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A terminally-ill Kansas man's hospital room was raided by cops because he used a weed vape and THC paste to ease the symptoms of the cancer that will kill him within weeks.

A dusting of snow fell upon wet or frozen pavement Sunday night into Monday morning.

Back in June we wrote about a blockbuster article in Buzzfeed by Emily Baker-White detailing how ByteDance engineers in China were still accessing data on US TikTok users. That was notable, given that ByteDance had signed this big deal with Oracle, while former President Trump held a proverbial gun to its head, to try to […]

The St. Louis Regional Racial Healing + Justice Fund awarded $16,000 grants to five St. Louis-area organizations to help students and the community recover from the school shooting at Central Visual and Performing Arts High School and Collegiate School of…

After the Andromeda Galaxy, my next astrophotography project was the Iris Nebula. I didn't have any particular reason. It's pretty and a little less well known than some of the other, bigger nebulas. But there's a sad story behind this. As usual, I did some test runs to figure out what settings I wanted and ...continue reading "Lunchtime Photo"

Hunt for license plates leads collectors to St. Louis shop.

Staying calm – and knowing your rights – can go a long way if your flight is canceled, experts say.

Surgical masks and respirators will be required inside buildings at the Gateway Arch.

I keep reading people—progressives, of course—asking "What do they mean by woke, anyway?" Well, I'm here to help. There is, naturally, an original meaning of the word from progressives themselves. It's an old metaphor that was re-popularized by Black Lives Matter after the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson. It meant, roughly, being perceptive of ...continue reading "“What does woke mean, anyway?”"

Masks will once again be required for all visitors and staff at the Gateway Arch starting Tuesday, Dec. 27.

A private company can legally declare it has the right to refuse service to anyone (with a very small number of limitations under the law, mostly around discrimination against protected classes). The application of facial recognition tech makes it much easier to do. Rather than post photos and bad checks on the back wall to […]

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Hey, do you remember that one of the world's largest and most trusted crypto firms crashed earlier this year, prompting plenty of assertions that crypto was ruined for good? It did and it did. But a mere four months later, when FTX went belly-up due to very similar business practices (i.e., embezzlement and fraud¹) it ...continue reading "FTX wasn’t the first big crypto implosion this year"

Let me get this straight. It turns out that most of the groups dedicated to helping migrants don't actually object to red state governors busing them to other states. They don't even really object all that much to migrants being dropped off in freezing weather in Washington DC. They won't be there for long anyway. ...continue reading "The real cruelty of migrant busing is right on the surface"

Demetrious Johnson, a St. Louis native who grew up in public housing projects before playing football professionally and serving thousands of needy families through his charitable foundation, died Saturday, Christmas Eve, at 61.

Soon after Elon took over Twitter and fired everyone, we wondered (somewhat jokingly) if there was anyone left at the company who was aware of the FTC’s consent decree with the company, signed originally in 2011, but which runs for 30 years, and which was updated back in May of 2022. These documents have some […]