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Lately, Charlie's favorite place has been under the bushes in our front yard. He'll curl up there and then, when you open the front door, he'll come careening out and into the house. Maybe someday I'll have the foresight to capture a video of this. In the meantime, here's a photo of Charlie just before ...continue reading "Friday Cat Blogging – 3 February 2023"

Today on TAP: How DeSantis and the College Board enable each other’s corruption

Queen is out with the latest installment of their yearlong YouTube series Queen The Greatest Live. This week's episode focuses on rehearsals for 1986’s The Magic Tour. The 26-date Magic Tour, which hit stadiums…

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Volunteers, local business owners and donors who sponsor the flowers make the effort possible.

The balloon was visible in the St. Louis area from around 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Friday.

This doesn't really make much sense: January came in with slower wage growth than in December. But if we added a gazillion jobs and sent the unemployment rate even lower, why did wage growth slow? In theory, workers have more leverage and should be demanding higher wages. Theory seems to have a real problem at ...continue reading "Against all odds, wage growth slowed in January"

Kansas City area residents reported sightings of a possible spy balloon from China as the object moves across the United States.

A woman is behind bars after threatening harm at a St. Louis church in a text message that indicated she would make the church go "bye bye."

St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department has released photos of the police vehicle involved in last night's shooting in Soulard, during which two officers and one suspect were wounded. The photos released late this morning show an SLMPD SUV with bullet holes in its front and side as well as a smear of blood on its rear passenger-side door. Several windows appear to have been shot out as well.

The scandal that rocked St. Louis last year, bringing down three members of the Board of Aldermen, may have ensnared two more civic leaders. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, using details in a newly released search warrant, says that former U.S. Representative Lacy Clay (D-St. Louis) and Alderman Brandon Bosley also played roles in the bribery scandal that sent former Board of Alderman President Lewis Reed and former aldermen Jeffrey Boyd and John Collins-Muhammad to prison for taking bribes from a local businessman.

The jobs report came out today and it was spectacular: We gained 517,000 jobs in January, which comes to 427,000 jobs after accounting for population growth. The unemployment rate went down to 3.4%, the lowest it's been in my lifetime. Here's the basic chart: Here's a different one: I've noted before that the employment level—a ...continue reading "Chart of the day: Employment in the US"

The Illinois Lottery said a ticket worth $50,000 was purchased from Casey's General Store in Collinsville.

Puppy love is in the air this Valentine's season. Literally.

Yesterday was a doozy. It has left me wondering what, pray tell, is happening in the city of St. Louis — and pleading with our leaders to address traffic violence as the urgent crisis it has become. 

People keep claiming that Mastodon isn’t scaring Elon Musk, but it’s pretty clear that he’s worried about the exodus of people from Twitter. With his bizarrely short-sighted decision to end free access to the Twitter API, driving developers over to Mastodon, some people realized that the various tools that people use to find their Twitter […]

Aspiring filmmakers, YouTubers, bloggers, and business owners alike can find something to love about the Complete Video Production Super Bundle. Video content is fast changing from the future marketing tool to the present, and in these 10 courses you’ll learn how to make professional videos on any budget. From the absolute basics to the advanced shooting […]