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As the planet warms, laborers need special clothes to cope. But they also need government protections.

When most St. Louisans think of 1904, the first thing that comes to mind is the World’s Fair. But the World’s Fair was hardly the only thing happening in St. Louis in that year. Significantly, 1904 was the year that St. Louisans sent noted mobster Thomas “Snake” Kinney to the statehouse in Jefferson City. Thomas …

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Here is tonight's headline in the Washington Post: The GOP nominee has grown increasingly upset about Kamala Harris’s surging poll numbers and media coverage since replacing Joe Biden on the ticket. Poor baby. There's more, of course: “It’s unfair that I beat him and now I have to beat her, too,” Trump told an ally ...continue reading "Donald Trump is unhappy"

Twenty-year-old Preston Jones was shot and killed on June 17, 2022. The bullet came through his bedroom window, while he was asleep.

Jason Sullivan of St. Louis, MO joined the Real Rock Army today

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The 10th biannual exhibition curated from artists within 200 miles. Opening May 7th and on display through October, the 10th Biannual will feature 32 artists and 41 works from a […]

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“I don’t want realism; I want magic!” Tennessee Williams wrote in A Streetcar Named Desire. And magic is what you’ll find at the Tennessee Williams Festival. To enrich the cultural […]

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Return to a time when steamboats ruled the river. The one-hour narrated riverfront cruise aboard the Riverboats at the Gateway Arch explores the history of downtown St. Louis, including the […]

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A recent paper by Christopher Ruhm of the University of Virginia quantifies the value of various efforts to combat COVID-19 in the US. The headline result is a composite score for different states based on what kinds of restrictions they imposed, but I found the detailed national breakdown more interesting. Here are his estimates of ...continue reading "What worked to stop the spread of COVID-19?"

Alfred Montgomery will soon return to the place he was fired from after he announced plans to run against his then-boss Sheriff Vernon Betts back in 2020.

Missouri Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate Lucas Kunce held his first rally tonight since winning the Democratic primary Tuesday, and it was in Maplewood.

A teenager accused of robbery has died after a late-night ordeal that unfolded last month.

Michigan has long been terrible in terms of asset forfeiture. I mean, it’s a problem everywhere, but in Michigan, cops took cars as often as they took cash. Cars were taken from people simply because they happened to pass through areas “known for prostitution.” Cars were taken from people simply because passengers or other drivers […]

After last night’s decisive Missouri primaries, it's now Quade versus Kehoe in the Missouri governor's race. Both candidates are hoping to get a boost from another big race: Harris versus Trump.

Classes in the St. Louis Public School District begin August 19. The district is in turmoil, with a superintendent on leave after only a year on the job and an internal investigation into her alleged questionable hires and high salaries.

As you will no doubt be aware, on July 19th cybersecurity company CrowdStrike did an oopsie in an update it pushed to its Falcon Sensor software that took down millions of computers around the world. The result was chaos, with everything from hospitals to airlines to banks impacted by computers and servers that went into […]