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Mardi Gras is right around the corner, and celebrations are already kicking off in St. Louis' historic Soulard neighborhood.

A story in Springfield News-Leader (paywall) about the Springfield-Greene County Library’s Heirloom Seed Library caught my attention. Cardholders may “check out” up to four seed packets from the Heirloom Seed Library, available at six library branches, per visit, just like books. The goal is for patrons to plant seeds and later harvest seeds to replenish … Continue reading Seed Libraries in Missouri →

KSNF/KODE - Just before midnight into Saturday, residents from around four states, including Missouri, began flooding social media with reports of an earthquake. Residents in southeast Kansas, southwest Missouri, and northwest Arkansas, along with northeastern Oklahoma, are all reported furniture shaking and cabinet doors opening. The US Geological Survey reports a 5.1 magnitude trembler NW [...]

Some familiar faces are sticking with the St. Louis Battlehawks through the UFL merger. It remains to be seen if one of last year's leaders, quarterback A.J. McCarron, will return for another spring football season in St. Louis.

Keynan Middleton officially signed a one-year deal with the Cardinals on Saturday. The deal includes a club option for 2025.

Eckert’s, a family farm in Belleville, Illinois, welcomes you to the Cozy Cider Cabin. Open from Jan. 10 to Feb. 25, the wintery pop-up bar boasts a mountainside-cabin atmosphere with […]

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After nearly three weeks as evacuees, the former tenants of Heritage House Apartments got a much-needed dose of good news Saturday. That’s when St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones announced that the city has secured at least one hotel, and was in the process of securing a second, to provide rooms for the evacuees, including 120 still sheltering at the Hilton by the St. Louis International Airport.

Caitlan Flanagan has an odd piece in the Atlantic today asserting that American university professors are no longer interested in presenting both sides of controversial issues—and I use the word assert advisedly here. The piece is odd because she presents literally no evidence for her argument even though she's written a whole book on the ...continue reading "How to think for yourself"

Jerod Broadbooks, 26, the band director at Barnwell Middle School, finished just more than six minutes behind the top finishers at Saturday's Olympic marathon trials.

A woman accused of targeting an elderly St. Charles County man in a fraud scheme that yielded hundreds of thousands of dollars has turned herself in to authorities in Georgia.

As you likely know, at the beginning of January we launched the latest edition of our public domain game jam, Gaming Like It’s 1928! We invited designers of all stripes to make analog and digital games using the material that entered the public domain this year (including the big one, Mickey Mouse). Now, the jam […]

Continuing our series of Nat Bullard's climate charts, here's one about carbon capture: This surprised me. I didn't realize CCS had increased over the past few years, let alone by a lot. (But the numbers are still pretty low in absolute terms. Operational capacity in 2023 was 50 million tons compared to global CO2 output ...continue reading "Carbon capture is slowly picking up steam"

The US lost 2.6 million jobs in January: So how did that become an increase of 353,000 in the official figures? The answer is seasonal adjustments: we always lose millions of jobs after the holiday season, so the numbers are adjusted based on how many we lost vs. how many we expected to lose. This ...continue reading "Here’s a nonseasonal look at the employment situation"

A St. Louis man accused of shooting a prostitute last month during an arranged meetup now faces felony charges.