In the hours after 10 young people were shot downtown, police are focusing their investigation on the fifth floor of a Washington Avenue building, which despite being an office space, had a group of youths partying in it at 1 a.m. on a Sunday. St. Louis Metropolitan Police Chief Robert Tracy said at a press conference today 17-year-old Makao Moore was killed and nine others aged 15 to 19 were injured by gunfire this morning around 1 a.m. in the building near the intersection of North 14th Street and Washington Avenue.
This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is radix with a summary of Reddit CEO Steve Huffman’s comments about the blackout protest: “We don’t do things for free, so all the unpaid mods should get back to work” is quite the statement. In second place, it’s miked with some additional info on […]
In recognition of Juneteenth tomorrow, here is a program I wrote about a couple of years ago for the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. I don’t think I ever uploaded it to the blog, and if I did, the link is surely dead by now, so it seems worth reposting. Juneteenth is an especially significant holiday for […]
Each year during the month of June, the Lindenwood Park Neighborhood Association (LPNA) holds the Lawn & Garden Contest. We … More2023 Lawn & Garden Contest
Ruby Cramer has a long profile of Florida first lady Casey DeSantis in the Washington Post today, and the main takeaway is that "Ron and Casey" are a unit—a very private, very intimidating unit. It's worth a read. But I was amused by this bit of gratuitous shade thrown on Ron: In 2011, [Casey] was ...continue reading "Ha ha. Obama’s book was better than DeSantis’s."
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