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A St. Louis area police officer pulled over a BMW for speeding the other day and when inspecting the car they found: $54,200 bones. Eight prepaid cell phones. Several ID cards. Six dozen Western Union reciepts. 17 midgets. The driver claimed to have been working for an organization that had him buy a prepaid phone to get secret text message instructions on how and where to get cash to send out. [Read More]

Which local TV station is had this exchange their employees recently:

Station: You get a free 2 week vacation!

Employees: Woohoo!

Station: We aren’t going to pay you though.

Employees: D’oh.

Starting yesterday, Feb. 9th, signs will start popping up at the bus stops about the lines that are being killed off because the people in charge of Metrolink / Metrobus are morons. Of course if you ask Metro president Bob Baer what can be done to fix it, he will tell you to help get a new transit funding measure on the ballot in St. Louis County in the spring of 2010. [Read More]

If you live in reach of Laclede Gas and you pay their rates you’re going to love this. I mean you’re really going to love this! From BizJournals.com article “Laclede Q1 profit up 50%” [emphasis mine]: Laclede Gas, the company’s core unit, saw its earnings rise 2.5 percent to $16.2 million in the recent quarter. The company attributed the increase to higher income from natural gas sales due to colder weather and higher surcharge revenue, offset by higher operating expenses and investment losses. [Read More]

Thats the question that a lot of local schools are asking and others are asking if its kosher to sell the naming rights of a school building like we do stadiums and hospital buildings. From The Post Dispatch’s recent article on the subject: …school districts still worry that they need to lay out guidelines so they’re not caught unprepared for potentially inappropriate naming requests. Those concerns have, in part, prompted at least seven area school districts to pass or revise policies in the past year that define the limits and specifics of naming rights. [Read More]