MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13 Counties and even municipalities are gearing up to tax the heck out of recreational marijuana, the Post-Dispatch reports. Your friendly neighborhood pot dealer is looking more and more like a better bargain.
St. Louis County government needs a new home or substantial upgrades at its aging administration building, but an attempt to spend $5.5 million on developing solutions was shot down Tuesday.
Once upon a time, eating fish on Ash Wednesday and Fridays during Lent was meant to be an act of sacrifice for St. Louis Catholics. That the church fish fry ritual has turned into a highly anticipated season fueled by margaritas, beer and so much of God's cod you'd grow gills if you hit them all might be organized religion's biggest irony, but sacrilege has never tasted so delicious.
Mardi Gras in St. Louis can be summed up in three words: puke, boobs and beads. Since you already expelled of the first, and getting rid of the second isn't against the point, here's an easy to take care of the third. Take your beads downtown to the St. Louis Aquarium ( 201 South 18th Street), and aquarium staff will recycle your beads for you.
EDWARDSVILLE - The Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness (SREE) Series featured Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s Derek Houston, PhD, associate professor in educational leadership, in a recent webinar on Monday, Feb. 13. Houston's current scholarship is centered at the intersection of quantification and criticalism which includes thinking deeply about the training of future scholars. In the webinar, he discussed the pedagogical considerations and possibilities of critical quantification and offered insights into the complexities of the sustainability of critical quantification. “The hope for those who watched the webinar is that they will begin to think deeply and critically about how and where they teach quantitative methods,” said Houston. “I also hope that current and future quantitative methods instructors will think about how they engage with students, particularly with students that may not be or have not been as represented as
The St. Louis Chapter of the Sheet Metal and Air Conditioning Contractors’ National Association (SMACNA) has appointed Susan Miller as its new Chapter Executive. SMACNA is an international trade association representing 3,500 signatory contracting firms with more than 100 chapters throughout the United States, Canada, Australia, and Brazil. A lifelong St. Louis resident, Susan graduated from […]
A Facebook post by the St. Francois County Sheriff's Department is going viral after they explained how they caught a man accused of stealing catalytic converters.
South Grand patrons rejoice. La Crazy Margarita is now open at the corner of Hartford Street and Grand, enlivening a piece of restaurant real estate that had sat worryingly empty for months. Now, the atmosphere in the restaurant is bright and lively.
What if the resources that are available to communities when disaster strikes and things are at their worst were also available year round to help our communities become their best? Nicholas Oberfrank, or Obie as he’s known around Cherokee Street, has seen the worst. The Florida and New Jersey native is the founder and current […]
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