Jonathan Daniel, author of SUDS SERIES: Baseball, Beer Wars, and the Summer of '82, recently appeared on the A Lott on Sports podcast to discuss his book. Listen to the interview here: www.youtube.com/watch?si=Dzo...

"They say basic services have eroded. The streets are filled with potholes and illegally dumped trash; crime is a constant concern. And yet the police only seem to show up to pull over and ticket the very trucks that serve their businesses..." #STL

Now it’s HUD and Eisenhower buildings. Though the style isn’t to everyone’s taste, it’s forceful architecture as historically noteworthy as any of the classicals. As important—there’s an effective, established process for handling alterations, etc. #accountability www.archpaper.com/2025/12/hud-...

The Trump administration has proposed demolishing the Cohen building, threatening important New Deal works. "In the event of demolition, removing the Guston would be a cinch; removing the Fogels more difficult; and removing the Shahn extremely difficult and costly, and perhaps impossible." #WPA

🚨BREAKING: More than 300,000 Missourians have signed a petition demanding that the gerrymander be put to a statewide referendum, advocacy organization People Not Politicians announced as it delivered those signatures to the state government Tuesday. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Here is a great list of some of the best books about Black history published in 2025. 🗃️ www.aaihs.org/the-best-bla...

A report found that in April 2025, there were "9,000 vacant buildings in the city, and 15,000 vacant lots, making up 18 percent of city land parcels and taking up 6.6 square miles in the just over 60 square-mile footprint of St. Louis city. Those cost the city $21 million in upkeep fees..." #STL

4theVille "will offer tours about the history of Black wealth in the city, as well as a walking tour that highlights Black St. Louis’ connection to the Gateway Arch mall downtown. Docents will also serve as tour guides for the Missouri History Museum’s latest exhibit about Mill Creek Valley." #STL

The White House surrenders at 138 million views. Sabrina wins.

"...there have now been 1,095 unique scorelines in NFL history. But one never-before-seen #Scorigami stands apart from all the others, on account of its maddening elusiveness: 36–23."

"St. Louisans repairing their homes after the May 16 tornado are having varying levels of success when it comes to dealing with their insurance companies." #STL

#STL #STLCards

The deadline to submit a proposal to the Missouri Conference on History has been extended to December 8.

Yikes.

"This summer, St. Louis #NAACP leaders began hearing community members complain about insurance companies underestimating their home’s damage and not offering enough to help repair roofs or destroyed walls." #STL

Sad to see this mid century building go, but hopeful for the new project. #STL

My book is available now via the University of Missouri Press (and will be available from other sources in December). #STL

The Board of Aldermen will vote tomorrow on whether to give themselves and Mayor Spencer broad authority to sell off almost half of the city’s parks.

“Tearing down monuments erases history!”

em-dash.

“Staff cuts, the closure of regional printing presses and cuts to printed editions characterize Lee Enterprises as it tries to expand its digital subscriber base while keeping existing print customers and advertisers on board.” #STL

“The exhibition was created especially for #SLAM and overseen by Kiefer—the 80-year-old artist did everything from selecting display tables to creating site-specific works inspired by the confluence region and indigenous water spirits.” #STL

#STL doom loop or building boom?

"Through funds made available from the Prop NS fund, roughly $6 million a year, city officials hired contractors to stabilize the homes, which typically entails fixing a building’s roof, foundation, exterior walls or other aspects that keep a home from deteriorating." #STL

The most important newspaper in St. Louis since 1878 (and indeed one of the nation’s greatest newspapers) is on death’s door. #STL

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"The saga of the two-story brick building on Cherokee Street’s Antique Row seems to demonstrate the extent to which accused slumlord Dara Daugherty is willing to go to retain her real estate holdings" #STL

The work in question is a series of frescoes by Ben Shahn celebrating the 1935 establishment of Social Security. “I think the Social Security mural is the best work I’ve done,” Shahn wrote when he completed the work in June 1942. #WPA

"Snøhetta was selected out of a field of 36 candidates as design architect and landscape architect. This renowned firm, based in Oslo, Norway, designed the National September 11 Museum Pavilion at the World Trade Center in New York City and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art..." #STL

“After six years of construction, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s new $1.75 billion ‘west campus’ — lauded as the largest federal investment in St. Louis history — opened Friday.” #STL

"Fairground Park for All intends to take the city’s previous master plan, revise it, and move forward with a mission focusing on the beautification of the park." #STL

"NGA’s presence in St. Louis since the 1940s is a point of pride for employees, and the new facility doubles down on the agency’s commitment to the region... relocating to North City meant the agency had to rethink its presence in the community." #STL

"The $1.1 billion proposal would have run a street-level light-rail train connecting Jefferson Avenue, Chippewa Street and Fairground Park." #STL

“The demolition of the building at 10215 Count Drive in the Castlepoint area kicked off an $11 million project to tear down properties identified by St. Louis County officials.” #STL

Conspiracy theories about Bible giants and other such nonsense would be "laughable" if they "were not a kind of Trojan horse to soften up the public to accept political propaganda in place of history and complete the assault on America’s museums that failed in the 1990s."

On the #STL Tornado of 1927.

"The LRA currently owns around 9,000 properties that are available for purchase, and 85% of those parcels are vacant lots. The remaining 15% are vacant buildings" #STL

“Sumner High School is celebrating its 150th anniversary. Though the school is historic, alumni are fighting to keep the school open. They say its closure due to the tornado is concerning, but they are optimistic that it will be fully restored.” #STL

Fuck cancer.

“The improvements to the road include repaving it, adding new trees and lighting, sidewalk and crosswalk improvements, traffic management upgrades and protected bike lanes.” #STL

“Children who lived near a St. Louis creek polluted with radioactive atomic bomb waste from the 1940s through the 1960s were more likely to be diagnosed with cancer over their lifetimes than children who lived farther from the waterway, a new study has found.” #STL

wrote about the spirit of public good that birthed public media in the U.S., the Senate's vote to halt all federal funding to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and what this really means for your favorite NPR and PBS stations, both local and national: slate.com/technology/2...