It's been in many CBS radio hourly news vriefs.
5 great cities where you can afford to buy a house even on a $50k salary
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/5-gre ... nk=sfmw_tw
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/5-gre ... nk=sfmw_tw
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Well unfortunately it was a top post on r/news this morning.
I've seen the reports and they are credible. I've seen the racist Facebook posts too. Very, very horrible for a sworn officer to do.BellaVilla wrote:Good thing no one consumes CNN anymore
Cops being paid with taxpayer money who do this need to be fired. Not warned, not trained. Fired. They are breaching the public's trust. They are not to be trusted.
Free speech you have, but an employer can also freely fire you because of how you are misrepresenting the employer or city.
If the cop in question (and there are others) represented himself - and only himself privately - and out of the uniform then claim free speech protections. But when you are posting racist, Islamphobic garbage wearing your uniform....you are an embarrassment to the city.
There are codes of conduct.
Hell, there even posting rules for this forum. Bravo to CNN and other entities for bringing this to light.
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ESPN wrote a pretty positive article about our city
https://www.espn.com/nhl/story/_/id/269 ... d-st-louis
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Oh man, I love the Waino/Molina/Fam/Smiles/Blues jersey picture.That is AWESOME! 
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These altruistic "wealthy east coast WASPS and progressive central Europeans" that you speak so highly of were also the first to split to the burbs when things in the city started to, um, change.BellaVilla wrote:
So? That just means fewer uppity liberals and brainy foreigners. A huge win for your typical racist paranoid rural Missouri legislator.
St. Louis has begrudgingly been a member of Missouri for nearly its entire history. A city built by wealthy east coast WASPS and progressive central Europeans in a state predominantly settled by aspiring plantation owners that were down on their luck in NC, VA, and TN.
You forgot to include that part. I guess we can thank them for some of America's finest suburbs because they certainly didn't stick around to preserve their own history.
^ Starting to get a bit off topic here.
The ESPN piece was nice. You don't see too much of that from them anymore lol.
The ESPN piece was nice. You don't see too much of that from them anymore lol.
The article was written by Nick Wagoner who covered the Rams for ESPN while they were here. He may be local. Speaking of local, imagine if Bill McClellan had written it. Ugh. Well done, Nick!
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https://smartasset.com/mortgage/undervalued-cities-2019
Saint Louis comes in at #9 as the westernmost city on the list. Our homes go for about half of what they’re really worth according to smart asset.
As a transplant, these types of articles helped to inform me in the most general of senses that St. Louis was a good city and that it was going to be one of the cheaper places someone on a budget could afford to live but still have a lot of fun.
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Saint Louis comes in at #9 as the westernmost city on the list. Our homes go for about half of what they’re really worth according to smart asset.
As a transplant, these types of articles helped to inform me in the most general of senses that St. Louis was a good city and that it was going to be one of the cheaper places someone on a budget could afford to live but still have a lot of fun.
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The Miniature Museum of Greater St. Louis was featured on Atlas Obscura. I haven't been there in a few years; looks like they've added more stuff since then.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/min ... BxZXyJbClM
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https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/min ... BxZXyJbClM
^ That's pretty wild. I never knew Castlewood used to be a resort town, would love to see one of those canoe carrying train cars haha.
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The US merger boom has hit a key swing state’s biggest city
Senator Cory Booker has said whoever is president needs to keep corporate consolidation in check, so ahead of the second Democratic debate, CNBC’s Leslie Picker takes a look at what the merger boom has meant for the biggest city in Missouri, a key swing state.
https://www.cnbc.com/video/2019/07/30/s ... k-box.html
Senator Cory Booker has said whoever is president needs to keep corporate consolidation in check, so ahead of the second Democratic debate, CNBC’s Leslie Picker takes a look at what the merger boom has meant for the biggest city in Missouri, a key swing state.
https://www.cnbc.com/video/2019/07/30/s ... k-box.html
^ Thanks for that link I hadn't seen that.
I would say CNBC is a little late to the game as this has been happening in St. Louis for decades now. Would have been nice to see them mention that more St. Louis companies are buyers than sellers, instead of the tired old narrative that St. Louis' companies are leaving in droves which isn't entirely true anymore.
I also would very much disagree with Missouri being a "key swing state" lol.
I would say CNBC is a little late to the game as this has been happening in St. Louis for decades now. Would have been nice to see them mention that more St. Louis companies are buyers than sellers, instead of the tired old narrative that St. Louis' companies are leaving in droves which isn't entirely true anymore.
I also would very much disagree with Missouri being a "key swing state" lol.
