It's April and we've had a lot of rain this year, so I figured I should go out and take some pictures of the local wildflowers. They are pretty much the same wildflowers as always, but they're new pictures of the same old wildflowers. This one is a white morning glory, also known as a ...continue reading "Lunchtime Photo"
A recent Wall Street Journal article on downtown St. Louis challenges our reputation. But we can change this perception, as this region has proven it can get exciting things done, writes Steve Smith.
Various states and the federal government are proposing and passing a wide variety of “kid safety” laws. Almost all of them pretend that they’re about conduct of social media sites and not about the content on them, but when you boil down what the underlying concerns are, they all end up actually being about the […]
Extreme and Living Colour are hitting the road together once more.The two bands' Thicker than Blood tour, which first launched in 2023, will continue with a fall leg kicking off…
The private equity firm behind a growing St. Louis-based commercial cleaning and janitorial services business has filled a newly created finance role, as well as a corporate development post.
Missouri’s statewide Republican candidates have a huge cash advantage over Democrats, while Democratic candidates reverse that edge in contested state Senate seats. Quarterly financial reports were due from all campaigns Monday, providing the last financial snapshot of upcoming primary battles until just a few weeks before Missourians vote on Aug. 6. This year’s ballot includes […]
Chesterfield-based agribusiness Bunge Global SA (NYSE: BG) said Tuesday it will add new C-suite roles following its proposed merger with Netherlands-based agriculture firm Viterra Ltd.
Patrick D. Harris is facing two charges of endangering the welfare of a child after officials noticed two kids acting incoherent and unresponsive while in Harris' care.
A team of researchers says the global economy is becoming more fragmented: To measure this phenomenon, we introduce an index of geopolitical fragmentation distilled from diverse empirical indicators. To do so, we rely on the use of a flexible, dynamic factor model with time-varying parameters and stochastic volatility. Then, we employ structural vector autoregressions and ...continue reading "The global economy is becoming more fragmented"
A former staff member at a St. Louis juvenile detention facility has been charged with two felonies after two young people locked up in the facility got too high. Patrick Harris, 23, worked at the juvenile facility on Enright Avenue in the Covenant Blu-Grand Center neighborhood. According to police, Harris gave weed gummies to two individuals locked up there, both under the age of 17.
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday in a Jan. 6, 2021, case that could potentially upend convictions for a mass of Capitol riot defendants and slash some election interference charges against former President Donald Trump. The case, Fischer v. United States, centers on whether former Pennsylvania police officer and Jan. 6 defendant Joseph […]
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