Putting on two massive tribute concerts to late drummer Taylor Hawkins this month was undoubtedly quite the undertaking, but Foo Fighters did have a guide to help out. As Queen…
The Europeans are always ahead of us with their inflation data because they're willing to release "flash" estimates before the month is even over. For September, Eurostat reported annual inflation of 10%, which is bad enough, but that's year-over-year and doesn't capture their recent big increase. If you look instead at the monthly data, inflation ...continue reading "Eurozone inflation skyrocketed in September"
St. Louis-based Centene, the nation’s largest Medicaid managed-care insurer, will pay $14.2 million, according to Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey.
Republican Eric Schmitt leads Democrat Trudy Busch Valentine by double digits in Missouri's U.S. Senate race, according to a new poll from Emerson College.
Today, September 30, marks the 25th anniversary of the release of Bob Dylan's lauded 30th studio album, Time Out of Mind. The collection of 11 new original tunes was considered…
A surging drug overdose death epidemic is cutting a deep, jagged line across the St. Louis region, sparing almost no town or neighborhood. More than 1,000 people in the St. Louis area died from drug overdoses last year — a record number — and fentanyl, a synthetic opioid 100 times more powerful than morphine, is the biggest reason why.
Everyone’s got a hunger for data. Constitutional rights sometimes prevent those with a hunger from serving themselves. But when they’ve got third parties on top of third parties, all Fourth Amendment bets are off. Data brokers are getting rich selling government agencies the data they want at low, low prices, repackaging information gathered from other […]
In addition to its monthly inflation figures, the BEA also released personal spending data today, and it was as boring as it could possibly be. Adjusted for inflation, disposable personal income went up 0.9% and personal spending went up 1.2% (both of these are month-to-month changes that have been annualized). Here's what this looks like ...continue reading "Income and expenditures were up slightly in August"
The Beatles have debuted the first take of their classic experimental song "Tomorrow Never Knows," one of the bonus tracks from the forthcoming deluxe reissue of the Fab Four's landmark…
A northwest Missouri man pleaded guilty Friday to killing two brothers from Wisconsin after they came to his farm in 2019 to collect a debt from a cattle contract.
People kept asking Ed Wheatley when he would write a book on the history of bowling. St. Louis’ bowling history was magical — Wheatley couldn’t deny that. In 1958, a St. Louis squad, considered the “dream team,” set the record for the highest score — a record that would last for over 35 years.