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In its simplest terms, the ongoing debt ceiling fiasco just continues to perplex me. At first, Joe Biden says explicitly that there will be no negotiations over the debt ceiling. The United States pays its bills and that's that. Fine. But the only way to do that is to instruct Treasury to keep paying bills ...continue reading "What’s up with the debt ceiling?"

The St. Louis County Council passed a bill earlier this week that aims to change how pedestrians navigate the streets, specifically one that would make it illegal to stand, sit or walk on roadways in most cases.

Barak Mattingly was once the most influential Republican in St. Louis. That meant more in his time than it does today. Mattingly died in 1956, long before I got here, but a friend and I once interviewed his mistress. She…

The hype comes down to Saturday's first-ever meeting between new MLS state rivals Sporting Kansas City and St. Louis City SC.

For those who choose to attend college, deciding on where to study—and which field of study to pursue—can be impactful. Each year, about 3 million undergraduate degrees are granted and 2 million of them are bachelor's degrees. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, the top three degree programs for the period 2009-2010 through [...]

Normally on Saturday we have our “this week in history” posts, highlighting Techdirt stories from many years ago. But this week I wanted to highlight a story that didn’t happen on Techdirt, but turned into a Techdirt thing. Twenty years ago today, actress/singer Barbra Streisand sued photographer Kenneth Adelman for daring to photograph her coastal […]

A new batch of states are looking to legislate the level of informed consent when it comes to medical students performing pelvic exams for educational purposes on unconscious patients.

Police on Saturday identified the man as Kirk Lowe Jr., 40, of St. Louis.

A woman died from injuries nearly one month after she was struck by a car in north St. Louis, according to the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department.

Angela Brown, 65, was pronounced dead at a local hospital earlier this week after being struck by a car on April 19.

The victim told ISP that he was driving eastbound on the Missouri side of the Stan Musial Bridge when he heard gunshots and felt pain.

A Chesterfield man died Thursday after a road-rage fight in a Dierbergs parking lot.

The incident took place on the border between the Old North St. Louis and the St. Louis Place neighborhoods.

Grocery shoppers continued to feel a slight reprieve in April as grocery prices fell month-over-month for the second consecutive month, after a run of increases spanning back to September 2020. The decline was moderate, at about 0.2% since March, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data. It certainly didn't undo the two years of historically [...]