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This is another picture from my astronomy session on Sunday night—but it's not a photo of the sky. Since everything was going well, I let the telescope camera run for as long as I could and ended up staying until about 6 am. That made it a very long night, but it also meant that ...continue reading "Lunchtime Photo"

The National Park Service has awarded a $500,000 grant to Tower Grove Park in an effort to refurbish four historic Victorian pavilions.

Here is a routine cri de coeur about the national debt over at National Review: We are doomed: Bottom-line: the party’s over. Current levels of federal borrowing are completely untenable. America’s flirtation with Modern Monetary Theory must come to an end. And we better course correct quickly. Otherwise, we might soon be staring down the ...continue reading "Who’s afraid of the national debt?"

From St. Louis Business Journal:  The city of St. Louis has begun to advance a slate of subsidies that could be granted to the $325 million entertainment, restaurant and retail complex proposed along the Mississippi River in north St. Louis. The 67.5-acre Lighthouse Point project at 11000 Riverview Drive, on the border of St. Louis […]

Eligible families who have not claimed the Child Tax Credit still have more time to use a simple tool to file. Officials say it helps make it easier for families to file for the funds.

From Webster-Kirkwood Times:  Residents of Brookside Drive and Glendale Gardens Drive in Glendale are once again up in arms over plans for several additions to a neighboring car dealership. On Thursday, Sept. 22, the Glendale Plan Commission heard from a team at Glendale Chrysler Jeep Dodge Ram, 10070 Manchester Road. The dealership is requesting a […]

From St. Louis Post-Dispatch:  City officials on Monday told residents concerned about dangerous driving and deadly crashes in and around the South Grand Boulevard business district this summer that help is on the way. Police said they’ve been pulling over more people to enforce traffic laws in the past month. A city planner said his […]

From RiverBender:  The Illinois Department of Transportation today announced that the Federal Highway Administration has approved its plan to build a reliable electric vehicle charging network throughout the state. The State of Illinois Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Deployment Plan addresses potential challenges and proposes locations for charging stations to ensure motorists can confidently traverse the state […]

Today on TAP: In hopes that maybe the deepening recession will change Fed policy. No such luck.

Here's wishing a very happy 75th birthday to longtime AC/DC frontman Brian Johnson, who was born October 5, 1947. The gravel-voiced vocalist, who hails from Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K., served…

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The one singular sensation that exhilarated Broadway for over fifteen years returns to STAGES! Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and 9 Tony Awards,

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From St. Louis Business Journal:  St Louis has always been a great city; it became a gateway to the West in the early 1800s and 1900s when it served as a major port city on the Mississippi for passengers and cargo alike. Over the past few years, St. Louis has rebranded itself as a geospatial, […]

In the early morning hours of September 19, Paul and Wendy Hamilton got a call that would upend not only their lives, but the lives of their staff, regular guests and the St. Louis dining scene as a whole: Their beloved mainstay, Vin De Set had caught fire, catastrophically damaging the restaurant's indoor and outdoor space, special events rooms and the pizzeria, PW Pizza, that was also located in the building. What will come of the tragedy remains unclear — will they rebuild Vin De Set as it was?

Only hours away from the start of postseason, the St. Louis Cardinals complete a series of transactions to help build their roster for the Wild Card round.

From St. Louis Public Radio:  Jefferson County officials have voted not to designate a portion of Missouri Route 21 as part of the Ozark Run Scenic Byway. The Jefferson County Council voted 5-2 last week to object to the plan. The proposal would add to place signs with the byway’s name along a route that […]

From Webster-Kirkwood Times:  St. Louis Community College this week provided a glimpse into the future of its aging Meramec campus in Kirkwood, outlining millions of dollars in reinvestment over the next five years and highlighted by the construction of three new buildings. System wide, St. Louis Community College has budgeted for more than $400 million […]

From St. Louis Post-Dispatch:  You know the cliché: Shopping malls are desolate and deserted places, inhabited only by elderly walkers and a few sad stores desperately clinging to life among the cobwebs and decay. And that is true of some malls. And it is very much not true of others. Malls have been on a […]

Everyone knows that St. Louisans love to ask where you went to high school. Well, now there’s a new list to pair with your high school questions. Founded in 2002, the Pittsburgh-based website, Niche, has served as a leader in school rankings from the elementary to college level.

ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. - An endangered person advisory has been issued for a missing 12-year-old girl. Police said Dani Allen went missing Monday at 7 p.m. from her home in the 14000 block of Old Halls Ferry Road in Florissant. She is described as being 5'8" and 140 pounds, with black hair and brown [...]