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April 10, 2012
St. Clair County Sheriff's Department Raids 13 Shops for Synthetic Drugs
The St. Clair County Sheriff's Department joined forces with the Belleville Police, US Marshals, Cahokia Police, Mascoutah Police and the Fairview Heights Police to simultaneously execute search warrants at thirteen businesses in the county suspected of selling synthetic drugs. The 10 a.m. raid was ... More >>
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May 17, 2011
Claire McCaskill Asks FTC Chair to Watch for Gas Gouging
Claire McCaskill: Not too pumped about gas prices.With Memorial Day around the corner and gas prices flirting with the $4-a-gallon mark, Sen. Claire McCaskill and three colleagues yesterday sent a letter to Federal Trade Commission Chairman Jon Leibowitz, calling on him to investigate potenti ... More >>
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May 16, 2011
Report: Wall Street Speculators Drive Up Oil Prices
The view from Wall Street these days.Tired of paying nearly $4 per gallon to fuel up your car? Wondering who's making a fat profit off your daily commute? A new investigative report puts the blame on Wall Street, specifically hedge funds and investment banks that today are involved in the lion's ... More >>
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April 26, 2011
Peabody Opera House Gets Social
Tom Paule Photography via www.peabodyoperahouse.comThe ticket lobby at the Peabody last month -- still a long way to go before opening day.It's not quite like Grandma trying to figure out Twitter -- but it's close.Like many a grand dame who's found herself thrust into our increasingly wired age, ... More >>
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April 6, 2011
Cardinals: A Humble Suggestion for This Season's "Mobil on the Run" Song
The good folks at Mobil on the Run have given us some notable pieces of advertisement over the past couple years, but I have yet to see a new commercial from them this baseball season, regarding the number six or any other numbers, serious or otherwise. To which I say: bunk! We need cheap drink ... More >>
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February 17, 2011
Real-Deal Diner: The Dee-Lux in Roxana, Illinois
Suzy RustThick brick walls insulate the Dee-Lux Dine from churning fumes of burning funk.Heading north on Illinois Route 111 into Roxana, the road tops a floodwall and from the crest of its rise loom the twisting stacks of the Conoco Phillips refinery, gray and smoking, like our emphysematous ... More >>
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January 5, 2011
Homophobe Physicist's Solution to Gulf Oil Spill Was Right in Your Kitchen Cabinet
image viaThe solution to the BP oil spill?Last spring, you may recall, Washington University physicist Jonathan Katz got kicked off a panel assembled by Secretary of Energy Steven Chu that was supposed to figure out how to stop the BP oil spill. Katz's banishment had less to do with his scien ... More >>
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December 30, 2010
The 2010 RFT News Challenge
image viaThe solution to the BP oil spill?Last spring, you may recall, Washington University physicist Jonathan Katz got kicked off a panel assembled by Secretary of Energy Steven Chu that was supposed to figure out how to stop the BP oil spill. Katz's banishment had less to do with his scien ... More >>
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November 10, 2010
Protesters Planning Mock Awards Ceremony at Peabody Energy Headquarters in St. Louis Today
Image viaProtesting Peabody Energy: Not a coal black tie affair.You know how The Razzies are the anti-Oscars? They're the "awards" that "salute the worst that Hollywood has to offer" each year? Well, that's kind of what a group of climate change protesters have planned this afternoon in downtown ... More >>
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October 11, 2010
Son of Avowed Wash. U. Homophobe Comes Out in Post-Dispatch
image viaIsaac KatzBack in 2003, Washington University physics professor Jonathan Katz published an essay on his departmental web page called "In Defense of Homophobia". In a stroke of what some might call poetic justice, Katz's 22-year-old son Isaac came out publicly yesterday in an essay th ... More >>
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October 4, 2010
Students Protest Speech by Peabody Energy CEO Greg Boyce at Wash U Research Symposium
Photo by Keegan HamiltonWash U students had a message for Peabody Energy's Greg Boyce at the Symposium for Global Energy FutureGreg Boyce, CEO of Peabody Energy, the world's largest privately held coal company, stepped to a podium Saturday afternoon at Washington University's Symposium on Global ... More >>
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October 1, 2010
Artgasm: This Weekend's Art Openings, October 1-3, 2010
When Katherine Bish saw a news photo of an oil-slicked pelican after the BP spill in the Gulf of Mexico, she did something about it. She doused people in chocolate syrup, to be exact. Bish's black-and-white photographs attempt to capture the tragedy and imagine how humans in that scenario would look ... More >>
