Silence isn’t just the absence of sound. It has a texture—and sometimes it feels so thick you can almost lean on it. That’s why a quiet street can feel completely different depending on what’s happening in the world around it. One kind of quiet feels open and relaxed, like a pause between conversations. Another feels sealed shut, like the world has pulled a blanket over itself. The difference isn’t only in your head. It comes from how sound moves, what the landscape
On January 19, 1915, the world saw the first large-scale aerial bombing raid on Britain when German Zeppelin airships attacked towns on England’s east coast. Air raids were not entirely new, but this moment showed how quickly war was expanding beyond battlefields and into everyday civilian life. At the time, it forced governments and ordinary people to confront a new kind of danger: attacks arriving from the sky with little warning. It still matters today because it marked an early turning
The Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis is hosting their annual food drive in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, and cars began lining up early Monday morning for the event.
ST. LOUIS -- A Cold Weather Advisory remains in place to our east and northeast. It does not include St. Louis city or county. Gusty northwesterly winds continue through the morning hours. Wind chills will be subzero in many areas come daybreak. Despite a bright day, temperatures don't make it very far into the 20s [...]
KANSAS CITY — Roughly 1% of the more than 53,000 Missourians who received abortions over the last 10 years in Illinois and Kansas experienced complications, ranging from infection to incomplete abortions to hemorrhaging. Lawyers for Planned Parenthood and the Missouri Attorney General’s Office are dissecting dozens of Missouri’s Targeted Regulation of Abortion, or TRAP laws, […]
A Missouri House candidate’s history of domestic violence. A Highway Patrol trooper’s sexual abuse of a fellow officer at a work conference. A lawsuit between prominent St. Louis attorneys. All of these cases were removed from Missouri’s public court database. Searching for them online, it appeared as if they never existed. Cases assigned a high […]
If left up to the Trump administration, Martin Luther King Jr. Day would likely be nullified as a federal holiday. Trump used his executive powers to change the observance of MLK Day by cancelling it as a free-admission day for those who wish to visit our national parks during federal holidays. The order also applies […]
Pink Floyd is giving fans a chance to enjoy their 1972 concert film, Pink Floyd at Pompeii – MCMLXXII, from the comfort of their home. The band is set to release the…
Diamond owner L.B. Eckelkamp Jr., CEO of the Franklin County-based Bank of Washington, said he's been approached by several developers interested in building data centers on his land.
Perhaps it is because this is the very coldest time of the year for us that this previous post came to mind? This is about my brief and single experience with a collector of matchbook covers. A hot topic if ever there was one. Note there was a Part Two to this post. The link […]
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