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The Guardian's front page is currently promoting a story that says antibiotic resistance is associated with air pollution—in particular, with small particulates called PM2.5, which are produced mostly by fossil fuels in richer countries and by dust and residential coal burning in poorer ones. Unfortunately, when I clicked through to the study this was based ...continue reading "New study says air pollution causes most antibiotic resistance. Maybe…"

They say it’s happening all over the country.

Anheuser-Busch InBev has reached an agreement to sell eight of its beer and beverage brands, including Shock Top and HiBall Energy, to a global cannabis company.

The plaintiffs, most of them Indigenous youth, say the state’s highway projects promote greenhouse gas emissions and threaten their constitutional rights.

The state's health department is offering a chance for Missourians to become entrepreneurs in the marijuana industry. 

When we met Vanessa Downen in late July, the air conditioner in her Hazelwood Forest Apartment unit had been removed but not replaced.

Trash woes have now hit one of St. Louis's top suburbs. It's not an issue of too much garbage in Wildwood, it's too many garbage cans stacking up in people’s driveways, yards, or garages, along with skyrocketing garbage fees.

Two families are coping with tragedies. A 7-year-old was accidentally shot and killed in Berkeley. Hours later in Belleville, a 5-year-old suffered a fatal gunshot wound to the face.

“We all have bad days,” Faulkerson said. “That doesn’t mean you run somebody over.”

A 5-year-old girl was shot and killed Monday evening in Belleville, the second child killed in a span of less than nine hours in the St. Louis region.

From RiverBender:  30 years ago, the Great Flood of 1993 impacted several towns in the Riverbend area – including Grafton, where flooding was recorded for 195 days. Former Grafton Alderwoman and Mayor Bobbie Amburg recalled her experience with the flood, including commuting to and from work by boat, meeting a presidential candidate, and more. The […]

From St. Louis Business Journal:  When the 21c Museum Hotel St. Louis opens next week following years of construction on the historic YMCA building in Downtown West, the new hotel will open alongside two new restaurants and a swim club with membership open to the public. The hotel at 1528 Locust St. is taking bookings […]

There’s nothing particularly novel when it comes to showrunners of media properties blaming all these damned kids and their internet for why their productions aren’t as successful as they wanted. Everything from broadway productions to viewership of the damned Olympics have had young people and social media blamed for declining or terrible viewership/attendance numbers. In […]

From St. Louis Post-Dispatch:  School districts and other taxing entities in St. Louis County would miss out on nearly $11 million a year in revenue if the County Council approves a proposed tax break for the Boeing Co., but economic development boosters say the region needs the deal to compete. If the council approves tax incentives for […]

Bands and music fans showed up to Ballpark Village Monday evening to celebrate the man lovingly known as Beatle Bob.

From St. Louis Post-Dispatch:  A judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed against Green Street Real Estate Ventures by a former executive. Paul Giacoletto had alleged in a St. Louis County Circuit lawsuit filed in January that the St. Louis-based development company locked him out of lucrative contracts worth $2.3 million, while also directing his construction division […]

From St. Louis Business Journal:  Andy Kohl says he and his wife, Amy, for years had casually discussed the idea of trying to add more soccer fields in St. Charles County. The conversations got more serious as their three young children got more involved in the sport. “As they continued to get older, we realized […]

From WASHU’s The Source:  Architecture shelters and protects. Yet too often, the built environment also perpetuates entrenched biases as well as a domineering and extractive view of the natural world. But what if architecture were rooted in a more holistic ethos? What if architecture tended not only to the needs of the body, but to […]