From St. Louis Public Radio: One of the early commitments from the $500 million that St. Louis received in pandemic aid was grants for small businesses and nonprofits in the northern part of the city. But the $37 million has been slow to flow to those entities since aldermen and the mayor approved the appropriation. […]
I’ve mentioned a few times that one of the decentralized social media services I’m following closely is nostr, which is an incredibly lightweight protocol, enabling lots of people to (very simply) create their own relays and clients. Unlike Mastodon or Bluesky, Nostr isn’t federated. You don’t join a server. You just get a key pair… […]
The Fed is finally backing off its endless series of interest rate hikes—but only slightly: The Federal Reserve is leaving interest rates unchanged for the first time since spring 2022, signaling a new chapter in the central bank’s fraught fight against inflation. ....The Fed also signaled more rate hikes would come before the end of ...continue reading "Fed finally backs away from yet another rate increase"
The Butler Brothers building project includes a rooftop deck and pool, with views of the new soccer stadium, plus more amenities that make The Victor seem more like a hotel.
In 2014, after more than a decade of lobbying, Congress passed a bill that transferred land near Oak Flat, Arizona, to a mining company that planned to build a huge copper mine on the land. This prompted opposition—and a lawsuit—from an Apache resistance group led by Wendsler Nosie Sr., a 64-year-old Apache elder, which claims ...continue reading "Is Oak Flat sacred?"
Sol Touch Massage and Reiki has recently opened at 3325 Cherokee at Louisiana, and owner Isabela is excited to bring her special brand of community-forward healing to the South St. Louis community. The new business lets her focus on what she loves most: healing others through massage, reiki, and acknowledging both the physical and energy […]
Letter To The Editor: When younger, many of us were required to take one (1) hour of Physical Education each day of the week. If you attended an older middle school or high school as I did, and if your memories of the venerable gym locker resemble mine, the smells aggregated into a pungent odor. Gym temperatures were predictable since heating or cooling locker rooms was not a high priority. Locker room floors were concrete and tile - cool to frigid in the winter; and, the lighting was dim and hot water for showers nonexistent. But the best evidence proving you had entered the locker room was the assortment of miss-matched athletic footwear and worn jerseys which, after a time, emitted a smell so odious one’s natural instinct was to hold your nose and gag. Naturally, had simple standards been established and enforced on a routine basis the old gym locker could have passed the “smell test.” On May 2, the Government Relations Committee of the Madison County Board me
Bunge painted the deal as one that marries each side's specialties and strengths in different types of crops and services at different stages of the food supply chain.
By Bryce Gray and Ashley Vargo St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Many fans were upset when The Police broke up in 1986, and while they did reunite for a tour in 2007, it sure sounds like guitarist Andy Summers wishes they could have made more…
Now that cannabis is legal in Missouri, drug-sniffing police dogs face early retirement if they are attracted to the smell of marijuana. Because some police dogs are sensitive to the odor of pot, they can compromise an investigation and prevent a successful drug prosecution. If a dog is trained to detect marijuana as well as […]
MidAmerica St. Louis Airport on Tuesday opened its new $34 million terminal addition, helping the Mascoutah, Illinois, airport to continue growing its number of annual passengers while providing them with the best possible experience, airport and government officials said.
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