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Cold or allergies? Here is how you can tell them apart

2 years 5 months ago
ST. LOUIS -- Grass and tree pollen levels in the St. Louis region are on the rise. If you suffer from allergies, you're likely all too familiar with the sneezing, runny nose, congestion, and watery eyes that come with it. Scientists indicate that climate change is causing pollen seasons to start earlier, last longer, and [...]
Joe Millitzer

How Opera Theatre of Saint Louis is shaping the city’s cultural landscape

2 years 5 months ago
While the idea of a summer opera festival located in the Gateway City may not sound like the most obvious idea, it’s a setting that has proven extraordinarily fruitful. Every May and June since 1976, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis (OTSL) presents a six-week festival season of four different operas at Webster University’s Loretto-Hilton Center. Every festival features innovative stagings, exciting young talent from around the country, and the deeply-held belief that opera — like any good art…
Opera Theatre of Saint Louis

ATMs smashed in two St. Louis County locations

2 years 5 months ago
UNIVERSITY CITY, Mo. -- At least two ATMs were broken into this morning at two different Royal Bank locations. One is on Delmar Boulevard in University City. The other is on Rider Trail in Earth City. At around 3 a.m. the ATM is smashed open and left on the parking lot. We've asked the police [...]
Joe Millitzer

The abandoned St. Louis skyscraper that helped revitalize Midtown

2 years 5 months ago
A recent Wall Street Journal article reports that Downtown St. Louis real estate is in a "doom loop." Grand Center, located just west of downtown, was also considered "dead" in the 1990's. A project to save another abandoned skyscraper helped to bring it back. Now, Midtown is getting billions in investments.
Joe Millitzer

Fake ‘Pink Slime’ Propaganda Newspapers Surge Ahead Of Fall Election

2 years 5 months ago
For decades, academics have been trying to warn anybody who’d listen that the death of your local newspaper and the steady consolidation of local TV broadcasters was creating either “news deserts,” or local news that’s mostly just low-calorie puffery and simulacrum. Despite claims that the “internet would fix this,” fixing local journalism just wasn’t profitable […]
Karl Bode