The Daily Mail recently conducted a poll asking people what they thought of Joe Biden and Donald Trump. They made a word cloud of the most popular responses, and Trump was so proud of his that he posted it on Truth Social: Apparently Trump loves the idea that people associate him with power, revenge, dictatorship, ...continue reading "Donald Trump, the revenge president"
Two men are recovering after shooting each other in Wood River, Illinois, early Tuesday morning after police said a father took matters into his own hands.
When we’re young, impressionable, and financially incapable of donating significant amounts of money to super PACs, we’re taught that the American government is a system of checks and balances. Civics classes explain there are three branches of government: executive, legislative, and judicial — all of which are supposed to be independent and equally powerful. The […]
Dozens of iPads were stolen in the middle of the night during a brazen burglary, leaving St. Louis election officials rushing to lock down private information.
The Missouri Department of Transportation and Illinois Department of Transportation are preparing for the first flakes of the season after an usually warm Christmas Day in the bi-state area.
The leader of Niche Food Group also hinted that he could be looking for as many as three additional locations of the food concept that previously operated in downtown St. Louis.
Two areas of low pressure will move over the area Wednesday through Friday morning bringing two rounds of rain and snow showers. Find out when each round will peak, when snow is most likely, and how much is expected to…
Oh come on: As 2023 comes to a close, holiday shoppers offered yet another sign that the U.S. economy will roar into the new year. On Tuesday, fresh retail sales data from Mastercard showed that consumers spent big on gifts, meals and apparel in November and December.... U.S. retail sales between Nov. 1 and Dec. ...continue reading "Holiday sales were flat this year"
Every year or two there's a plagiarism scandal that makes the front page. The latest one concerns some stuff written a long time ago by Claudine Gay, president of Harvard University. I am, as usual, unimpressed. With only occasional exceptions, these things are always the same: the culprit has been caught taking a sentence here ...continue reading "Most “plagiarism” is a nothingburger"