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Oakdale is about 45 miles southeast of St. Louis, Missouri.

Cape Air ended its service at St. Louis Lambert International Airport.

A delicious comedy for the heart of summer, Little Shop of Horrors is a campy thriller that follows meek floral assistant Seymour on his quest to win over the love

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Conventional wisdom says that, on average, you should earn more from an investment in stocks than an investment in government bonds. This is the equity premium, the reward you get for making a riskier investment. But the equity premium has been drifting lower for the past year and a half. As of today, it's negative.¹ ...continue reading "The equity premium has disappeared"

As some of you might have seen, this past weekend, the NY Times ran a very nice profile about me, written by Kashmir Hill. There’s not much to say about it, other than it was an interesting (if somewhat awkward-feeling) experience to be the subject of a story, rather than the journalist covering it. But […]

As of Monday afternoon, Ameren Illinois only had about 400 homes left to restore power to in the Metro East.

On Monday, the council voted to table the decision on a proposed subdivision off Highway DD.

The visit comes during a time when the City is taking major steps to expand light rail service along the north-south corridor.

Since 2003, Missouri has set aside a weekend at the beginning of August when families won’t pay state tax on new clothes and school supplies as they prepare for the start of the school year. For just as long, every city, county and special district that imposes its own sales tax has had the authority to opt out of the Back to School tax holiday. With local sales taxes often matching or exceeding the state charge, the impact of the discount was limited. This year, for the first time, there will…

On Saturdays in Benton, Greg Poole's card shop is the place to be. And every single dollar he makes goes to help teachers, the elderly and anyone else who needs it.

A former front-runner to become St. Louis’ next police chief has sued the city alleging he was passed over for the promotion because he is white. St. Louis Lt. Col. Michael Sack and former Lt. Col. Lawrence O’Toole were the only remaining finalists for the job after Mayor Tishaura Jones conducted a national search to replace John Hayden in 2021. The four external candidates failed to show up for the written portion of the selection process, leaving the two internal commanders standing. Jones…

Mergers will be suspended for several parishes until the Dicastery for the Clergy makes a decision, which the Archdiocese said will likely take months.

After another round of severe storms, many communities are cleaning up the debris left behind.

Detainees being pepper sprayed at point-blank range with canisters used to disperse crowds during riots is among allegations listed in the lawsuit.

Check this out from JAMA: Fair Allocation of Scarce CAR T-Cell Therapies for Relapsed/Refractory Multiple Myeloma I imagine this is of interest to practically nobody, but it's right in my strike zone. So let's see what it says: A 2023 study of centers offering CAR T-cell therapy for multiple myeloma found that for every allocated ...continue reading "Did I receive CAR-T treatment because of white privilege?"

A federal judge has refused to dismiss a lawsuit alleging an Iowa newspaper publisher violated customers’ privacy rights through information sharing with Facebook. The Iowa-based newspaper chain Lee Enterprises, owner of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, is facing a potential class-action lawsuit alleging it has shared readers’ personal information, including the videos they watch on Lee […]

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It takes a team to help in an emergency, from the operators at the 911 center to the EMS, police, and fire personnel who respond.

As you may recall from Saturday, the four researchers who wrote "The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2" initially believed that it was quite possible—maybe even likely—that the COVID virus originated in a lab leak. One of the big reasons for this belief was the existence of a furin cleavage site in the virus genome, something that ...continue reading "Here’s why a lab leak of COVID seemed unlikely even in 2020"