St. Louis aldermen are moving forward with a plan to curb police surveillance of citizens — or at least make that surveillance more transparent. But the man who claims to be surveilling parts of the city for profit wants aldermen to know that he’s not a fan. Joe “Jomo” Johnson, who describes himself as a “future resident of the third ward” but is known locally mostly as that drone guy who wants to use your comings and goings as a more expensive Netflix, spoke against police surveillance reforms at a Board of Aldermen committee meeting last Thursday.
The Signature Members of the Heartland Art Club are exhibiting their work in St. Charles, at the Boyle Family Gallery on the campus of Lindenwood University. Signature Members include artists […]
Courtesy of Solar Opposites (imho the funniest show on streaming TV), here’s what happens when you teach a cop how to read: To quote the relevant part for those who can’t view the video or would just prefer me to put my cop-hating in plain text, here it is. Yumyulack, an alien, is trying to […]
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I remain unmoved by the liberal panic over Joe Biden's weak poll numbers. However, I keep getting asked why, so here it is: Right now the race is basically a tossup. But it's still very early. The vast majority of swing voters aren't paying attention yet—and won't until after the conventions. As voter attention shifts ...continue reading "Here’s why I’m still bullish on Biden"
The Springfield, Missouri–born singer will open for Olivia Rodrigo’s GUTS Tour at the Enterprise Center on March 12, before her own headline show at Saint Louis Music Park on May 30.
The Wall Street Journal reports that restaurants continue to struggle thanks to surging wages for workers: The surge in restaurant and bar worker wages since 2021 followed years in which their hourly earnings ticked up by an easier to manage 2% to 4% annually. For independent restaurants that make food from scratch, higher labor costs ...continue reading "Why are so many restaurants struggling?"
Jason Sparks is an Oklahoma man who almost singlehandedly created the distillate that led to Missouri regulators’ decision to pull more than 60,000 marijuana products off the shelves in August and revoke the license of Robertsville-based Delta Extraction. Now, he’s the star witness in a hearing scheduled to begin Monday morning, where Delta will try to convince the Administrative Hearing Commission to reverse its license revocation and allow it to sell its product in Missouri. In the days leading up to Monday’s much-anticipated hearing, the state and Delta Extractions filed hundreds of documents detailing the investigation into marijuana products the state has deemed illegal and the company is aggressively arguing against.
Robert Schneider starts “Pipes For Parkinson”; Local Jeweler Says It will help his Wife Pipes for Parkinson’s is a new movement started by long-ime Florissant Jeweler to raise money for Parkinson’s after his wife was diagnosed with the disease. Joanne, his wife, was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease about seven years ago, said Robert Schneider, co-founder […]
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