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April 4th General Election Ballot
The St. Louis general election is just around the corner, Tuesday April 4, 2023. Early (no excuse absentee) voting is open now. I’ve voted absentee by mail. Vintage photo of the former offices of the...
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BREAKING! New MLS Stadium Sponsor to be Announced Monday
Last year ST LOUIS CITY SC, the latest MLS expansion team, announced a stadium naming partner only to announce later that deal fell through. The downtown-based home of St. Louis CITY SC is now known...
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April 2023 Election Results Sets New 14-Member Board of Aldermen
St. Louis voters have selected their candidates for our new 14 wards, cut in half from the 28 wards for more than a century. St. Louis City Hall Of the 28 the following aldermen didn’t run this year:...
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St. Louis Roots: Andy Cohen
This Friday, May 5th 2023, St. Louis native Andy Cohen will get a star on the St. Louis Walk of Fame: The late-night TV talk show host and executive producer will be inducted into the St. Louis Walk...
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Racially Restrictive Covenants Ruled Unenforceable 75 Years Ago Today
At the beginning of the 20th century racism was thriving, though it took different forms in different places. The south had harsh ”Jim Crow” laws, lynchings, etc. Cities like St. Louis were less...
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Time To Rethink Aloe Plaza
Eighty-three years ago today a new urban plaza was opened across Market Street from Union Station. The decennial census taken the previous month would later show the city’s population had declined...
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New Siteman Cancer Center, Update on my Cancer
This post is about two indirectly related topics: the new Siteman Cancer Center building under construction on the Washington University School of Medicine/BJC campus and an update on my stage 4...
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Four Recent Books From Island Press
Book publisher Island Press always impresses me with thoughtful new books written by people working to solve current problems — the subjects are important ones for urbanists and policy makers to be...
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Thoughts on NGA West’s Upcoming $10 Million Dollar Landscaping Project
The new NGA West campus , Jefferson & Cass, has been under construction for a few years now. Next NGA West is a large-scale construction project that will build a new facility for the National...
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Celebrating Blog’s 19th Anniversary
Nineteen year ago I started this blog as a distraction from my father’s heart attack and slow recovery. It was late 2004 and social media & video streaming apps didn’t exist yet — or at least not...
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