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St. Louis’ Rich People You’ve Never Heard Of


Posted by The Editor on 12 Mar 2010 /


Forbes Magazine’s yearly billionaire list was released and we wanted to share with you St. Louis connected people on that list.  Just when you start to feel superior, here we come with a list of mega-rich old people that could buy and sell your ass like the whore we all know you are.

#123 Jack Taylor, founder of Enterprise Rent-A-Car. Net worth: $6 billion

#176 Pauline MacMillan Keinath, old money. Net worth: $4.5 billion

#297 Ann Walton Kroenke, Wal-Mart heir. Net worth: $3.2 billion

#342 Stanley Kroenke, Rams minority owner. Net worth: $2.9 billion

#363 Nancy Walton Laurie, another Wal-Mart heir and former Blues owner. Net worth: $2.7 billion

#672 That “homeless” guy you blew off. Net worth: $1.2 billion He was going to say “thank you kind sir” and then rip off his rags to reveal a shining white tuxedo and give you a huge check for being nice…it could have been your very own Brewster’s Millions, but you stepped over him to spend the money on a Frappuccino.

via St. Louis Business Journal


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St. Louis is 10th Most Miserable City


Posted by The Editor on 12 Feb 2009 /


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Great.

Forbes Magazine says via BizJournals.com:

St. Louis has been ranked the 10th-most miserable city in the nation by Forbes magazine.

The “Forbes Misery Measure” looks at the 150 largest metropolitan statistical areas in the U.S., or those areas with a population of at least 378,000. The list was based on nine factors: commute times, corruption, pro sports teams, Superfund sites, taxes (both income and sales), unemployment, violent crime and weather.

The Gateway City scored in the bottom half of all nine categories, the only metro area to do so, Forbes said.

When you look at where they “graded” the cities on, there’s really no surprise where we ended  up.  We aren’t (sadly) a public transportation city, corruption happens, no playoff teams, and you don’t really live here until your car gets jacked.  10th seems a little high actually.  

Seriously though, this is a complete bullshit rating system.  The fact that weather is in there really bends it over.  So people can’t ever be happy in Portland because it rains all the time?  What a crock.  This boys and girls is called link-bait, and yeah, we fell for it.

There is one good thing about this test though: Chicago came in as the third most miserable city!  Ha.  Just think how all the “Chicago Rules” yuppies have their panties in a bunch of this.  St. Louis is used to people shitting on us, Chicago isn’t .  Have fun with that.