St. Louis County Executive Sam Page wants the government to approve a nearly $100,000 contract with political operative Mike Kelley's firm, meant to "inform" voters about a bond issue that could be on the November ballot to replace the Roos government building in Clayton.
A couple of weeks ago I was thinking about going out to take a picture of a SpaceX launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base. Not all the way out to Vandenberg, but maybe to Palos Verdes where I could get a clear view. But then the launch was delayed, and I never did it. On ...continue reading "Lunchtime Photo"
David Hoffmann, a Washington native who bought up dozens of properties in Missouri wine country, made the Forbes World Billionaires List for the third consecutive year.
The company intends to tear down an existing structure to build a new two-story building, while also looking for new locations across the region to open branches.
Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey is seeking to squash a nearly eight-month-old program that has waived $1.2 billion in student loans for 153,000 borrowers and limited the payment amounts for 8 million others. He is joined by the attorneys general from Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, North Dakota, Ohio and Oklahoma in a lawsuit filed Tuesday in […]
WASHINGTON — Republican Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri thinks he’s found a path for stalled tax legislation that would temporarily expand the child tax credit and restore business tax breaks that are expired or have sunset under the 2017 tax law. Hawley’s idea is to attach the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act to the tax bill […]
This headline is like a version of Mad Libs for Techdirt titles. We’ve been covering the problem of copyright trolls for many years. And lately, we’ve been covering the scammy uses of generative AI tools. And we’ve absolutely covered quite a few SEO scam stories, where people try to use some scam or another to […]
Deep Purple is getting ready to hit the road this summer on their = 1 More Time Tour celebrating 50 years of their classic tune “Smoke on the Water.” The tour, featuring…
Sigh. The prostate biopsy results came back this morning and I have prostate cancer. It's "large and aggressive," but still probably treatable via normal radiation therapy. We won't know for sure until I get a CT scan and a bone scan that tell us whether the cancer is limited to the prostate or has metastasized ...continue reading "Health update"