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My last two trips out of town have been for Harry Truman-related events. Earlier this year I went to DC, when the statue of HST was installed in the U.S. Capitol. This week I was humming: “Kansas City Here I Come!” The annual Truman Library fundraiser, aptly titled “Wild About Harry”, was held at the... 

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Today the Washington Post tells the story of Joe Moss, a Republican and conservative Christian who engineered a takeover of the Ottowa County board of commissioners in Michigan. It all started in church: They settled into the pews and listened as their pastor warned of the “many people” in the country who were “trying to ...continue reading "MAGA Republicans take over a county, and it all started with masks"

EDWARDSVILLE - Edwardsville boys track sophomore Clayton Lakatos has had a good start to the 2023 track season. The future looks so bright for the young track and field star. Clayton is an iCAN Clinic Male Athlete of the Month for the Tigers. Some of Clayton's track highlights in 2023 have been in the Illinois Top Times indoor meet on March 25 in Bloomington, having run the 60-meter hurdles in 8.81 seconds and was part of the 4x200 meter relay team with Kellen Brnfre, Zach Lane, and Darren Wilson, winning their heat at 1:30.56 and finishing second in their heat of the 4x400 meter relay with Lane, Wilson and Xavier Valdez at 3:29.63. In his season's outdoor debut in the Norm Armstrong Invitational at Belleville West High on April 7, Lakatos had a very good day, running the 110 meters hurdles at 16.30 seconds, then was second in the 300-meter hurdles, coming home at 40.52 seconds. Clayton is the son of the Tigers' legendary boy track and field coach Chad Lakatos, who has an outstanding

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We've made it to the final weekend of the regular season for the XFL. The St. Louis Battlehawks likely won't know their fate for playoffs until Sunday, but they can improve their odds with a Saturday matinee to end the regular season.

People misplace things. It happens all the time. It has nothing to do with age.

The girl was found safe Saturday morning.

Bud Light has fired its VP of marketing. NRO's Jim Geraghty comments: When the Bud Light controversy blew up, some of us contended the company had made a serious error, that alienated and repelled a certain portion of existing customers while not attracting significant numbers of new customers. We were assured that we were old ...continue reading "Right-wing hate wins another round"

Fabricating Empire examines the relationship between the development of Central European folk costume and Austrian modern design, especially the textile department of the Wiener Werkstätte, or Vienna Workshops.   Taking

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Offering a fresh view of two of the most experimental painters of the 20th century, Monet/Mitchell: Painting the French Landscape is the first exhibition in the U.S. to examine the

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The Higgins Armory Collection at the Worcester Art Museum is the nation’s second largest collection of arms and armor, including more than 1,500 objects ranging from ancient Egypt to 19th-century

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The Pulitzer Arts Foundation presents The Nature of Things: Medieval Art and Ecology, 1100-1550, the first exhibition to explore the impact of artmaking on the environment in the second half

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The Pulitzer Arts Foundation presents an exhibition of career-spanning work by Faye HeavyShield, an artist whose poetic minimal sensibility and use of humble materials is closely bound to the power

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1972 Fischer/Spassky: The Match, its Origin, and Influence celebrates the 50th anniversary of the American Robert “Bobby” Fischer’s historic win over the Russian Boris Spassky in the legendary 1972 World

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St. Louis is a kaleidoscope of architecture, filled with structures of every age, shape, and size. In Coloring STL, Missouri History Museum visitors will interact with these fascinating buildings in

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A man was killed just after midnight Saturday in the city's Mark Twain neighborhood.

Missouri last week became the first state to join a national program aiming to improve the success of people leaving prison and those on probation or parole.

Who’s that kid that can travel through time? It’s you!   Follow the adventures of three friends as they travel back in time to learn from real-life inspirational heroes when

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Take an overseas adventure in this immersive exhibit that transports families to China, a country where a quickly changing modern lifestyle intersects with ancient values. Explore what life is like

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