I know this is obvious, but . . . Everybody seems to have forgotten what Elon Musk's real problem with Twitter is. The wellspring of everything that's happened since last year was a single moment of stupidity in which he agreed to massively overpay for it. And it's not like he doesn't know this. He ...continue reading "The real problem with Twitter"
There are calls for tighter fireworks restrictions and perhaps a complete ban after a deadly fire in unincorporated St. Charles County with fireworks as a suspected cause just after the Fourth of July had ended.
The state of Wisconsin allows the governor to eliminate parts of legislation he doesn't like using a line item veto. Today, Gov. Tony Evers vetoed a couple of digits and a hyphen from a two-year increase in the school budget. The original said this: for the 2023-24 school year and the 2024-25 school year, add ...continue reading "News of the weird, Wisconsin line-item veto edition"
Does this look like someone carrying a gun? That’s from a recent federal court decision [PDF], granting defendant Luis Cerda’s motion to suppress. NYPD sergeant Christopher Colon saw something else. He saw a gun. He needed to see a gun. He was so desperate to bust someone else entirely (Alberto Santiago, a.k.a. “Dot Com”) that […]
GODFREY - Godfrey Mayor Mike McCormick and several village trustees are wary of the increasing number of liquor license requests they’ve been getting from local businesses after one such request came before the Village Board on Wednesday from Kroger, the owner of Ruler Foods in Godfrey. At Wednesday night’s Village Board meeting, trustees discussed a liquor license request from Kroger for a “Beer of the Month” promotion. The grocery store chain said in their application that they “will also be applying for state video gaming licenses in the near future.” Mayor Mike McCormick recalled Trustee Rick Lauschke raising concerns about the growing number of liquor license/video gaming requests from local businesses at the last Village Board meeting and said he thinks the situation is “getting out of control.” “We’ve been getting a lot of these,” McCormick said. “Now the Ruler store wants to be able to put in video
Before Mamma Mia!, members of ABBA teamed up with Tim Rice (Jesus Christ Superstar, The Lion King, Evita) to create a dynamic drama centered on the World Chess Championship, mirroring