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Convenience stores around the St. Louis area said they were busy all day long Wednesday, selling thousands of Powerball tickets ahead of the big drawing.

ALTON - After the Alton City Council voted 6-1 to raise sales taxes within the recently established Route 3 and Buckmaster Business District, one resident voiced his disapproval. Mike Batchelor, who also raised concerns about the tax increase at a public hearing last month , returned to City Hall to question the economic benefit of the district and the priorities of city officials. While public speakers at Monday’s Committee of the Whole meeting were allowed to make comments before their items of concern were voted on, Batchelor said he was caught off guard by his inability to do the same. “I had a prepared speech, but you guys kind of trashed that with your vote to raise taxes, so forgive me for going a little bit off script,” Batchelor said. “I was the only one to speak up in the public forum to question why anyone thought it was a promising idea to raise taxes on anyone right now, let alone two discount retailers that cater to our lowest income

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We're hearing more from a woman who said her husband is the one who was shot in the hand during what police described as a road rage incident Tuesday morning on Interstate 44 in Fenton.

It’s been a bad run of weeks lately for the company behind game engine Unity, stemming from a ham-fisted plan to drastically alter its pricing model for developers. When that plan was announced, which involved previously free tiers of the engine going away or being changed, per-install fees to developers that could essentially bankrupt a […]

A suspect admitted to federal prosecutors and a judge this month that he unleashed a barrage of gunfire in a well-known downtown St. Louis park.

Southwest Airlines is posting record numbers at St. Louis Lambert International Airport, and its terminal is running out of room.

A solidarity gathering for Israel brought out a standing-room-only crowd to the Jewish Community Center in St. Louis County on Wednesday. 

This summer represented one Doug Armstrong's biggest challenges yet: Putting the Blues in a position to be competitive once again, and through his own words, finding out what makes his guys tick.

Burger Champ, a restaurant coming soon to the space of the former Elmwood (2704 Sutton Boulevard) is set to open in a couple weeks, according to owner Chris Kelling, who was outside the space Wednesday afternoon with the executive chef. Kelling opened Pizza Champ (2657 Lyle Avenue) with Elmwood partner Adam Altnether last year, after […]

St. Louis journalist Don Corrigan storms the American Popular Culture Association with his books exploring way more than journalistic topics - like ROAD KILL.

           

Corrigan's book American Roadkill: Animal Victims of our Busy Highways  is in the great animal rights tradition of Joseph Grinnell of the 1920s, who was alarmed at the animal carnage on America's new highways. Corrigan tells the squashed sad tales, and shares some positives:

• The Saint Louis Zoo enlisting “citizen scientists” to identify high casualty frog and turtle crossings.

• St. Louis Kinship Circle raising awareness of road accidents with pets and how to avoid such heartbreaking meet-ups with cars.

• Sierra Clubs of the southeast, championing endangered pumas.

• Possum Pouch Pickers, down south, rescuing baby possums from marsupial mothers mashed on roadways.

Don Corrigan is Editor Emeritus of the Webster-Kirkwood Times, a weekly newspaper for St. Louis suburban communities.

THANKS to Andy Heaslet, Earthworms audio engineer, and to KDHX production pundit Jon Valley.

Related Earthworms Conversations: 

Richard Louv: Our Wild Calling (Dec 2019)

Don Corrigent on SQUIRRELS (July 2019)

 

An annual study measuring safety among dozens of large US cities ranked St. Louis last for the second straight year.

October is Healthy Lung Awareness Month. Dr. Mansoor Haq is an oncologist and hematologist at SSM Health St. Clare Hospital in Fenton. He says smoking is the top risk factor for lung cancer.

The commission says residents have recommended reparations including the ability to trace lineage back (a particular number of years) for payments of $25,000.

"In addition to being illegal to take in Missouri wildlife by the Wildlife Code of Missouri without the proper permits, it’s not good for the animal either."