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Statewide tornado drill to take place in Illinois on Wednesday

2 years 3 months ago
CHICAGO — Severe Weather Preparedness Week kicked off in Illinois on Monday and Chicago’s Office of Emergency Management and Communications (OEMC) is encouraging residents to take part in a statewide tornado drill this week. According to the National Weather Service (NWS), the annual statewide tornado drill will take place at 11 a.m. on Wednesday. The [...]
Gabriel Castillo

Accused St. Louis Church Kidnappers Say Cops Got the Wrong Guys

2 years 3 months ago
Attorneys for the three men charged with a brutal kidnapping at the Mount of Olives Ministry church in south city say the case against their clients is a circumstance of mistaken identity and a “rush to judgment” by the police.  Grace Kipendo, Pasi Heri and Mmunga Fungamali were charged with felony kidnapping and assault two weekends ago after police were led to the church in the Patch neighborhood by a woman "crying out to passersby who were not members of the church," one of whom called police. The victim told police she was tied up, beaten, given only water and forced to use a bucket as a makeshift toilet.
Ryan Krull

To You, I Go

2 years 3 months ago

To You, I Go (2023) is Jessica Page’s visual love letter to St. Louis. Although St. Louis is rarely romanticized, Page aims to showcase the softest purest side of her […]

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Rachel Huffman

Missouri’s New Speech Police

2 years 3 months ago
Republican state Rep. Jamie Gragg of Ozark is a freshman lawmaker with no discernible accomplishments on his record. However, it isn’t to say that the man doesn’t break from the party line when it comes to the Republican Party’s fascistic campaign against transgender rights. Gragg introduced House Bill (HB) 2885. It makes it a sex […]
Mike Masnick

Why are we having less sex? Is it antidepressants?

2 years 3 months ago
Here's a chart from Ryan Burge: Between the ages of 20-50, the number of people having frequent sex has declined by 7-10 percentage points. Burge is interested in whether this has anything to do with religion, but I have a different theory. The early comparison period is 1989-1993. This was before the Prozac revolution really ...continue reading "Why are we having less sex? Is it antidepressants?"
Kevin Drum