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This holiday season, pet-loving St. Louis drunks are once again afforded a unique opportunity to spread joy in the world simply by doing what comes naturally: drinking beer. That's thanks to Raise a Pint for Pets, the annual booze-based charity campaign that aims to help out our furry friends in animal shelters. For the sixth year in a row, Urban Chestnut has teamed up with Purina to merge alcoholism with altruism.

Every hour, Jennifer Crane must hit a quota. As an outbound packer at STL8 Amazon Fulfillment Center in St. Peters, she has to build, pack and label 70 boxes an hour. It amounts to 3,000 packed boxes per week.

Casa Don Alfonso invites St. Louis residents and guests to indulge in a festive holiday season marked by the delicious traditions of Italy’s Sorrento Coast. Working closely with the renowned

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If you could prevent millions of children from falling back into poverty, would you? Most of us, I imagine, would answer “yes” without hesitation. But not Congress. For nearly a year, lawmakers in Washington, D.C., have dithered as the policy directly responsible for a dramatic decline in poverty last year lapsed. It’s time for Congress […]

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This is off the beaten path, isn't it? But I was over at Google's Ngram Viewer trying to remember what I had planned to look up, and while my neurons were betraying me I started entering dirty words. That was interesting, so I got more rigorous about it. Here are the most popular current obscenities, ...continue reading "Raw data: What popular obscenity has grown the most?"

The center-left mindset of favoring quantitative analysis and just-so mathematical solutions is particularly myopic when it comes to fossil fuel pollution.

The White House sent out some talking points to help you deal with your Fox-loving uncle on Thanksgiving Day, and I wish they hadn't. This is one of the most tiresome memes ever. But if you're going to do it anyway, for God's sake please proofread it: Two typos in a single sentence? It should ...continue reading "The White House needs a copy editor"

James Iberg of Highland, IL became a Real Rock Hero in the Real Rock Army today

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We finally know who gets what from the Rams settlement.

There has been a breakthrough criminal charge in the shooting death of a Jefferson County teen. A man has now been charged with trying to cover it up.

The red team made up of mostly firefighters won 9-3. But the families of those supported by the BackStoppers are the real winners here.

The plight of an 80-year-old worker from Affton may lead to new state legislation.

Things looked dry to start the week, but chances of rain are increasing heading into the weekend.

DOORWAYS offers its clients a place to live and a lot of other services, like mental health care, help finding work, a food pantry, and access to a pharmacist, all in one place.

Johnson killed a Kirkwood police officer, William McEntee, in 2005. Johnson was 19 at the time of the crime.

A labor dispute involving the freight rail industry is currently in a holding pattern. A cooling-off period will expire next month.