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Matt Yglesias asks today whether the big rise in murders in 2020 was due to COVID or George Floyd. It's a tricky question: COVID basically started on March 11 and George Floyd was killed on May 25. They're so close together that they're hard to disentangle. But naturally I thought I'd try. FBI figures don't ...continue reading "The 2020 murder spike was probably due to the murder of George Floyd"

The St. Louis County Police Department has canceled an endangered silver advisory for a Ballwin woman who disappeared Tuesday morning.

John Carlos Armstead, Sr. will be honored at the Salute to Excellence in Education Scholarship & Awards Gala on November 4, 2023. Armstead is Assistant School Leader of Instruction at KIPP Inspire Academy.

Stop in every Tuesday from 7:30 to 9:30 for Trivia Night with Mack and Mace at Steve's Hot Dogs. Stop at the table to sign up. Come back every week, […]

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Republican Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft said he plans to appeal the ruling.

Roundup-related lawsuits have dogged Bayer since it acquired the brand as part of its $63 billion purchase of Monsanto in 2018.

by Dr. John Gaal Editor’s Note: Each week, Dr. John Gaal, director of worker wellness for the Missouri Works Initiative, a non-profit workforce formed by the Missouri AFL-CIO, collects and comments on news and trends in workforce wellness and life balance. Construction Forum carries the Worker Wellness & Well-Being Blog as a regular feature. The […]

Peter Suderman reminds us today that the congressional budgeting process is in tatters: Since the 1990s, Congress has consistently failed to follow its own budgetary process rules, which call for writing, debating and passing a dozen single-subject appropriations bills over the course of each fiscal year.... Instead, Congress has relied on continuing resolutions, which are ...continue reading "Why can’t we pass a budget the old fashioned way?"

This time of year, Brookdale Farms gives us the heebie-jeebies. Plagued by evil, the Field of Nightmares admits only the bravest souls. Here, spirits roam the land and haunt the […]

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Nineteen year ago I started this blog as a distraction from my father’s heart attack and slow recovery. It was late 2004 and social media & video streaming apps didn’t exist yet — or at least not widely available to the general public. Blogs were the newest means of communication ...

Cahokia Heights residents say they are tired of shoveling sewage out of their houses every time it rains.

The cause of the fire is under investigation.