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After the outing in D.C. (I encourage everyone to come out with us), I'm going to drive up to the Northeast, where I've never been. I don't really want to drive the interstate, and time's not really a concern, so I ask you, SJ, what should I see, and how should I get there? Also, if anyone is...

Longtime St. Louis Post-Dispatch baseball reporter dies. He was 77. RIP Commish. Hall of Fame baseball writer Rick ‘The Commish’ Hummel dies at 77

The indentation remains on my ring finger. Eventually, it will fade and disappear, the last physical vestige of my connection to her. On Saturday, my wife of 10 years — 15 years in a relationship — told me she wants a divorce. A combination of disease diagnoses and the pandemic caused me to...

I’ve been thinking about this for some time, and it’s time for me to step away from SJ for a while. I don’t find it as enjoyable as I once did, and a lot of that is because of the politics and covid threads. Too often they leave me angry or sad or depressed. There are constant RIP threads...

Columnist Sam Mellinger is leaving the Kansas City Star to become VP of communications for the Royals. Here's Sam's column: https://www.kansascity.com/sports/spt-columns-blogs/sam-mellinger/article256572056.html And here's Vahe's column...

Former Mizzou coach dead. Former Mizzou football coach Woody Widenhofer dies at 77

This story popped up in my Mizzou alumni email. For those who have partaken of both places, Thompson pretty much nails it. I remember my first time at each joint, and 30-some years later, I still get to go once in a while. Who was I in college?

Famous as part of one of the most lopsided trades in MLB history. Dead at 83. Former Cards pitcher Ernie Broglio — of the Brock-for-Broglio trade — dies at 83

Summer night, a good cigar, a slowly evaporating glass of Scotch. Flyover living has its pleasures.

SANDESTIN, Fla. - The Southeastern Conference today announced a revision to its existing limitations on the availability of alcoholic beverages at athletics events. Under this revised policy, each institution in the Conference now has the autonomy to determine the permissibility of selling...

Football, baseball and softball hit with penalties, including recruiting restrictions for football, in academic fraud case. With the football penalties, that's going to make Barry Odom's job that much harder — and it's hard enough at Mizzou as it is. Always and forever, forking Mizzou. Dave...

I contacted the editor for a university produced magazine, letting him know I'm open to freelance assignments to report on engineering research (which I did at a previous stop). He wrote back asking what my rate per word is for a 2- to 3-source story of about 1,200 words. Because I believe my...

Terry Ganey on what happened to the Columbia Daily Tribune when GateHouse bought the paper. The Tribune’s “Tragedy” | Gateway Journalism Review

Billy Graham, the Elvis of televangelism, dead at 99. I'm no fan of organized religion, or televangelism especially, but you can't deny the reach the man had. Billy Graham, 99, Dies; Pastor Filled Stadiums and Counseled Presidents

For the fans, Wilco is streaming live. Also playing some Uncle Tupelo. I don't listen as often as I once did, but these songs take me back to a place and time and the people I was with: http://wilcoworld.net/

With all the divisiveness on the various threads here -- Trump, Hill, Vegas, etc. -- I thought it would be nice if we could step away from those, if only for a moment, to say what we're thankful for, to realize that, whatever's going on, most of us have it pretty good. Today I'm thankful for...

Is gone. I woke up Friday morning around 2 a.m. with awful stomach pain, and I though maybe I was just stopped up, but that wasn't the case. We had to take a car into the shop Friday morning, so I drove it while the wife followed in the other car. I dropped her at work and oldest daughter at...

The news came yesterday morning. After 2 years and 5 months, my senior communications coordinator job at the small university officially ends March 26. My overall department leader gave me the news while a woman from HR and my boss sat, silent in my boss' office. My face felt hot, and I'm sure...

After almost 115 years of local ownership, including 111 in the same (Waters) family, the Trib is being sold to GateHouse, which probably proves the death knell for the local institution in Columbia, Mo. It has been the first real job for generations of Mizzou grads. Heck, I worked there...

The wife and I are traveling later this month to Oregon for a friend's wedding in Salem, flying in and out of PDX. We'll be in Salem for two nights, Astoria one night and then Portland one night before our morning flight home (direct!). I need suggestions for a place to eat on our last night...