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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 […]

Temperature highs are expected get up to 61 degrees Thursday.

Whether you take it down on Dec. 26 or leave it into January, the end result is the same: You have to dispose of it somehow.

In a Christmas Day announcement, Rosati-Kain High School announced it would remain open after reaching a multiyear lease agreement with the Archdiocese of St. Louis. After the archdiocese announced in September it would close Rosati-Kain at the end of the 2022-23 school year as part of its "All Things New" consolidation plan, alumnae and students came together and launched a campaign to save the school. The campaign, called RK Forever, aimed to establish Rosati-Kain as an independent school…

Next week, Dean Plocher, from St. Louis County, will become the top Republican in the Missouri House of Representatives. He’ll be sworn in as the speaker of the House. But already folks are looking beyond it.

Demetrious Johnson, the St. Louis native who played for five seasons in the NFL and in retirement helped thousands through a charitable foundation that bore his name, died Saturday. He was 61. Family members said Johnson died of an aortic dissection, a rare condition in which a tear occurs in the inner layer of the body's main artery, at a St. Louis hospital. "His family and friends are saddened by this loss. His big heart and love for his community will never be forgotten," his daughter, Ashley…