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October 1, 2010
Wash U. Students Want University to Come Clean on Coal Research
Image viaBy contrast, coal accounts for more than 80 percent of Missouri's energy. For many environmentalists, the phrase "clean coal" is a contradiction in terms on par with military intelligence and jumbo shrimp. But to the Department of Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering at Washi ... More >>
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September 15, 2010
Organization Sues to Get Bluefin Tuna Endangered Species Protection
The Center for Biological Diversity is suing the National Marine Fisheries Service for failing to protect Atlantic bluefin tuna after the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. In a press release the agency states that the species has been threatened by overfishing, with the oil spill endangering br ... More >>
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August 31, 2010
Missouri Official Proves It's Possible to Advance Career No Matter Your Job Performance
Leaving Missouri's E. coli waters, for the Gulf's oil-tarred.A man suspended from his job for two weeks without pay last year, today has himself a new, high-profile job overseeing a $20-billion trust fund for those impacted by the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Mark Templeton, head of the Missouri Dep ... More >>
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August 13, 2010
Giant Vehicle Lumbers Across Indiana at 0.10 MPH
Photos courtesy Peabody EnergyThe dragline crosses a highway on its slow march to the Bear Run Mine. Here's an interesting tale for all you gearheads. For the past two weeks in southwestern Indiana, one of the world's largest mobile vehicles has been lumbering across farmlands and rural hig ... More >>
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August 2, 2010
BP Honcho Says He'd Gladly Eat Gulf Coast Seafood
BP's COO says he'd eat seafood from the Gulf of Mexico. The AFP reports that Doug Suttles issued his statement of faith in Gulf seafood two days after Louisiana reopened 2,400 square miles of coastal water for fishing. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Louisiana have been testi ... More >>
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July 16, 2010
Capped!
Last month ... and today.After 85 days -- and 184 million gallons of oil spewed into the gulf -- BP says it's finally capped the Deepwater Horizon oil well. Hallelujah.
Blogs
July 6, 2010
Is Anybody Really "Tarballing" BP Gas Stations?
Image viaGone tarballin'!!!!When Unreal heard a rumor that St. Louis BP gas stations had seen an uptick of people pooping on their restroom floors -- apparently in protest for the worst environmental disaster in American history -- we called up quite a few of 'em. Most said there was no increase ... More >>
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July 2, 2010
Washington Park's Mobil Gas Station of Death
Those gas prices are killer!Running on empty in southern Illinois? You might want to avoid filling up at the Mobil station on Kingshighway in Washington Park.After yet another homicide in the gritty East St. Louis suburb, the village's police chief told the Belleville News-Democrat that police "a ... More >>
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June 30, 2010
Henry Rollins
8 p.m. Thursday, July 1. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Boulevard.
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June 23, 2010
Local Protesters of Big Oil to Put Hands Across the Sand, Er, Mud and Silt
Hands Across the SandOn Saturday, dozens of St. Louisans will gather on the riverfront beneath the Arch to hold hands in a silent protest against offshore oil drilling. Local event organizer Stacey Critzer anticipates 50, maybe even 100 participants. It's not exactly Hands Across America, but the ... More >>
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June 9, 2010
Anti-BP Protest Planned for 10 a.m. Today at Delmar BP
Where it goes down today.Activists who favor stricter clean-energy legislation, and oppose the controversial Murkowski resolution, are holding a rally at 10 a.m. today at BP gas station on Delmar.The rally is being organized by Repower America and its Missouri chapter, plus like-minded groups suc ... More >>
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June 9, 2010
The Morning Brew: 6.9
How to spot oil-tainted seafood? The nose knows. Slashfood reports that, in an effort to find a cost-effective way to keep products ruined by the BP oil disaster from reaching customers, the FDA and NOAA are busy training seafood inspectors on how to detect oil by smelling the fish. The Atlantic v ... More >>
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June 9, 2010
Mall Employee Gets Kinda Naked to Protest Oil Extraction in Canada
Lush employee Rachael Wall protests mining the Canadian Tar Sands. Click to view larger version.Editor's note: Daily RFT sent able-bodied intern Steve Hardy to the Galleria today to report on one of the most earnest protests ever held on a Wednesday afternoon in a mostly vacant shopping mall. Bel ... More >>
