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May 14, 2012
Rush Bust Unveiled in MO State Capitol Amid Lies, Secrecy and Bitterness
Oh, that we were in Jefferson City right now, under the capitol dome, on the House floor where, at this very minute, legislators are proudly unveiling the latest statue to grace the Hall of Famous Missourians: the long-awaited (by somebody, probably) bust of Rush Limbaugh. But wait! It looks as tho ... More >>
Blogs
January 9, 2012
Tidbits from Neruda, Desserts on the Boulevard
- Joe Bonwich of the Post-Dispatch reports that east-side mainstay Neruda (4 Club Centre Court, Edwardsville, Illinois; 618-659-9866) will close after service on Valentine's Day. Owner Madt Mallinckrodt is retiring from the restaurant business, according to a note on the restaurant's website.- Gu ... More >>
Blogs
December 6, 2011
Post-Dispatch Subject of New Lawsuit
Retirees of the cash-strapped Post-Dispatch say they were misled about health benefitsA dozen former employees of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch are suing the local daily for fraudulent inducement and negligent misrepresentation, claiming that the paper's top brass pulled out of a 2007 agreement ... More >>
Blogs
November 11, 2011
Another Reason To Remember 11/11/11
courtesy St. Louis Post-DispatchNovember 11, 1911, as depicted by a Post-Dispatch cartoonist.Yes, friends, it is that mystical day, the eleventh day of the eleventh month of the eleventh year of the century. (Technically, only the tenth, but whatever.) Several among you took to the Twitters t ... More >>
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October 31, 2011
Tidbits from DeMun Oyster Bar, Perennial Artisan Ales, Orange Leaf Frozen Yogurt
Jennifer SilverbergDeMun Oyster Bar in Clayton- DeMun Oyster Bar (740 DeMun Avenue, Clayton; 314-725-0322) has announced a change in hours. Beginning today, Monday, October 31, the seafood-centric restaurant will be open from 4 p.m. daily. Lunch will be available on Saturday only, beginning at 11 ... More >>
Blogs
October 27, 2011
E. Coli Outbreak in St. Louis County
Image viaE. coli, magnifiedThe St. Louis County Department of Health has reported an E. coli outbreak, with 14 cases of the disease reported this week. According to the department's official release, the source of the outbreak has not been identified.The Post-Dispatch spoke with the father of one ... More >>
Blogs
September 6, 2011
Royal Kabob Restaurant Opens in South City
Ian FroebRoyal Kabob Restaurant is now open at 3611 Bates Avenue (the former location of El Burrito Loco). As Gut Check learned last month, Royal Kabob shares an owner with the small grocery store across the street at 3608 Bates, Ariana Market.According to a sign on the front door, the restaurant ... More >>
Blogs
June 14, 2011
Poll: Are Missouri's Uneducated Lawmakers Good or Bad for State Government?
Are you smarter than a Missouri legislator?Yesterday the Chronicle of Higher Education came out with a report comparing the education levels of state lawmakers around the nation. To my knowledge, just two St. Louis news outlets reported on the study: Riverfront Times and the Post-Dispatch. But lo ... More >>
Blogs
October 25, 2010
St. Louis Post-Dispatch Sunday Circulation Plummets
The latest circulation numbers aren't miraculous at all.Across the country, the rate of decline at America's largest newspapers has begun to slow. For the last six months, they averaged a drop of 4.99 percent Monday through Friday, and 4.46 percent on Sunday, according to a report just out today ... More >>
Blogs
October 1, 2010
St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Now a Six-Day-a-Week Paper on Newsstands
Saturday fades awayIf you're looking to pick up tomorrow's Saturday edition of the Post-Dispatch at area stores and newsstands, fuhgeddaboutit. The paper announced this week that, effective tomorrow, the Saturday paper will no longer be for sale at retailers on a single-copy basis. Instead, the P ... More >>
Blogs
August 17, 2010
Old Habits Die Hard: Local Online Paper Confuses Its Name
Someone alert the attorneys at the Post-Dispatch! I smells a lawsuit. From this morning's St. Louis Beacon...As regular RFT readers may recall, the Beacon -- comprised almost entirely of former Post-Dispatch employees -- originally planned on calling itself the St. Louis Platform. Then, a f ... More >>
Blogs
August 9, 2010
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 >>
Blogs
July 1, 2010
City Tries to Balance Budget by Cutting Jobs
In an attempt to alleviate a $46 million shortfall in the city's budget, the Civil Service Commission yesterday decided to cut employee benefits, increase furlough days and, most drastically, lay off workers, including two dozen firefighters. Firefighters, needless to say, is not pleased with this ... More >>
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April 29, 2010
Laser Pointer Shot at Helicopter Leads to Arrest, Questions
Laser pointers: Not just for freaking out your cats.The Post-Dispatch has an interesting article today about a 21-year-old man arrested Tuesday night for shooting a laser pointer at a St. Louis County Police helicopter. According to the paper, the man was sitting in a parked vehicle around 9:30 p ... More >>
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March 26, 2010
Carolyn Tuft Leaving Post-Dispatch; Investigative Reporter Had Successful, Rocky Run
Photo: Jennifer SilverbergTuft outside the Post-Dispatch in 2006.Veteran reporter Carolyn Tuft is stepping down from the Post-Dispatch.Daily RFT first got wind of Tuft's departure earlier this week. We've been unable to get in touch with Tuft, but today Post-Dispatch editor Arnie Robbins responde ... More >>
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February 16, 2010
St. Louis Post-Dispatch Employees May Pony Up $500,000 To Sully Lee Enterprises
Wikimedia CommonsNegotiations between the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's corporate parent and the local union that represents the paper's staff have so deteriorated that union officials have agreed to free up $500,000 in union assets for tarring and feathering. The St. Louis Newspaper Guild is n ... More >>
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December 11, 2009
Newspaper Retirees Planning to Protest Post-Dispatch
Post-Dispatch retirees say it's only appropriate that they received news December 7 -- Pearl Harbor Day -- that their former employer planned to stop reimbursing their medical coverage. "A great day for a sneak attack," says one member of the St. Louis Newspaper Guild, who tells Daily RFT that ph ... More >>
Blogs
December 9, 2009
StlToday.com Peddles Pussy with "Swimsuit Gallery"; Just Don't Call it That!
