Roundup’s…
Union Station is planning a huge expansion with new amusement rides to hopefully open next summer.
While some of the best attractions remain at Union Station, the National Historic Landmark keeps reinventing itself.
"From what it was 20 years ago, it's unrecognizable. It really is. And I think that's part of the magic of Union Station," said Cameron Schoeffel, director of sales and entertainment at Union Station.
Schoeffel said they are always thinking of more reasons for locals to stay downtown…
Time is running out for legislation that would make it harder to sue pesticide manufacturers over claims their products cause cancer, with an unusual coalition of opponents working to ensure they’ve stalled the bill’s progress. The bill, critics argue, shields large corporations at the expense of everyday Missourians who have developed non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma they attribute […]
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