Apparently President Biden is fond of the British Parliament's tradition of Question Time, because that what tonight's State of the Union address resembled. The crowd heckled him and he heckled them back—with a big grin on his face. Biden's finest moment came about halfway through, when he baited Republicans about Social Security and Medicare. Some ...continue reading "A very, very brief review of tonight’s State of the Union speech"
A St. Louis family has been trying for more than a year to get a woman to stop making racist threats against them at their south city home. She first broke in with a hammer, and has repeatedly harassed them…
U.S. Representative Cori Bush (D-St. Louis) did not say a word at tonight's State of Union, but she still spoke volumes. Her guest to the State of the Union address was Michael Brown Senior, the father of Michael Brown, the unarmed Black teenager who was killed by a white police officer in Ferguson in 2014. The incident was the impetus for Bush's involvement in activism as she pointed out in a tweet yesterday.
Campbell made a deal after the state’s only witness, who identified Campbell as the gunman, refused to testify, according to a St. Louis court press release.
Mayor Dan Borgmeyer and City Councilman Tom Besselman were the top 2 vote-getters in St. Charles' mayoral primary and advance to the April 4 runoff election.
A St. Louis County man who claimed he was nearly 2,000 miles away from the quadruple homicide for which he was convicted was executed tonight at a Missouri prison in Bonne Terre. Leonard Taylor, 58, died by lethal injection at 6:15 p.m.
What's the best way of comparing violent crime between countries, as I did yesterday? Lots of people are asking me this—in Twitter's usual polite fashion—so maybe you'd be interested in a brief primer. The short answer is that it's really hard. The two biggest problems are both ones of measurement: Different countries put different sets ...continue reading "Murder vs. violent crime: Which is more reliable?"
WINCO Window Company announces the retirement of Bill Krenn, president of WINCO. Krenn has been with WINCO since 1996 and has served in various capacities, including director of human resources, treasurer, vice president, and chief financial officer before being appointed as the company’s president in 2017. As WINCO’s president, Krenn ensured that the overall direction […]
The recent topping out milestone of the University of Missouri Health Care’s new Children’s Hospital in Columbia keeps the construction project on schedule for substantial completion this fall and for opening next year. A PARIC-Barton Malow joint venture, with teams in St. Louis and Kansas City, was selected to build the facility. The seven-story structure […]
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