It's easy to accuse the editors of the Post-Dispatch's website of being a bit prudish, especially after last month's episode when stltoday.com editor Kurt Greenbaum cost a reader his job for posting the word "pussy" to the paper's website.But to think of the stltoday's editors as overtly puritan wou ... More >>
Blogs
December 2, 2009
The Big Bloody: Newspaper Delivery Man Shot/Robbed in Dogtown; Another Two Shootings Last Night Produce One Homicide
'Twas a busy night and early morning of murder and mayhem in St. Louis over the past 14 hours. The most recent incident occurred around 5 a.m. this morning when a Post-Dispatch delivery man parked his van in the 1300 block of Kraft in Dogtown. View Larger MapAs the delivery driver was loading p ... More >>
Blogs
November 13, 2009
St. Louis Zoo Replaces Dead Polar Bears with Electronic Proxies
Okay, so the story in today's business section of the Post-Dispatch is mostly about how a company that sells holiday decorations is opening an office in downtown St. Louis. (Yes, exciting!)But the real news is the photo (below) that accompanied the story.Post-Dispatch, Section B1, 11/13/2009If yo ... More >>
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September 10, 2009
Burglars Beware: That Home You're Casing Could Be a "Bait House"
The Post-Dispatch is out with an interesting article about how St. Louis County Police plan to use "bait houses" to catch burglars. The idea was borne from the popularity and success of bait cars -- vehicles rigged to kill the engine and lock the doors and windows when stolen by car thieves. The ... More >>
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August 21, 2009
Thoughts on St. Louis School's Soft Opening
Reading this morning's Post-Dispatch article on the St. Louis Public School District, I was left with two thoughts concerning yesterday's first day of classes. The first impression was that once again attendance on opening day was pathetic. As the daily notes, 20 percent of the 25,000 students en ... More >>
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August 21, 2009
Yet Another Round of Layoffs at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch newsroom last night lost another four people: three news researchers (who compile material for reporters) and a photo assistant.Executive editor Arnie Robbins announced the cuts in a memo to staff this morning, saying, "We left a handful of positions unfilled over the cou ... More >>
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August 13, 2009
Go Ahead, Pee In the Shower: It's Not Bad for You (and It's Good for the Earth!)
Yes it's true. Peeing in the shower is NOT unhygienic, according to this piece in the Post-Dispatch. Plus, it would apparently conserve hundreds of gallons of year per household. Why, there's a little TV spot running right now in Brazil that advocates shower-peeing for everyone - aliens and basketba ... More >>
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July 30, 2009
Post-Dispatch Recognizes "Local Alternative Newspaper" by Name
The copy editors at the Post-Dispatch must have been sleeping Tuesday night. How else to explain the words "Riverfront Times" sneaking into Wednesday morning's paper?But there it was on page B4 of an article (excerpted below) on Valley Park and a feud between its ex- and current mayor. As ... More >>
Blogs
July 22, 2009
Majority of Stltoday.com Readers Vote To Drop Comments From Website
zazzle.com/blog tshirtsLast week editors at the Post-Dispatch asked readers to take a poll weighing in on the voluminous number of comments often appended to articles on its stltoday.com website. The poll, which followed an incident in which a commenter allegedly made a vulgar remark on the site (wh ... More >>
Blogs
July 15, 2009
Post-Dispatch to MLB: Can We Have the All-Star Game in St. Louis Every Year? Please!!
An All-Star Game cover of the Post-Dispatch now for sale on stltoday.com for $19.95.The All-Star Game was very kind to the hometown daily. The media-focused magazine Editor & Publisher yesterday reported that the Post-Dispatch increased its press run by 20,000 copies today and yesterday based on ... More >>
Blogs
May 11, 2009
More Furloughs & Pay Cuts at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Late last week Lee Enterprises informed all the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's non-union editors and managers that they are required to take a *second* week-long furlough in 2009. According to the memo circulated, the furlough days must be taken between June and September 27. This time, pay will be reduc ... More >>
Blogs
April 15, 2009
Suburban Journals Laying Off Today?
