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Johnny Scott, longtime president of the East St. Louis Branch of the NAACP, died earlier this week at the age of 86.

The suspect has not been apprehended.

The good news for Nikki Haley is that she's risen from 5% to 10% in the polls: The bad news is that in September she was 47 points behind Trump. Today, with Trump doing barely anything aside from writing unhinged posts on Truth Social, she's 49 points behind.

For the first time in nearly a decade, the Missouri Tigers are a 10-win team. Mizzou Football also appears positioned for a New Year's Six bowl bid.

I know this is hardly a brilliant insight, but I continue to be sort of stunned by how absolutist Americans are—or seem to be, anyway—on the subject of Israel and its enemies. It hardly requires a scholar's dedication to nuance to understand that both sides have acted horrifically at various times over the past century. ...continue reading "Israelis and Arabs have both acted abominably over the years"

An early taste of winter is coming for some, but perhaps not everyone within the St. Louis metro.

Our garage still has its original garage door. It's old school: a flat hunk of wood that levers upward on a hinge to open. Marian has long wanted to replace it with a modern roll-up paneled door, but I've resisted because the old one is fine. Why bother? But luckily for her, some house painters ...continue reading "A question for the hive mind about garage doors"

Still, northern Missouri and central Illinois will see up to 3 inches of snow. Parts of mid-Missouri could also see a wintry mix, including as far south as Jefferson City.

Leonard Griggs, a former Air Force colonel and longtime director of the St. Louis Lambert International Airport, died earlier this week at the age of 92.