Bob McCarty Writes

Only a year after she was banned from a minor league ballpark, “One-Sheet” Sheryl Crow will be the official musical entertainer at the 2009 Major League Baseball All-Star Charity Concert in downtown St. Louis July 11, according to a report in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch today.
Rumor has it that, as part of her contract, Missouri [...]

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This morning, I came across a clever and creative advertisement (right) for Thies Farm and Greenhouses on the St. Louis Post-Dispatch web site.
I don’t know who created this ad, but it sure does a good job of drawing attention to Thies Farm, a St. Louis-area outfit that sells strawberries, blueberries and raspberries grown on their [...]

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Today, I came across news of a disturbing incident that took place March 29. It involved Steve Bierfeldt, director of development for Ron Paul’s Campaign for Liberty organization, and Transportation Security Administration screeners at Lambert-St. Louis International Airport.
I learned about the incident while visiting the web site of Jan Mickelson, host of “Mickelson in [...]

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Though I wrote about plans for the St. Louis Tea Party and fully intended to be there this morning on the grounds of the world-famous Arch, a broken hand — the result of playing basketball 3-4 nights a week against young men less than half my age — prevented me from doing that today.  In [...]

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Finally, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch has reported on the St. Louis Tea Party which took place at 11 a.m. local today on the steps at the foot of the world-famous Arch.
Unfortunately, reporter Tim O’Neil’s article (Anti-stimulus protesters rally at the Arch) that appeared on the newspaper’s web site provided only 200 hardly-descriptive words, one bullhorn-emitted [...]

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