An anonymous tipster tells me (briefly) that Lee Enterprises'/St. Louis Post-Dispatch's Suburban Journals is laying off its "creative department" today. (By my tally, the last pink-slipping, of 45 employees, occurred last fall.) Supposedly the creative jobs are being "outsourced." Not sure how many ... More >>
Blogs
April 15, 2009
And the Most Asinine Comment on the Post-Dispatch's Pi Article Is...
By a landslide, the winner is "mednek," whose comment on the Post-Dispatch article about Pi cooking pizza at the White House managed the trifecta of being racist, inaccurate and off-topic. The nature of the winning comment seems especially appropriate given the national attention that Post-Dispatch ... More >>
Blogs
April 14, 2009
Who Will Be the Post-Dispatch's Next Minority Columnist? Handicapping the Possible Picks
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch and columnist Sylvester Brown have parted ways. We've already reported on all the messy details per Sly Brown and his editors. But what we're really interested in today is the horse race to replace Brown as the paper's next minority columnist. After all, Brown was hired t ... More >>
Blogs
April 6, 2009
Inside the Post-Dispatch: The View From AJR
American Journalism Review just published a piece about newspaper accuracy where layoffs-meet-the-Internet, and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch is the main character in the 3,530-word article.Only hard-core media wonks will appreciate all three-thousand of those words, so I've taken the liberty of posti ... More >>
Blogs
March 19, 2009
Post-Dispatch Plans To Pump Up The Pep!
This just in!The Post-Dispatch is launching a marketing blitz today entitled, "Turn Up The Moxie!"Can you feel the excitement already?!An e-mail from publisher Kevin Mowbray sent yesterday afternoon to all of the paper's employees explains the facts behind the campaign! Read it after the jump!
Blogs
January 27, 2009
FoodWire: Schnucks to Begin Work on Downtown Store
The Post-Dispatch had an article today noting that Schnucks will begin construction of its much anticipated downtown location at 315 North Ninth Street. A few key notes from the story: The planning process -- not the tough economy -- delayed construction of the downtown location, said Lori Willis, a ... More >>
Blogs
November 18, 2008
St. Louis Post-Dispatch Gets Political With Its Online Advertising
On the eve of Election Day two weeks ago, some online readers of the Post-Dispatch opened their inboxes to find an intriguing note from the local daily: an e-mail touting Proposition A, the controversial gambling ballot initiative that aimed to do away with the $500 loss limits enforced at the state ... More >>
Blogs
October 10, 2008
Why Oh Why Don't They Call it "The Lee EnterPrizes"?
On the eve of Election Day two weeks ago, some online readers of the Post-Dispatch opened their inboxes to find an intriguing note from the local daily: an e-mail touting Proposition A, the controversial gambling ballot initiative that aimed to do away with the $500 loss limits enforced at the state ... More >>
Blogs
September 24, 2008
Who's Watching the Post-Dispatch?
On the eve of Election Day two weeks ago, some online readers of the Post-Dispatch opened their inboxes to find an intriguing note from the local daily: an e-mail touting Proposition A, the controversial gambling ballot initiative that aimed to do away with the $500 loss limits enforced at the state ... More >>
News
September 10, 2008
The Post-Dispatch is shedding news pages and slashing editorial staff – and there's no end in sight
On the eve of Election Day two weeks ago, some online readers of the Post-Dispatch opened their inboxes to find an intriguing note from the local daily: an e-mail touting Proposition A, the controversial gambling ballot initiative that aimed to do away with the $500 loss limits enforced at the state ... More >>
News
April 9, 2008
All In A Name
Did the Post-Dispatch deliberately give its new blog the same title as the competition?
Blogs
September 6, 2007
The Morning Brew: Thursday, 9/6
Did the Post-Dispatch deliberately give its new blog the same title as the competition?
Blogs
November 14, 2006
Sexless in St. Louis
Did the Post-Dispatch deliberately give its new blog the same title as the competition?
News
August 16, 2006
Newsless in St. Louis
Survey: Post-Dispatch finishes dead last in urban coverage.
News
September 7, 2005
Redesign and Conquer
Unreal spills the beans
News
February 2, 2005
Burnt Offering
Did the Post-Dispatch try to buy itself?
Best of St. Louis
September 24, 2003
Best Rehab
The old Post-Dispatch building
News
June 28, 2000
Two Steps Forward, One Step Back
Despite glowing coverage of local gay events in the Post-Dispatch, bigotry is alive and well
Dining
November 24, 1999
A FEW "CHOICE" WORDS
What makes a restaurant the "best," according to the Post-Dispatch advertising department
News
December 23, 1998
News Real
What makes a restaurant the "best," according to the Post-Dispatch advertising department
News
December 9, 1998
Sleeping with the Enemy
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch is finding common cause with some local television newscasts.
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