March 2011
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“Unless Alden screws this up, Painter will take the Missouri job.”
– Conversation between an acquaintance of Purdue basketball coach Matt Painter and columnist Bernie Miklasz. Mizzou athletic director Mike Alden is in Florida to try to close a deal with Painter.
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“Rachael Ray does not eat dogs”
– A Photoshopped cover of Tails magazine — missing two important commas — had some questioning if she did.
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“I’ve always stated, ‘I’m a Missouri Tiger.’ I’m...”
– That excitement lasted just 10 days. On Tuesday, the University of Missouri announced that, after just five seasons, basketball coach Mike Anderson had accepted a position at the University of Arkansas. According to media reports, Anderson will earn $2.2 million for seven years in Arkansas. Arkansas...
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“Sell the damn plane.”
– U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill’s instructions to her husband, a weathly developer, along with an admission that she had failed to pay more than $287,000 in personal property taxes on the plane. McCaskill was already facing scrutiny for charging taxpayers for flights on the personal plane. That...
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Munificence
Rounak Bera, 11, won the St. Louis Post-Dispatch Spelling Bee with that word in the seventh round. Munificence means very liberal in giving.
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“In January, with St. Louis County in the third year of a hiring and pay freeze,...”
– During a hiring freeze, a Temporiti lands a county job
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St. Louis Union Station seeking return of 2 stolen... →
St. Louis Union Station opened in 1894 and was once the largest and busiest rail terminal in the world. I hate to see something like this happen, especially to such an important piece of our past. If you know anything about the whereabouts of the missing finials, call St. Louis Union Station at 314-421-6655 or the St. Louis police.
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greetdeath-deactivated20120208 asked: Awesome, I'm away from STL for college and this blog is pretty much what I needed.
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“I’m very proud of what we accomplished here. The Scottrade Center is...”
– Blues chairman Dave Checketts on his decision to sell the team and Scottrade Center.
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Want to vote on tomorrow's birdline? (And see... →
Vote now on what I should say about the new U.S. population center.
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Freedom's Gateway: St. Louis in the Civil War →
New website tracks local Civil War sesquicentennial events.
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St. Louis to lay off 30 firefighters
$46 million • Shortfall in the St. Louis City budget this year, according to Mayor Francis Slay.
$1.4 million • Estimated savings by laying off 30 St. Louis firefighters, according to Slay’s office; another 24 positions will be cut through attrition. Fire Chief Dennis Jenkerson said the layoffs will not affect public safety. “It’s going to put a strain on us,” he said....
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“It’s like a horror movie. Our house is gone and now they are telling us to...”
– Kyoko Nambu, 49, as she stood on a hillside overlooking her ruined hometown of Soma, Japan, about 25 miles from the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant. Japanese authorities were injecting seawater as a coolant of last resort, and advising nearby residents to stay inside to avoid contamination. • The...
In Illinois, the plane facts
16 • Number of helicopters and airplanes in the Illinois state fleet.
$15 billion • Estimated Illinois state budget deficit.
2 • Proposed size of the fleet — one helicopter and one plane — if a Sen. Sue Rezin’s plan to pay down the deficit is approved.
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“How many of us working stiffs get stuff named after us for doing — some...”
– Missouri legislators want to name the next Mississippi River Bridge the “Jerry F. Costello-William Lacy ‘Bill’ Clay Sr. Veterans Memorial Bridge.” • Back-patting tongue twister is no name for a bridge 