"I have discovered in 20 years of moving around a ballpark that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats.” – St. Louis Browns Owner Bill Veeck When you go to a Cardinals game at Busch stadium, where you sit is very important.
As the St. Louis Board of Aldermen inches closer to the end of its 2023-2024 legislative session, a surprising budget problem is limiting public comment at key committee meetings: The four-figure overtime budget for its public access streaming service. A city ordinance requires the streaming of all aldermanic meetings, including committee meetings, via its STL TV service. But the budget for overtime pay for the service was a paltry $4,500 this fiscal year, and this year’s high volume of evening events has blown right through it.
When Jassen Johnson was an undergrad, he drove through Midtown St. Louis so much that it changed his entire life. At the time, Johnson was studying architecture at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, but he was working on a project in East St. Louis, and to prevent a long commute back and forth to campus, or a costly hotel stay, he crashed with a family member in the Central West End. At that time, 24 ago, streets like Locust were the obvious path.
The Missouri Supreme Court ruled unanimously Tuesday that state marijuana regulators were within their authority to deny a cultivation business license to a company that failed to include proper paperwork with its application. Mo Cann Do Inc. applied for a cultivation license to grow marijuana in 2019. The company was denied when the state said it didn’t include a certification of good standing from the Missouri Secretary of State’s office in its application.
CLAYTON -- The city of Clayton announces a new marker commemorating the city's historic Black community. The A Community Remembered marker highlights how Black homeowners, workers and teachers played a key role in shaping Clayton's history, businesses and churches. The marker will be unveiled aT 7700 Carondelet Avenue in downtown Clayton at 10 a.m.
The Missouri House spent nine hours Tuesday debating the $50.7 billion state budget, with Republicans voting down most ideas from Democrats to add to the spending plan, even amendments that would restore cuts to Gov. Mike Parson’s proposals. There were fights over higher education funding, child care subsidies and where Missouri should deploy the National […]
ST. LOUIS -- A non-profit working to improve inner city neighborhoods is hosting an event to help young people. Better Family Life is holding the 15th annual youth empowerment rally at the Chaifetz Arena. 2,000 students from 20 schools will hear from motivational speakers and health officials. They'll learn about teen pregnancy prevention, STD prevention [...]
ST. LOUIS COUNTY -- Bridgeton has a special election for mayor next Friday, April 12th. It comes after the former mayor, Terry Briggs, died in February. He was in the middle of his third, four-year term as mayor. The two candidates up for election are Randy Hein and Don Hood. The winner's term as mayor [...]
MAPLEWOOD, Mo. -- There were a couple major upsets in some St. Louis County elections thanks to write-in votes. In Maplewood, former Mayor Barry Greenberg made a comeback victory over incumbent Mayor Nikylan Knapper, winning 63-percent of the vote. Knapper unseated Greenberg in 2021. According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Greenberg entered the race after [...]
It should be all spotty rain this afternoon. Afternoon highs will be in the mid- to upper 40s only with gusty northwest winds. Afternoon gusts could reach 35–40 mph.
Classic songs by Queen and Fleetwood Mac are among the most-streamed songs in the U.K.A new list compiled by the Official Charts Company has revealed the 300 most-streamed songs released in the '70s, '80s…
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