Should I recommend Michael Moore’s 2016 movie,” Where to Invade Next”? On the plus side, there are some really good jokes. The biggest laugh
Category: Cities
How the federal government may not be serving St. Louis well
One of the challenges that progressives frequently face is that they like to be sticklers for facts, at least wherever possible. And since a
STL landfill fire nears collision with radioactive waste: What’s next?
What happens when a landfill fire meets a radioactive waste dump? St. Louis, Missouri, may be the first metropolitan area to find out. In
Trash/recycling pickup on MLK Day: Ironic & wrong
On Martin Luther King Day this year [2016], I was surprised to see the trash and recycling trucks clanking down my street in suburban
Life will be harder to understand without the Rams
Like many people, I have mixed feelings about the Rams leaving St. Louis for Los Angeles. In some ways, they parallel the mixed feelings
The NFL’s abusive relationship with cities and fans: St. Louis edition
Stan Kroenke’s recent verbal abuse of St. Louis may, at long last, have awakened this town to the sick relationship it has had with
Democracy watch, Nov. 2015: Two steps forward [ME, WA], one huge step back [NJ]
This November, people who care about enhancing democratic principles have a few things to feel good about. But, in the toxic political environment that
NFL stadiums vs. the public welfare
Assigned reading for today: Huffpost article on the pros and cons of publicly subsidizing wealthy NFL team owners’ desire for new stadiums. Along with
St. Louis’ absurd political football scenario, and how to solve it, absurdly
It seems that everyone I know in St. Louis is opposed to a new football stadium that just might keep the Rams in St.
The Ferguson dilemma: When keeping up appearances is not enough
A recent article in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that described the way that the small St. Louis County municipality of Pagedale was condemning inhabited,