Plant of the Week: Aromatic Aster Fall Tree Color Reports: Missouri (Peak color in SE Mo Bootheel, past peak elsewhere) and Illinois Missouri Prairie Foundation is selling “Leave The Leaves” signs for $20 each It’s never too early to start planning your 2024 Garden: Seed St. Louis Planting Calendar Good Reads — Gardening by Month: … Continue reading This Week in Gardening & Nature →
Sporting Kansas City pulled off one of the greatest upsets in MLS history as an 8-seed by sweeping 1-seed St. Louis City SC in the 2023 MLS Cup Playoffs.
BestReviews is reader-supported and may earn an affiliate commission. Details. Sleighbells and lighting, make your holiday festive and exciting It seems like the year has been racing toward the end at a breakneck pace. In just a few weeks, there will be plenty of holidays upon us, making it the perfect time to spend with friends [...]
While El Niño's impacts are never a guarantee, the climate pattern tends to influence weather across the U.S. as it reaches peak strength in the winter.
ST. LOUIS -- It was another Sunday morning of sometimes heated but always civil political debate on Hancock and Kelley, Sunday, November 5, 2023. John Hancock, a Republican consultant, on the right and Michael Kelley, a Democrat consultant, on the left, took on the following topics: Our quote of the week: Former Democrat candidate for [...]
The New York Times has a piece today about people whose bank accounts are suddenly closed with no warning. The reason is that they've done something that triggers one or more Suspicious Activity Reports from their bank. The nature of the SARs is never revealed, but they often lead to banks deciding not to do ...continue reading "Suspicious activity in America has skyrocketed"
This week, our top comments on the insightful side both come in response to Elon Musk’s plans to turn X into a financial app, and the question of whether you’d trust him with your money. In first place, it’s an anonymous comment: Given how well that Elon complies with consent decrees, I suspect his compliance […]
The Washington Post says today that a second Trump term would be all about revenge and more revenge: In private, Trump has told advisers and friends in recent months that he wants the Justice Department to investigate onetime officials and allies who have become critical of his time in office, including his former chief of ...continue reading "What the United States needs is more revenge"
Here's the percentage of the workforce employed by the federal government: It dropped from 3.5% of the total workforce in 1955 to 1.4% of the workforce at the end of 1999. Since January 2000 it's increased from 1.44% to 1.49%. Aside from the decennial census blips, employment generally goes up during and after recessions and ...continue reading "Raw data: Federal government workers"
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