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June 7, 2010
Lush Cosmetics Employees Stripping to Stop Canadian Oil Production
Artist's butcheringLeft, soaps sold by Lush Cosmetics. Right, the Canadian tar sands. Only if a good scrubbing by one would clean the other.While the Deep Horizon oil well in the Gulf of Mexico continues to cough up oil underwater, a chain of organic soap shops is planning a separate protest this ... More >>
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May 19, 2010
Controversial Wash U Prof Jonathan Katz Cut Loose From Gulf Oil Spill Relief
Jonathan Katz Well that didn't take long.Yesterday Daily RFT covered the White House's controversial appointment of Jonathan Katz, a physics professor at Washington University in St. Louis, to a team of five scientists asked to help the Department of Energy and BP stem the flow of oil gushing int ... More >>
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May 19, 2010
White-Sand Beaches of Destin, Florida Are NOT Covered In Oil, But Cancellations Have Begun
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kaplanbr/ / CC BY-SA 2.0Calm down, St. Louisans - no oily sheen yet.St. Louisans love love love Destin, Florida. Nary an oil glob has washed ashore, but officials down there just told KTVI that the gigantic BP spill in the Gulf of Mexico has spooked would-be visitors: ... More >>
Blogs
May 18, 2010
Jonathan Katz: Wash U Prof Tapped By Obama to Solve Gulf Oil Crisis is "Homophobe, Climate Change Denialist"
Image sourceJonathan Katz describes himself as "a homophobe and proud"Washington University physics professor Jonathan Katz is part of a five-man team of the nation's "best scientific minds" assembled by the Obama administration to help BP stem the flow of oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico. He' ... More >>
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May 17, 2010
Before Filling Up at BP/Amoco, Check This Out
60 Minutes last night ran a two-part story on the disaster of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico. In interviews with a survivor of the explosion and with engineering experts, the early evidence suggests that that blame lies squarely with BP for ignoring warnings about the well an ... More >>
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May 14, 2010
Deepwater Horizon Oil Disaster Spills Over to St. Louis Seafood Scene
Image viaThe Gulf of Mexico oil spill as seen from the International Space StationNearly a month after the explosion that sunk the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig, killing several workers, oil continues to gush into the Gulf of Mexico. While the federal government and BP struggle to contain the en ... More >>
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April 27, 2010
Great Coal Debate at Wash U. Tonight: Peabody Energy v. Sierra Club
Didya know that 83.5 percent of Missouri's energy comes from coal, and that St. Louis is headquarters to the two largest coal companies in the country in Peabody Energy and Arch Coal? Add it all up and it makes St. Louis a great place to discuss the role of coal in our lives and its impact on the ... More >>
Blogs
April 12, 2010
Country Version of "Six is a Serious Number" is Seriously Awful
Remember how last year you heard that 'Six is a Serious Number' advertisement on the radio, or saw it on the television, and immediately found it annoying? You thought to yourself, "This is just terrible. Who in the hell thought this was a good idea?" But then, something odd happened. T ... More >>
Blogs
March 23, 2010
Group Plans Corporate and Government Protests in St. Louis This Week
Will this Internet-famous St. Louis protester be there?I'm not sure if the People's Settlement would fall under the category of an extremist militia as defined by the Southern Poverty Law Center. But this I know, the People's Settlement are not Tea Party activists. No, far from it. So who/what is ... More >>
Blogs
November 9, 2009
The Big Bloody: In East St. Louis, Three Women Shot at Gas Station, Children in Vehicle
Police have arrested a man suspected of executing a triple-slaying on Saturday night at an East St. Louis Mobil station, reports KMOX.
Blogs
November 4, 2009
Wash U. Students Steamed About "Dirty Energy" Flash Executives
Wikimedia CommonsWash U. kids show big balls in protesting reception attended by energy executives, including some from the coal (above) industry.Actually, it was a flash mob. Some 100 students clad in yellow T-shirts and arm-bands paraded into the "America Energy First Conference" cocktail recep ... More >>
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August 20, 2008
Think Globally Here Locally
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Think Globally Here Locally
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July 9, 2008
On the Road Again
It’s a wheel good time
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June 4, 2008
Joanie Loves Bocce
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August 22, 2007
Get into Labor
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June 20, 2007
The Road to Ravioli
The latest stop on Ian’s Illinois vacation hits close to home.

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