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Category: Cities

Landfill fire

STL landfill fire nears collision with radioactive waste: What’s next?

April 18, 2016 Gloria Shur Bilchik Activism, Cities, Energy, Environment, History, Missouri region, Nuclear weapons 4 comments

What happens when a landfill fire meets a radioactive waste dump?  St. Louis, Missouri, may be the first metropolitan area to find out. In

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Trash/recycling pickup on MLK Day: Ironic & wrong

January 22, 2016 Gloria Shur Bilchik Activism, Cities, Civil Rights Leave a comment

On Martin Luther King Day this year [2016], I was surprised to see the trash and recycling trucks clanking down my street in suburban

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Life will be harder to understand without the Rams

January 19, 2016 Arthur Lieber Capitalism, Charity & Justice, Cities, Sports Leave a comment

Like many people, I have mixed feelings about the Rams leaving St. Louis for Los Angeles. In some ways, they parallel the mixed feelings

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The NFL’s abusive relationship with cities and fans: St. Louis edition

January 10, 2016 Gloria Shur Bilchik Cities, Sports Leave a comment

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

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Democracy watch, Nov. 2015: Two steps forward [ME, WA], one huge step back [NJ]

November 11, 2015 Gloria Shur Bilchik Cities, Democracy, Politics, Republicans, States, Voting/Elections Leave a comment

This November, people who care about enhancing democratic principles have a few things to feel good about. But, in the toxic political environment that

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NFL stadiums vs. the public welfare

September 16, 2015 Willy Kessler Cities, Sports, States Leave a comment

Assigned reading for today: Huffpost article on the pros and cons of publicly subsidizing wealthy NFL team owners’ desire for new stadiums. Along with

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St. Louis’ absurd political football scenario, and how to solve it, absurdly

August 16, 2015 Arthur Lieber Cities, Consumer issues, Corporations, Sports One comment

It seems that everyone I know in St. Louis is opposed to a new football stadium that just might keep the Rams in St.

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The Ferguson dilemma: When keeping up appearances is not enough

August 16, 2015 Willy Kessler Cities, Civil Rights, Crime/Violence, Ferguson, Missouri region, Police Leave a comment

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,

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Ferguson bus tour: Beyond the riot-porn

June 17, 2015 Gloria Shur Bilchik Cities, Ferguson, Media, Missouri region Leave a comment

There’s a lot more to Ferguson, Missouri than what we’ve seen in the media. After Michael Brown was killed by a Ferguson cop, and

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President Obama should apologize for using the T-word

May 1, 2015 Arthur Lieber Cities, Civil liberties, Crime/Violence, Language/Words, Obama, Police, Youth issues Leave a comment

President Obama has repeatedly exhibited key characteristics of a strong leader. He is decisive when necessary; reflective when appropriate, and clear in his vision

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