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Hotel project delayed by pandemic moves forward in Maryland Heights
A new $12 million extended-stay hotel planned at the site of a former office building in Maryland Heights is moving ahead after years of delays.
How much is sand?
2 separate crashes in Missouri Sunday leave man, woman dead
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Life is very, very good in Las Vegas right now
The Wall Street Journal has an inexplicably fascinating story about gambling in Las Vegas today. I've long been accustomed to hearing about microscopic changes in gambling rules to favor either the house or (via negotiation) high rollers, but now casinos have thrown all their subtlety out the window. For example, if you hit 21 on ...continue reading "Life is very, very good in Las Vegas right now"
Discount Movie Ticket Nights?
Tell me about your favorite local hats (baseball, 5 panel, trucker, etc).
Le Méridien St. Louis Clayton, seeing an underutilized pool deck, offers season pass for $700
Most weekday guests at Le Méridien St. Louis Clayton are visiting the city for work, spending business hours in the office rather than on site and leaving the hotel’s pool deck mostly empty, General Manager Andrew Hargis said. Seeing an opportunity to change that, the downtown Clayton hotel this summer is offering a pool pass.
Banking turmoil creates opportunities, but not short-term M&A, Enterprise Financial Services' CEO says
The opportunity created for Enterprise by the turmoil in the banking industry, combined with a possible recession, is that it can pick up clients as competitors make fewer commercial loans, said Jim Lally, president and CEO, Enterprise Financial Services
Health care courier firm Associated Couriers eyes new tech to speed up deliveries: Drones
Hazelwood-based courier company Associated Couriers LLC said it will begin using drones to transport medications through a collaboration with San Francisco-based drone company Zipline.
Messenger: Missouri lawmakers still fail college students, even after a funding bump
For decades, tuition rises while state funding drops. The result? Missouri ranks 47th in the nation in per capita funding for higher education.
Lunchtime Photo
Today really is the start of the French Open, so here's a pair of pictures of Court Simonne Mathieu, the newest of the courts at Roland Garros. As you can see in the top picture, it's a sunken court. The entrance leads to the top level, not the bottom. The bottom picture shows the court ...continue reading "Lunchtime Photo"
Boy casually hits hole-in-one at Missouri golf course
Grocery prices are going down
An op-ed in the New York Times today caught my eye: "The Real Reason Your Groceries Are Getting So Expensive." This got me curious: are groceries getting more expensive? I haven't checked for a while. Here's the answer: Food inflation peaked in early 2022 but it's been plummeting since then. Groceries are still more expensive ...continue reading "Grocery prices are going down"
Where's the Best place to get acting lessons
Hair salon recommendation for tenderheaded person / autistic adult
Gas prices not changing
We haven’t always had a debt ceiling
Just as a minor historical note about the debt ceiling, it has been killed off before—for nearly 15 years. Dick Gephardt did it in 1979: He consulted the parliamentarian. "I asked if there was a way that when we pass the budget [the debt ceiling] can be deemed 'raised' to accommodate the budget people are ...continue reading "We haven’t always had a debt ceiling"
Nun whose body shows little decay since 2019 death draws hundreds to rural Missouri
Hundreds of people flocked to a small town in Missouri this week and last to see a Black nun whose body has barely decomposed since 2019. Some say it's a sign of holiness in Catholicism, while others say the lack of decomposition may not be as rare as people think.
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