Bob McCarty Writes

Thanks to all — conservatives and liberals alike — who helped this blog set several new traffic records during the month of August. Those records include unique visitors (43,527), total visits (56,695), page views (170,850) and almost two-million hits (1,974,521). The average visit duration was 2.5 minutes — or 162 seconds to be exact. Much [...]

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Below are a handful of photos I shot with the camera in my Sanyo Katana DLX cell phone this afternoon at a public park a few miles form my home outside St. Louis.  Click on a photo below to enlarge it.  Enjoy!

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Wachovia Corp. officials announced in a news release today that they would cut dividends and jobs — 6,350 in all — after suffering nearly $9 billion in second-quarter losses tied primarily to the mortgage crisis. The news could result in a second economic body blow in a month hitting the St. Louis region.
Earlier this [...]

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In a news release today, Anheuser-Busch announced it will broadcast its second quarter 2008 earnings conference call over the internet at 12 p.m. Eastern time on Wednesday, July 23. Unfortunately, I expect the conference call to be broadcast only in Flemish, French and Portuguese, the native languages of top executives at InBev. Based [...]

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In a post one month ago, I focused on the impact a foreign company’s takeover of Anheuser-Busch would have on St. Louis residents and charitable organizations. Today, the Teamsters are raising doubts about the future of the largest U.S. brewer following its purchase by Belgium-owned InBev.
I don’t agree with everything about which the Teamsters [...]

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Three members of my family, including me, traveled to and walked around Creve Coeur Lake this evening. Located in West County near St. Louis, the lake is abuzz nightly with walkers, joggers, bikers and boaters. In addition, it affords amateur photographers like me a plethora of subjects to shoot.
Above is a [...]

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