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Take that every other United States city list that always has St. Louis at either the bottom or at the top when the list starts with “Worst…”! Someone just got named to the “Distinctive Distination” list! St. Louis was named among the 2010 Dozen Distinctive Destinations by the National Trust for Historic Preservation (NTHP) and could be named a “favorite” if the city garners enough online votes. The NTHP has recognized, since 2000, cities and towns that offer “an authentic visitor experience,” according to the organization. [Read More]

Our fair city’s mayor loves him so social media, and he knows that people love to complain, so the other day he sent out a call on Twitter that went a little something like this: Which street that you regularly cross do you find most difficult? The mayor got tons of answers back, that he posted on his blog. Of course most of the reply tweets are crazy-hard to read because Twitter frowns on full words and sentence structure. [Read More]

We all know from our experiences at the post office or DMV that some people can be pretty damn rude, but this is some cold shit right here: Four or five homeless people have made Interco Park on Tucker near Cole their home for the last few months, but Wednesday night, were told the park was going to be cleaned up and out Thursday. At 10 a.m. Thursday, a city garbage truck backed up to the tents and employees of the parks department started dismantling tents and dumping bags of personal possessions into the gaping maw of the truck. [Read More]

Through 2009 so far, the amount of all violent crimes have gone down 20% in St. Louis County according to this STLToday article. No word yet if there was also 20% less beer purchased as well. Areas patrolled by St. Louis County police are experiencing a dramatic drop in crime compared to a year ago, with all major categories down significantly through the first half of 2009, officials said. County police report that murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, larceny, car theft and arsons all are down compared to the same period of 2008. [Read More]

“Civic Leader” Jim Cloar of the Downtown St. Louis Partnership says that about 600 new people moved to downtown St. Louis over the last year. Hmm, ok. So it seems like thats an easy statement to just throw out there especially when you clearly have a vested interest in downtown sucking less. I mean maybe its true…but its hard to believe a guy coming from his place. Well look, maybe he just said it quietly to a reporter or something…it wasn’t making a big deal out of it. [Read More]