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Here's a tweet today about the high cost of renting: I’m not a big RETVRN guy but we really do need to get back to the time when urban housing was so cheap and plentiful that any kid could show up in San Francisco or New York and find a place to live that they ...continue reading "The myth of postwar New York City"

The idea of the incentive plan was brought up late last month so the district could re-coop millions in lost revenue because of the pandemic.

Noon Sunday, February 4th, Piasa Sierra Club Seed Swap at Alton YMCA, Alton IL. Register March 8th-9th Midwestern Herb & Garden Show in Mount Vernon, Illinois (little over an hour drive from St. Louis City) 9 am to Noon March 9th Seed St. Louis Plant Sale: Potatoes, Strawberries, Asparagus, Mushroom Spawn, Onions. Noon March 9th … Continue reading Upcoming STL Plant Sales →

Lake St. Louis was packed Saturday morning as many prepared to take a dip for a good cause through the annual Polar Plunge.

Mardi Gras is right around the corner, and celebrations are already kicking off in St. Louis' historic Soulard neighborhood.

A story in Springfield News-Leader (paywall) about the Springfield-Greene County Library’s Heirloom Seed Library caught my attention. Cardholders may “check out” up to four seed packets from the Heirloom Seed Library, available at six library branches, per visit, just like books. The goal is for patrons to plant seeds and later harvest seeds to replenish … Continue reading Seed Libraries in Missouri →

KSNF/KODE - Just before midnight into Saturday, residents from around four states, including Missouri, began flooding social media with reports of an earthquake. Residents in southeast Kansas, southwest Missouri, and northwest Arkansas, along with northeastern Oklahoma, are all reported furniture shaking and cabinet doors opening. The US Geological Survey reports a 5.1 magnitude trembler NW [...]

Some familiar faces are sticking with the St. Louis Battlehawks through the UFL merger. It remains to be seen if one of last year's leaders, quarterback A.J. McCarron, will return for another spring football season in St. Louis.

Keynan Middleton officially signed a one-year deal with the Cardinals on Saturday. The deal includes a club option for 2025.

Eckert’s, a family farm in Belleville, Illinois, welcomes you to the Cozy Cider Cabin. Open from Jan. 10 to Feb. 25, the wintery pop-up bar boasts a mountainside-cabin atmosphere with […]

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After nearly three weeks as evacuees, the former tenants of Heritage House Apartments got a much-needed dose of good news Saturday. That’s when St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones announced that the city has secured at least one hotel, and was in the process of securing a second, to provide rooms for the evacuees, including 120 still sheltering at the Hilton by the St. Louis International Airport.

Caitlan Flanagan has an odd piece in the Atlantic today asserting that American university professors are no longer interested in presenting both sides of controversial issues—and I use the word assert advisedly here. The piece is odd because she presents literally no evidence for her argument even though she's written a whole book on the ...continue reading "How to think for yourself"

Jerod Broadbooks, 26, the band director at Barnwell Middle School, finished just more than six minutes behind the top finishers at Saturday's Olympic marathon trials.

A woman accused of targeting an elderly St. Charles County man in a fraud scheme that yielded hundreds of thousands of dollars has turned herself in to authorities in Georgia.