In 2020, St. Louis roots rocker John Henry released an album, Out at Sea, just as the pandemic hit. After a series of delays, Henry was determined to find a way to play an album-release concert mid-pandemic.
The Missouri House gave first-round approval to a $1 billion personal and corporate income tax cut Tuesday, as Republicans pushed the bill through despite Democratic warnings that vital services would be starved for funds.
The St. Louis Cardinals are getting closer and closer to forming the Opening Day roster, and two candidates in a crowded pool of pitchers will not start the season with the big-league club.
ST. LOUIS -- Two players hit the $211,000 Show Me Cash jackpot on March 8, 2023. One of the players just claimed their $105,500 prize at the lottery's St. Louis regional office. The other ticket remains unclaimed. The winner who already claimed the ticket purchased it at the QuikTrip on Lemay Ferry Road. The other [...]
Well, here we go again. For years now, the legacy news industry, often led by lobbyists for Rupert Murdoch, have been pushing a bizarre plan to tax links on the internet. The entire rationale for this plan seems to be “news organizations used to be rolling in easy money, they failed to innovate with the […]
Over the past year or two I've commented on three conventional narratives that strike me as dead wrong: The Afghanistan withdrawal was a disaster. The CDC's response to COVID-19 was atrocious. Silicon Valley Bank was a time bomb waiting to go off. The common thread for all of these was an almost instant desire to ...continue reading "Narratives of doom get set in stone almost instantly these days. Why?"
Young goaltender Joel Hofer made the most of his "emergency" stint for the St. Louis Blues this weekend, so much it seems he's won the chance to stay at the top level for the rest of the season.
In 1995, St. Louis County prosecutor Doug Sidel won a life sentence against Gary Muehlberg for murdering an acquaintance named Kenneth “Doc” Atchison whom Muehlberg lured to his house under the pretense of selling him a car. At the time, Sidel had no idea he was putting away an infamous serial killer. At the time prosecutors had no information tying Muehlberg to other crimes, a court spokesperson says.
Much like my exes, the Saint Louis Zoo has decided it cannot handle a strong-willed individual and decided to part ways with Ben the Andean Bear. Ben, who escaped his enclosure twice during his time in St. Louis, will be moved to a zoo in Texas. The zoo is citing his “unique personality” as a reason for the move, which is code for too much to handle.