I went to Joe Biden’s speech in St. Louis before the Missouri primary. It was my first political rally in decades. It turned out to be one of the last crowd events before coronavirus locked do…
University City Public Library is scheduled to close in July for much-needed renovations. There are plans to provide patrons access to materials, but I won’t be relaxing in the air-conditioned…
Congress, you’ll recall, left some rather awkward business hanging over the holidays. But now our lawmakers are back in Washington, and the Senate will soon get on with trying President Donald…
Are red-light cameras, absent from St. Louis intersections for almost five years, making a comeback?
“Frozen II” opens Nov. 22. Considering how efficient Disney is at getting the most out of its hits, I’m confident we can expect a sequel as slick as the first. I’m hoping to see a lot of my fa…
Halloween is now Americans’ second-favorite holiday, surpassed in dollars spent only by Christmas. It’s easy to understand why. Halloween is the only major holiday that does not revolve around…
Philanthropy has generally been considered a good thing. The Greek roots of the word mean “love of mankind,” and who could be against that? But lately it has become controversial because of re…
Most Americans aren’t giving much thought to autonomous automobiles, except when a scare story about one of them crashing pops up in the media. But the auto-autos are coming in 5-10 years, and…
It’s high season, and the world’s most famous sights are mobbed by tourists. The news media tell us overcrowding has reached the crisis stage.
It’s summertime and school’s out, but a group of 14-year-old girls absented themselves from felicity awhile to protest next fall’s dress code at their Oregon school.
I’ve just returned from Istanbul. I’ve wanted to go there since I saw “From Russia With Love” in 1964. It was great, and now I can cross another item off my bucket list. That list is getting s…
Bike to Work Day is May 17. The cold winter is over and the hot summer isn’t here yet, so it’s time to leave the old gas-guzzler/carbon-emitter behind and mount up. The first year you commute …
It’s time to start taking Better Together seriously.
An attempt to raise the gasoline tax having been rejected by the voters last November, State Sen. Gary Romine (R-Farmington) has proposed a new way to fund road repairs. His bill would change …
As usual, the Super Bowl commercials are upstaging the game. Interest is so intense that it’s burst the bounds of the game telecast. The most ambitious commercials were released weeks early on…
