The City’s New Revenue Plan: Phantom No Parking Signs

 Posted on March 11, 2011  |  The Editor

Oh those crafty folks running St. Louis! Parking tickets are a good revenue stream for the city, but what happens when people aren’t violating parking rules enough? If only we could make them think it was ok to park there and then say it wasn’t so they’d have to give us money? [ Scene: St. Louis City Budget Meeting] Mayor Slay: We need more money! The damn cops keep asking for more, we can’t cut any more services, we’re hemorrhaging people and we our plan to dig up and move North St. [Read More]
grand  morons  parking  tickets 

St. Charles Hates Tattoo Shops, America, and Kittens (Probably)

 Posted on March 3, 2011  |  The Editor

If you live in St. Charles you should know that your local government thinks your stupid and it hates good ole American capitalism. They may also like stepping on cats tails and punching smiling 5 year-olds in the stomach. The last part we’re not 100% sure of, but the first two things are totally true. Exhibit One: They, once again, denied tattoo shops the right to start up within incorporated St. [Read More]
politics  st charles  tattoo 

Charter Isn’t Doing Any Better

 Posted on March 2, 2011  |  The Editor

Everyone’s favorite former local internet monopoly Charter, posted a loss of $85 Million dollars last quarter, bringing their total loses for 2010 to a whopping $237 Million. All this, just a year after Charter filed for bankruptcy. Things are going just great according to Charter though, you see the secret is playing high school basketball games. There’s you’re big ticket TV right there. Charter is banking on big gains from their commercial business, but it’s pretty damn clear what Charter needs to do to get back in the black: Chalk Talk needs to get back on the air. [Read More]
bankrupt  chalk talk  charter 

Ward 6 Alderwoman Kacie Starr Triplett Seems Pretty Popular With Everyone But Her Constituents

 Posted on February 21, 2011  |  The Editor

The city’s ward 6 Alderwoman is Kacie Starr Triplett, and she’s a star! If you don’t know, now you know! Check out this glittery bio: With a commitment to her community and to her beloved City, Kacie Starr Triplett, has emerged as one of Saint Louis’ youngest and brightest leaders. Elected at the age of 26 to the St. Louis Board of Aldermen, Kacie was sworn in as one the youngest elected leaders in the history of Saint Louis in April of 2007. [Read More]
kacie starr triplett  politics  ward 6 

Missouri House Submits Bill That Forces Surgery to be All Sober and Boring

 Posted on February 17, 2011  |  The Editor

Missouri House member Vicki Schneider of O’Fallon, has submitted a bill that would make it a Class B misdemeanor if a doctor was caught performing surgery, or any other medical procedure, on a patient while under the influence of alcohol or drugs, making officially illegal something that is only the realm of malpractice lawsuits currently. You read that right Missouri! As it stands, if your Doctor can manage to drive his drunk ass to the hospital without getting a ticket, then he’s free and clear to cut you open. [Read More]
doctors  dwi.dui  Health  missouri house 

Rapper Pissed ESPN Used His Song No One’s Heard of on Their National Broadcast

 Posted on February 9, 2011  |  The Editor

First, before we get to the meat of this little ordeal, we want you to know that KSDK brought us this story from Frank Wiley reporting live from downtown St. Louis last night. Why? No clue. None of this had anything to do with downtown St. Louis. Maybe Frank had to smoke or fart or something so he took his work outside. It added nothing to the story of a local rapper suing ESPN, but maybe if you hit your head really really hard or take a day and drink nothing by antifreeze it might make more sense. [Read More]
amazon  dutch jackson  espn  ksdk  music  rap 

The Democrats Like Charlotte, North Carolina Better Than Us

 Posted on February 2, 2011  |  The Editor

It became official yesterday morning, the prize that St. Louis had been chasing, the chance to host the 2012 Democratic National Convention, slipped through the city’s fingers like so many murders and car thieves. The convention, and the people, attention and tax money that come with it, are taking their talents to Charlotte, North Carolina in 2012. The Mayor had this to say in his official statement: The Democratic National Committee has announced that Charlotte will host the party’s national convention in 2012. [Read More]
charlotte  democratic national convention  north carolina  obama 

The United States of Shame Featuring Your Poor Ass

 Posted on January 26, 2011  |  The Editor

Pleated Jeans.com recently put together this map of our United States with each state decorated by one state that it is worst in the nation in. What better day to post this than on the day after our President’s State of the Union address? Oh, I know what you’re thinking, guy with knife lodged in his belly, but Missouri isn’t the nation’s worst place for crime, that’s just St. Louis. The wise map picked bankruptcy as Missouri’s “best” worst ranking. [Read More]
bankruptcy  map  missouri  weird 

Counting Down to Pujols’ New Contract Deadline

 Posted on January 24, 2011  |  The Editor

Less than a month remains until St. Louis baseball legend Albert Pujols’ self-defined deadline for when contract talks between him and the Cardinals need to be done or he will go to free agency. Instead of updating you daily like all the local sports sources have already started to do, we’re just going to put up a little countdown clock. Feel free to just stare at that whenever you’d like. [Read More]
albert pujols  cardinals  contract 

Missouri’s Credit Scores Below National Average

 Posted on January 18, 2011  |  The Editor

In rather unsurprising news today we learned that Missouri’s credit scores are below the national average by ten points. Bruce McClary with Clear Point Credit Counseling Solutions said Missouri residents on average are about ten points below the rest of the country receiving an average score of 658. With lower scores, it will cost more to borrow money. McClary said someone with a credit score of 658 will pay about $140 more per month on a mortgage. [Read More]
credit  credit score