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Joe Holleman of the Post-Dispatch recently featured a ranking from Wallet Hub about how St. Louis was 169th for best place for families. The piece was ambiguous about whether the ranking was for just the City of St. Louis, or the whole metro area. But at the top it featured a photo of a family from South County visiting a park in Kirkwood. After going through the Wallet Hub methodology, it is clear this ranking was only about "cities", not metro areas. With the photo and no other clarification, I believe Joe intentionally meant to mislead the readers, probably for a few extra iPhone clicks. He posted a tweet promoting the piece and included the same county photo. When a tweet reply called him out for not clarifying that this was the city only, Joe replied to the tweet: "St. Louis is the city. It's the only city in the metropolitan area whose name is "St. Louis."
https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/columns/joe-holleman/st-louis-near-bottom-of-city-list-for-raising-families/article_7aedfaf9-d019-5121-9624-8fc778150060.html
As we've pointed out, it is apples and oranges to promote "city limit" rankings where our core city, with 64 square miles and 1/10 of the metro population and no suburbs, is ranked against say San Antonio, a smaller metro but a core city 7 times bigger in area that includes the majority of its suburbs. Metro area MSA rankings are about the only way to normalize out the driving effects of wildly varying political city boundary characteristics of core cities within respective metros for a fair ranking. MSA boundaries are set by the federal government using consistent population-based rules.
The Post needs to start promoting more truthful metro rankings rather than go for internet clicks to raise it's advertising rates. Otherwise it will be seen as not credible and will lose its longtime loyal subscribers who buy it for the truth. Like me.
Here is a more credible ranking of major metros best places to live. St. Louis ranks 13th out of 21 for largest metros.
https://realestate.usnews.com/places/rankings/best-places-to-live?sort=match&high_to_low=true&population=mega&sort=match&high_to_low=true
https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/columns/joe-holleman/st-louis-near-bottom-of-city-list-for-raising-families/article_7aedfaf9-d019-5121-9624-8fc778150060.html
As we've pointed out, it is apples and oranges to promote "city limit" rankings where our core city, with 64 square miles and 1/10 of the metro population and no suburbs, is ranked against say San Antonio, a smaller metro but a core city 7 times bigger in area that includes the majority of its suburbs. Metro area MSA rankings are about the only way to normalize out the driving effects of wildly varying political city boundary characteristics of core cities within respective metros for a fair ranking. MSA boundaries are set by the federal government using consistent population-based rules.
The Post needs to start promoting more truthful metro rankings rather than go for internet clicks to raise it's advertising rates. Otherwise it will be seen as not credible and will lose its longtime loyal subscribers who buy it for the truth. Like me.
Here is a more credible ranking of major metros best places to live. St. Louis ranks 13th out of 21 for largest metros.
https://realestate.usnews.com/places/rankings/best-places-to-live?sort=match&high_to_low=true&population=mega&sort=match&high_to_low=true
Holleman is obsessed with that stupid Wallet Hub. Drives me nuts. I really wish the Post would drop his insipid little column. Absolutely worthless.
^ Seriously. Hollerman is absolutely worthless, he's your classic suburban city hater. Always has been.
Nearly his entire repertoire of work is useless WalletHub bullsh*t. Sometimes I wonder whether or not WalletHub is paying the PD to promote this crap, I very much doubt it, but still.
Hollerman is one buyout I'd love to see happen at the PD. He brings nothing at all to the table for the paper.
Nearly his entire repertoire of work is useless WalletHub bullsh*t. Sometimes I wonder whether or not WalletHub is paying the PD to promote this crap, I very much doubt it, but still.
Hollerman is one buyout I'd love to see happen at the PD. He brings nothing at all to the table for the paper.
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So at my suggestion, Holleman ran a new story in the post featuring the US New and World Report ranking of best cities based on full metro areas instead of just city limits of the core city. Here is his new piece.
U.S. News ranks STL metro as, well, better than Chicago
https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/columns/joe-holleman/u-s-news-ranks-stl-metro-as-well-better-than/article_d32d0511-660a-5ec1-8fac-1498494b30b1.html
U.S. News ranks STL metro as, well, better than Chicago
- Aug 2, 2019
https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/columns/joe-holleman/u-s-news-ranks-stl-metro-as-well-better-than/article_d32d0511-660a-5ec1-8fac-1498494b30b1.html
WSJ: Five Years After Michael Brown’s Death, Ferguson Still Shows Scars of Riots (paywall warning)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/five-years ... lista_pos1
https://www.wsj.com/articles/five-years ... lista_pos1
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The Billionaires Behind the Secret Tech Mecca in America’s Heartland
https://www.forbes.com/sites/laurendebt ... b2fab54b43
https://www.forbes.com/sites/laurendebt ... b2fab54b43
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^^Awesome article, awesome story! Proof that with hard work, anyone can achieve the American dream.
New York Daily News: Boy fatally (Xavior Usanga) shot one day before starting second grade
St. Louis deserves this headline. It's been a drip, drip, drip now it's a broken water line flooding the streets.
St. Louis deserves this headline. It's been a drip, drip, drip now it's a broken water line flooding the streets.