I’ve never been in the Army, but there’s a saying that goes something like… “hours and hours of unspeakable boredom followed by moments of sheer terror.” That’s sort of how I felt at the beginning of the Moonlight Ramble bike ride.
On my 12-mile hike with the Boy Scouts through the heart of the city last month, as the day wore on, the big question was: if we stopped walking, would we fall over and call someone to pick us up?
Previous St. Louis mayors have floated the idea, usually under pressure from business leaders, but the trial balloons were quickly popped for a simple reason: the earnings tax generates 31 percent of the city’s revenue.
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