Kase Wickman

Puppy Mill Pushback: Bill to Gut Prop B Advances in Missouri House

Kase WickmanThe legislature could undo the measure that anti-puppy mill groups spent more than $4 million to push to voters.​A bill that would repeal key provisions of the voter-approved Puppy Mill Cruelty Prevention Act, better known as Proposition B, sailed through a committee of the Missouri Ho ... More >>

MO House Hearings on Prop B Repeal Continue Today

Jennifer SilverbergCowboy, pictured here with his owner Floyd Dunlap, spent most of his life in the kind of puppy mill that would be made illegal by Prop B. State lawmakers are now seeking to gut the voter-approved initiative.​At 11 a.m. today, the Missouri House of Representatives will continue i ... More >>

Release the Hounds: Readers rail against Missouri puppy mills and praise our take down of Ginger Bistro

Express Scripts Workers Shout Their Way to Victory

Kase WickmanBensalem, Penn. workers and union supporters outside Express Scripts, Inc. headquarters August 30.​Last summer, dozens of workers from Express Scripts, Inc's Bensalem, Pennsylvania facility bused to the company's St. Louis headquarters to protest the threat of their branch's closure. T ... More >>

St. Louis Smoking Ban Still a Work in Progress Four Weeks to Implementation

Kase Wickman​The clock is ticking, and there's less than a month to go until the city and county-wide smoking bans go into effect. For any sticklers keeping track at home, that's 29 days left for the joint boards of health and hospitals to clarify who, exactly, will be exempt from the ban. Fo ... More >>

Battle of the Pumpkin Cupcakes: Squashing the Competition

image viaCute enough to eat, but not legal to eat. ​Now that your Halloween hangover is but a distant memory, we're going to have to break it to you: Our long, gourd-related national nightmare is not over yet. Thanksgiving looms in the near future, and pumpkin-related desserts will be crowding our ... More >>

Big Bucks: Rex Sinquefield earns 'em, gamers (virtually) shoot 'em and readers respond to 'em

SLIFF brings Icelandic improv, French rom-com, a Civil War spoof and more through November 21

"Puppy Mill"/Prop B Cliffhanger: Election Night Timeline

​When all the votes were (finally!) counted early this morning, the results for Proposition B, the officially-titled "Puppy Mill Cruelty Prevention Act," looked like the above graphic from the Missouri Secretary of State's website. Though victory was eventually grasped, the Yes! on Prop B cam ... More >>

Rarebit Battle Royale: Llywelyn's vs. Dressel's vs. Newstead Tower Public House

​Beer, cheese and potatoes. If these three food items don't take up 60 percent of your "Five Favorite Things in Life" list, then we don't want to know you. (That still leaves two slots for your significant other and your cat, so don't say our selections take up too much room.) Perhaps not coi ... More >>

Express Scripts to Close Infamously Outspoken Bensalem Facility

Kase Wickman​Remember the irate Bensalem, Penn. Express Scripts workers and SEIU members who road-tripped across the country to the company's St. Louis headquarters? Well, it seems that they're out of luck: Express Scripts has announced plans to close one of the Bensalem facilities, laying of ... More >>

Angry Express Scripts, Inc. Workers Take Their Case to DC

Kase WickmanBensalem, Pennsylvania workers and union supporters outside Express Scripts, Inc. headquarters August 30.​Approximately 30 pissed-off Express Scripts, Inc. workers from Bensalem, Penn. are headed to our nation's capital to voice their complaints about their treatment at the hands of th ... More >>

Best of Blowback: Top 10 RFT Reader Responses

This one's for you, dear readers.​ In honor of this year's Best of St. Louis issue, which hits the street today (woohoo!), we at RFT wanted to honor a different kind of "best" -- the best contributions from you, our readers. In the last year, your comments have made us laugh. They've made us cry ... More >>

Fountain on Locust Flush With Best Restroom Victory

Kase WickmanVictory at last!​Now there's even more incentive to visit the little girls' room at the Fountain on Locust (3037 Locust St., 314-535-7800): Before, you were just utilizing one of the top ten restrooms in America. As of this morning, that porcelain (er, black plastic) throne you're ... More >>

SEIU Rallies Outside Express Scripts, Inc.'s St. Louis Headquarters

Kase WickmanProtestors at Monday's rally outside Express Scripts' headquarters near UMSL​ For the last four days, two massive tour buses carrying 50 unionized employees of Express Scripts, Inc.'s Bensalem, Penn. facility have been rolling toward St. Louis. Monday afternoon, they gathered outside t ... More >>

Postcard From the St. Louis Wedding Show

Kase Wickman​The Wedding Show, held at America's Center downtown last Sunday, is like the worst wedding you've ever been guilted into attending by your coworker, distant relative or wild-eyed, frantic-for-a-date single friend.It's crowded and noisy, sweltering and poorly decorated, and populated w ... More >>

Planet's Daily News Kiosk's School of Journalism, In Survey Results

Kase WickmanLast week, we told you about the financial woes of the Central West End's beloved Planet's Daily News Kiosk (which, judging by a quick drive past this morning, appears to be selling papers again, as of today!). ​Since then, we've heard from several customers who say that Tony and ... More >>

The Newspaperless Newsstand: The Planet's Daily News Kiosk Faces Financial Strife

Kase Wickman​Anthony M. Streekfuss, known to most simply as Tony, is a jack of all trades: He acts as an early morning security lookout for businesses in St. Louis' Central West End, gossips with the locals, and spoils passing canines with the dog treats he has on his person at all times. As owner ... More >>

Dreamed of Living in T.S. Eliot's Teenage Home? Missed Your Chance!

Kase WickmanThe Love Song of J. Alfred Well-Pruned Hedges​This is the way the world endsThis is the way the world endsThis is the way the world endsNot with a bang, but with a mortgage paymentSo read the closing lines of poet T.S. Eliot's famed "The Wasteland." Right? Right? Uh...Anyway, if you're ... More >>