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According to US News and World Report Barnes Jewish Hospital in St. Louis is not only the best in the St. Louis metro area, but one of the top 14 hospitals in the country, ranked at number 8.
The list of how local metro hospitals ranked. Interestingly, Anderson Hospital in Maryville comes in ahead of Barnes Jewish of West County.
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MoDOT is going to announce plans to construct a trolley system in Forest Park. This trolley line will take visitors to various St. Louis attractions, the hope being to alleviate traffic around I-40 and Hampton.
Actually, the trolley drawing pretty much looks like a jolly painted up bus. And if you've been in St. Louis for any time at all, you know most people around here avoid buses if they can.
We'll see how this works.
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An unsettling conversation yesterday afternoon with a local neighbor visiting with her dog.
We were talking about the return of the owls to our area and their constant hunt for little animals/birds to feed their new babies.
Neighbor: I didn't know there were owls nearby, but there are bats.
The rest of us: Bats?
Neighbor: We saw at least 250 bats.
Us:
Neighbor: Yes. We watched from our window as all these bats flew across the road near My Daddy's Cheesecake, swirled around the top of the chimney at the old CBC high school and then they all flew down into the chimney.
Us: Ugh.
One of us: Well, bats are good for getting rid of mosquitoes.
Another of us: Owls go after bats, they can catch them on the fly.
Neighbor: I wonder what this means for the summer.
One of us: Two bats always come and sit in my father's pool, cool their feet.
Another of us: oh eeeuw good for mosquitoe control but eeeuw
One of us: Looks like the neighborhood has a food supply for two bird types.
Neighbor: You really should walk down and see all the bats go down the chimney.
Us: Hopefully the owls will find them
One of us: It's a strange image, all these horror film birds in an urban area.
Another of us: We share the world, we just forget this too often.
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By the numbers
3-week reprieve from a government shut down by congress
10-day recess following vote for above
70-hours the republican led house has spent debating the budget this year.
5-hours the democratic led senate has spent debating the budget this year.
107-votes the rep led house has had on both dem and rep budget amendments
4-votes the senate has had on the budget
11-days until another gov shutdown looms
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From The Anchoress pondering the death of Geraldine Ferraro-where politics and religion meet.
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Anheuser Busch is buying Chicago's famous Goose Island Brewery for $38.8 million.
And, Busch IV is leaving the company. Not because of the new sale, though.
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Fox 2 News has unveiled a new helicopter today, a sleeker, smarter helicopter that the pilot John Brubaker is still trying to figure out. Just keep it in the air, John.
It's in the air today folks.
Look up in the sky around rush hour. You might see it.
It's the Bommarito SKY FOX helicopter!
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Concordia Seminary unveiled a new website on Friday which will constantly update the new renovations going on at Koburg Hall and the outside. At the moment there are many interesting photos of what has happened so far including the process by which lumber began as seminary oak trees and is now usable wood for the new project.
Coming soon will be feed from video cams taking snaps every 15 minutes which will then be strung together. There are also drawings and maps of the plan and as time goes by tidbits from the history of the original construction. And a discussion on how a Holly tree which was taken down will be made into communion ware for the chapel.
Take a look at Phase One and check back often.
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From the Belleville News-Democrat, Collinsville begins at the bottom of the page and continues on the next page.
Most of these blurbs don't tell a voter much, they're pretty similar and frankly, hardly worth your time. The paper even somehow got Mike Tognarelli's high school wrong, reporting he graduated from Cathedral High School instead of Collinsville High School.
I can't find a P-D link, but there should be one. I'll keep looking.
Candidate questionaires from the Collinsville Connection on Facebook-city council.
Candidate questionaires from the Collinsville Connection-School board
Later this week, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday Charter will broadcast the forum on the local channel.
Updated: today the video of the open forums held last week will be online.
Voters in Collinsville are very fortunate to have the video options, so many local cities never bother.
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Yesterday I mentioned how Media Matters, a left POV site has declared war on Fox News. Well it looks like it isn't just liberal news outlets. The White House seems to have joined the battle.
On Fox News Sunday Chris Wallace related that Obama sent Clinton and Gates to CBS, NBC, ABC but not to Fox to explain why we sent servicemen and women into combat.
Despite the fact that Fox has more viewers than at least two of those other news outlets.
I'd suggest you just start paying attention to how much Fox bashing and Fox joke making start popping up all over news, talk shows, comedy shows and other media. What's that old technique? Isolate and denigrate til everyone starts to believe it.
It won't be coincidence.
This coming on the heels of an Orlando Sentinal reporter who was locked in a storage closet at a VP Biden event last week. He was able to email out a photo of his closet. He was invited as the pool reporter for the affair.
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