Today I learned that the moon is getting smaller: The moon’s shrinking has been measurable, but small. It has contracted about 150 feet in diameter over the last few hundred million years. Small indeed! That comes to about a quarter of a millimeter every 10,000 years. At that rate, by the time the sun turns ...continue reading "The moon is shrinking"
The 2024 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration, "Now is the Time," event took place Monday after being rescheduled due to inclement weather on Jan. 16.
Daniel Spratt of Litchfield, Illinois, feels cast aside because he weighs more than 600 pounds and desperately needs medical attention. He's been bedridden since August 2023, when he fell and broke his leg.
Cops will charge someone with assault, whether or not they’ve been actually assaulted. It’s a charge often added on top of resisting arrest and can be triggered by any movement or action that results in physical contact with an officer. Throwing a snowball in the direction of a cop can be considered assault, depending on […]
The St. Louis Police Department is now more than 48 hours into a manhunt for a juvenile murder suspect who escaped from the city’s juvenile detention center Saturday evening.
With nearly half a million properties in St. Louis County, the majority of owners saw an increase in their home's value, but many have questioned the county's algorithm as some St. Louisans are left troubled with taxes.
I happened to come across a short piece by Lydia Polgreen about the "Fast Cars" duet at the Grammys featuring Tracy Chapman and Luke Combs. In a throwaway sentence at the end she said this about Chapman: She was a poet of the despair wrought by the cruel economic vision of the Reagan years. What ...continue reading "What would a poet of despair say about the 21st century?"
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