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Metro East furniture company Kloss opens an 80,000-square-foot South County location
The space, formerly a Schnucks grocery store, proved attractive since it is not far from a prominent site that once housed furniture retailers. Development costs for the new space totaled more than $2 million.
'Relatively normal flight schedule' at Southwest Friday
Southwest Airlines Co. (NYSE: LUV) officials on Friday were hoping to close out 2022 this weekend with near-normal flight operations at airports across the country.
FlightAware reported early Friday that Southwest had just 39 canceled flights nationwide, and the Associated Press Friday afternoon reported a "relatively normal flight schedule" at the airline.
That’s considerably different from passengers’ experience over the course of the past week. The airline has been operating at just a…
3 former St. Louis aldermen who took bribes designated to minimum-security camps
Three former St. Louis aldermen will spend the next several years in minimum-security satellite camps in Arkansas, Illinois and Texas.
Arabia Steamboat's future is uncertain after deal with St. Charles falls through
Kansas City's Arabia Steamboat Museum was supposed to move to St. Charles, but the deal fell through, leaving the museum's future uncertain.
Bold Prediction: Loop Trolley Will Try To Get Some of That Kroenke Cash
Jealous of the groups that received NFL settlement money, the perennially cash-strapped transportation boondoggle that calls itself the Loop Trolley will extend the bottomless black hole it calls its coffers forward Oliver Twist style in the hopes of securing some more funding. Leadership throughout the region will concede that the trolley is pointless and unpopular but will insist that we need to give it a couple hundred million dollars or else the federal government will never talk to us again.
Bold Prediction: Mike Parson Will Go After Google
A befuddled Mike Parson, eager to hop aboard the right-wing anti-Big Tech train but very confused by the internet, will accuse Google of hacking after the site autocompletes a phrase in his search bar in a way he doesn't like. At a press conference, Parson will declare that the state is committed to "standing up against any and all perpetrators who attempt to steal personal information and harm Missourians" and will further add that "there is no way Google could have added the word 'idiot' to my search for 'Missouri governor' without hacking into the mainframe of my computer."
Bold Prediction: St. Louis City Will Find Innovative Ways To Avoid Transparency
The city's refusal to release records to journalists and other members of the public has been a slow-burning story this whole year and a major disappointment to civic boosters who expect this behavior from politicos at the state level but are disheartened to see it here in St. Louis. Unfortunately, we predict this problem is going to get a lot worse — and weirder — before it gets better. Thus far, the city has claimed that records that do exist don't and that members of the public who submit very narrow, specific requests are actually being hopelessly vague.
Bold Predictions for St. Louis in 2023
As dawn breaks on a new year, we all hope that things will be better, or even better if your year didn't suck ass, this time around the sun. But if you're the impatient type, and you don't want to wait to find out what's going to happen, rise or ruin, rest assured that we have a solution for you: this article.
Bold Prediction: Bored Legal Weed Activists Will Find a New Cause
Now victorious in their decades-long quest to legalize marijuana, free-the-herb activists will learn that what they've sown isn't bearing what they'd hoped to reap as the legal weed market becomes a playground for investment bankers and venture capitalists rather than drug-rug-sporting hippies. Disillusioned, they'll switch allegiances and throw their support behind a different combustible: cigarettes.
Bold Prediction: Mark McCloskey Will Ride Again
In an attempt to rekindle the spark and recapture some of the magic of the summer of 2020, Mark McCloskey will stand in his front yard and open fire on the side of his neighbor's house with an AK-47. Right-wing talking heads will declare him a hero and say that the neighboring home shouldn't have come so close to McCloskey's property; McCloskey will subsequently claim that, actually, all of his neighbors' houses are, in fact, also his property.
Bold Prediction: Kia Boyz Supplanted by Female Rivals, HyunDamez
St. Louis is more than fed up with the Kia Boyz running amok, taking our cars out for joyriding and to commit other crimes before crashing them into a light pole or the front window of a weed dispensary. [content-2]
Bold Prediction: St. Louis Will Ride the NA Brew Wave
The nonalcoholic beer market is on a tear, with nonalcoholic brew sales having increased by 90 percent in the past decade and growth that looks like it will outpace traditional beer sales in years to come. St. Louis is in a prime position to capitalize on the trend.
Bold Prediction: Battlehawks Last the Entire Year
St. Louis is used to getting football stolen from the city. We had the Rams, the Super Bowl-winning Rams.
Bold Prediction: Antisemitism Will Rise in the US
Antisemitism in America has steadily been on the rise. According to the Anti-Defamation League, more threats of harassment, vandalism and violence against Jewish people were reported in 2021 than any other year on record.
Bold Prediction: Missouri Will Overturn Abortion Ban
Ah, Missouri. Already home to some of the worst maternal mortality rates in the country, the state was also the first in the union to revoke a woman's right to choose when the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in the Dobbs decision.
Bold Prediction: Missouri Makes Record Investment in Education
In November, Missourians found out a really surprising fact about our state: We are really rich. That's right, the state treasury has a surplus of more than $6 billion, thanks to all those COVID-19 government relief funds and revenue growth, reported the Missouri Independent.
Bold Prediction: Albert Pujols Returns for One More Year
Most professional athletes' final years feel like a slog. Some may even call them ugly.
Police identify boy, 16, shot to death in St. Louis County
Jaylen Miles was found dead behind a vacant home in the 10600 block of Spring Garden Drive.
Bold Prediction: Eric Schmitt Will Embarrass Us, Possibly Himself
Our newest senator, former Attorney General Eric Schmitt, is a ticking time bomb. We can already picture now some of the stupid shenanigans that Schmitt will get up to because we've had a taste of it with Senator Josh Hawley.
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