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The parade included floats, balloons and high school marching bands

“We are trying to cover the entire cemetery at Jefferson Barracks,” said Kathy Schulte with Wreaths Across America.

"Having the archbishop with us today is very special. This is a new archbishop, so this is the first time he's been here for Thanksgiving."

Researchers and descendants of its speakers are working hard to preserve Chiwere, an endangered Siouan language originally spoken by the Otoe, Iowa and Missouria tribes.

Check out this interactive map to see the age of buildings in St. Louis, St. Louis County and St. Charles County.

‘Everyone recognized nothing was the same as it used to be, except the generosity of the St. Louis community.’

An alternative headline might have been, "A Dozen Ways to Ruin your Thanksgiving."

I hate to say it so bluntly, but the pattern of COVID has been that infections spike after Thanksgiving in the US and again following the Christmas period internationally.

For this reason, death rates due to COVID were actually higher in 2021 than 2020, following gatherings during the holiday period.

Theoretically, death rates need not spike next year, as we have vaccines that are proven to reduce hospitalization and death.

Despite ample scientific evidence supporting the protective benefits of COVID-19 vaccinations there are still widespread concerns that they cannot be trusted, and doubtless, this will be a topic of dinner tale conversation over the holidays.

If you're pro-vaccines like me, discussing your position can be a tough conversation because it's not always clear on what basis other people object.

In my opinion, a lot of people claim to object on the basis of science, but under scrutiny, most objections are rooted in philosophical differences.

It's not your job to persuade anyone to get vaccinated and, to some degree, we are ethically obliged to accept the decisions of others, so this article isn't necessarily about changing minds.

It's more about restoring balance and vindicating intuitions, because when faith and philosophy become the last refuge for obstinacy rather than debate, it can be so frustrating to oppose them that one loses a sense of perspective and proportion - and it becomes easy to make others wrong.

I wrote this article over the summer of 2021 and never published it because I knew it would be contentious.

But I wrote it for others whom, like me, had spent the previous 18 months debating the merits of COVID vaccinations with their closest family and friends - and even their friends of friends.

I wasn’t always for mRNA vaccinations and did initially distrust them like many others did too.

I was locked in a relentless debate over their merit until I felt like I had grappled with every anti-vaxxer argument there was with my friends and family members.

Now, my opinion is that there is no philosophical or ethical basis to reject the vaccine, except that if you simply do not want it and do not trust it and cannot explain to others exactly why they feel that way.

That is a belief others are welcome to hold, as is one's right, but my position is: "let's not pretend it's a belief based in science, ethics or philosophy."

I’m sympathetic and compassionate towards anyone who fears the unknown, which I feel is the fundamentally human character that the anti-vaxxer philosophical position is rooted in.

However, I do object to COVID-truthers on social media frequently resorting to “Lies, damned lies, and statistics” as the missourian Mark Twain famously said.

People have been dying because of misinformation and, to me, those deaths seem preventable. Providing others with potentially better ways of thinking is the only weapon a writer has, so I am called to fight. 

In this article, I’m going to attempt to explain why the anti-vaxxer arguments seem more persuasive on face value, but also why these arguments against vaccination ultimately crumble under scrutiny.

We’ll get into the problematic cause of death by any disease, why it matters, and what other myths and mistaken beliefs have taken root in the public health debate around the coronavirus pandemic.

I do care whether you get the vaccine as I think it increases your chances of surviving serious illness and death. That said, you are allowed to believe what you want and think what you think, just as I am. That’s your right, just as it is mine. Go us!

Now... let's get started!

St. Louis and St. Louis County officials said in a statement that they are determining how the money will be allocated.

I was thinking about those blessings for which to be most grateful, but I have decided to write about just one.

The badge had belonged to Robert Tatman, a Champaign officer killed on duty with his own service revolver on Nov. 25, 1967.

A school district spokesman described the lawsuit as ‘frivolous, short-sighted and harmful.’

Firefighters responded to smoke reported from a home, but found a woman who was pronounced dead.

St. Louis family turns death of child into a quest to raise money for research into childhood cancers.

A thick blanket of fallen leaves completely covered the hikers’ feet on Turkey Ridge Trail in St. Louis County.  A leafless forest is great for spotting Missouri’s largest bird — …