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Santa Claus is coming to town - here's how you can track his journey.

This is the fifth year that the Celebrity Banquet Center has hosted this toy drive and giveaway. The ultimate goal is to make the holidays brighter for hundreds of kids. 

The state of Illinois will ring in the new year with more than 300 new laws, ranging in scope from public safety to healthcare and many other sectors.

The woman was identified as Laura Caroline Lynch by the Texas Department of Public Safety.

The 2023 calendar year marked a time of change in St. Louis professional sports.

Radio announcer Joey Zanaboni scores a tree for $30 on a lot in Maplewood.

RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — More than 90 Palestinians, including dozens from an extended family, were killed in Israeli airstrikes on two homes in Gaza, rescuers and hospital officials said Saturday, a day after the U.N. chief warned that nowhere is safe in the territory and that Israel’s offensive creates “massive obstacles” to distribution of [...]

Was our recent bout of inflation "transitory"? That depends on how you define it. But since a picture is worth a thousand words, let's look at a picture of core PCE, the Fed's favored measure of inflation: The inflationary surge we typically associate with 1980 actually started in the late '60s and didn't fully recede ...continue reading "Yep, Team Transitory was right all along"

There's a good chance you or someone you know needs to get a little more shopping done before Christmas Day on Monday. If you venture out, brace yourself for large crowds.

Five Years Ago This week in 2018, a bunch of entertainment industry lobbyists were given a chance to pay $5000 to attend the Grammys with two congressmen, an appeals court handed another loss to MP3 reseller ReDigi, and copyright lobbyists were failing to keep their story straight on the EU Copyright Directive (the problems of […]

Here's an interesting chart showing post-Brexit immigration into the UK: Apparently the Brexiteers promised a new immigration system that favored skilled workers, and they delivered. After it went into effect immigration from the EU (i.e., plumbers from Poland) plummeted while immigration from the rest of the world (doctors from Delhi) tripled. Overall immigration has increased ...continue reading "After Brexit, immigration to Britain is up"

The state of Missouri is expecting a decline in general revenue in 2024 following a record-setting budget approved earlier this year.

This is just one person, but I thought it was worth sharing. It came in response to my question about antisemitism on college campuses: I recently just started working on a college campus, and the question I get all the time now (including earlier today) is “What’s up with all the antisemitism on campus? Are ...continue reading "Antisemitism at universities: A response"

Around 429,000 Missouri children would be eligible to receive $51.5 million in food benefits next summer if the state participates.