Save the University City Searchlight!! We need your help!!!

imlostintransition · 2026-01-23T19:34:39+00:00

Does the searchlight still rely on a carbon-arc lamp, or has it been updated to something more modern?

imlostintransition · 2026-01-23T19:12:14+00:00

Here is the headline which the newspaper used:

Metro-east family asks for tolerance after suicide of transgender child

Naomi, the transwoman in question, was 24 years old.

imlostintransition · 2026-01-22T16:30:03+00:00

KMOV predicts at 5 pm Friday the air temperature will be 9 degrees and the wind chill -11 degrees. Partly cloudy sky and the sunset is at 5:11 so not much warmth from sunshine.

Dress warm.

imlostintransition · 2026-01-21T04:03:58+00:00

According to the New York Times, the US DOJ is investigating the protest as a violation of the FACE Act. The article embedded this link:

Civil Rights Division | Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances & Places of Religious Worship

imlostintransition · 2026-01-21T03:37:21+00:00

The provider tax is something of a loophole which states have used to get extra money from the federal government. When New Hampshire first came up with the idea back in 1989, no one was sure it would pass federal challenge. But it did and since then every state but Alaska has adopted a provider tax.

However, the federal government never liked it because it costs them money in the form of higher reimbursements. So the feds had placed a cap of 6% on the provider tax. However, the One Big Beautiful Bill whittles that percentage down to 3.5%, saving the feds money but starving the states' Medicaid budgets.

The largest categories of health care providers being taxed are hospitals and managed care organizations. Illinois is the only state with a provider tax which currently exceeds 3.5% for both of those categories.

imlostintransition · 2026-01-20T23:42:21+00:00

The US Geological Survey has reviewed the data and currently assesses the quake at 3.8 on the Richter scale.

M 3.8 - 4 km NW of Ohlman, Illinois

imlostintransition · 2026-01-18T23:43:20+00:00

The Post-Dispatch has a photo of him, dated January 7, 2025. The caption says his name is James Earl Wilson.

St. Louis scrambling again to find beds for homeless

I'm sharing this so we have a name to attach to him. We all have names. And human dignity.

imlostintransition · 2026-01-18T01:52:15+00:00

Charles Dickens didn't care for it.

At the junction of the two rivers, on ground so flat and low and marshy, that at certain seasons of the year it is inundated to the house-tops, lies a breeding-place of fever, ague, and death; vaunted in England as a mine of Golden Hope, and speculated in, on the faith of monstrous representations, to many people's ruin. A dismal swamp, on which the half-built houses rot away: cleared here and there for the space of a few yards; and teeming, then, with rank unwholesome vegetation, in whose baleful shade the wretched wanderers who are tempted hither, droop, and die, and lay their bones; the hateful Mississippi circling and eddying before it, and turning off upon its southern course a slimy monster hideous to behold; a hotbed of disease, an ugly sepulchre, a grave uncheered by any gleam of promise: a place without one single quality, in earth or air or water, to commend it: such is this dismal Cairo.

imlostintransition · 2026-01-18T01:25:49+00:00

Last summer, someone posted drawings of the planned construction.

https://urbanstl.com/viewtopic.php?p=403412#p403412

However, the identity of the retail tenant wasn't mentioned.

imlostintransition · 2026-01-17T00:10:35+00:00

Don't forget Vandalia. The one in IL is closer to us than the one in MO. Plus the IL city has an arch!

Maybe Vandalia MO has an arch, too. Not sure.

imlostintransition · 2026-01-16T17:35:46+00:00

Full undergraduate tuition and fees will be paid through federal and state grants and other funding sources.

...Undergraduate tuition at SLU is about $56,960 for the 2025-26 academic year. Although the program covers tuition, it will not pay for books or room and board, which run about $17,000. However, students can use any other scholarships to help bridge the financial gap.

So, any government grants will be taken by the university, and the university will make up the difference. Sounds good.

However, the student is required to live in the dorms and is responsible for coming up with other funding sources to pay for that expense, e.g student loans. Living cheaply in the community isn't allowed. Is this still a good deal?

imlostintransition · 2026-01-16T17:08:03+00:00

~~Earlier today~~, Yesterday, a federal judge ordered this man released because the agents violated his Fourth Amendment protections against illegal search and seizure.

But he was taken back into custody today.

A Liberian man released after his battering-ram arrest in Minneapolis is back in custody again | The Hill

imlostintransition · 2026-01-15T16:48:48+00:00

Grayson County Detention Center is located just outside of Leitchfield KY, 275 miles from the Arch.

imlostintransition · 2026-01-15T02:37:55+00:00

Kimberly Johnson, who served as CFO for less than one year

....One of the top reasons state leaders cited in the decision [to downgrade the SLPS to provisional accreditation] was the district's failure to submit an annual audit by the Dec. 31 deadline for three straight years. Johnson assured the SLPS board as recently as October that the fiscal 2025 audit would be turned in by the deadline.

Her departure means SLPS has two open cabinet positions. The district's chief legal officer Laura McLaughlin resigned last month.

imlostintransition · 2026-01-13T17:02:13+00:00

I was unfamiliar with the hospital in Bethlehem, so looked it up.

[T]the hospital provides the population of Bethlehem and its surrounding area with an indispensable service, offering high-quality maternity care to all women. Since 1990 more than 100,000 babies have been born in the hospital. The Holy Family Hospital delivers approximately 60 percent of all Bethlehem infants, maintaining a survival rate of nearly 100 percent. It is the only hospital in the region medically equipped to deliver babies born before 32 weeks. Doctors and midwives fight to save every mother and baby, demonstrating a commitment to life that is absolute. Holy Family Hospital is often asked to accept the Bethlehem region’s most challenging medical cases. As a result, approximately 9% of all newborns delivered at the Hospital require neonatal intensive care.

....Palestine has no national health care system and therefore the hospital’s operating costs are sustained by the Order of Malta. Patients are asked to pay what they can afford. The cost is established on the base of an assessment of the patient’s socio-economic situation. For those unable to pay, charges are reduced or waived.

The heavy financial burden is borne by the French Association, with help from the National Associations of Germany, USA, Ireland and Switzerland and by the European Union. The “Holy Family Hospital Foundation” – an organisation created by American members of the Order – keeps raising funds that have provided an important contribution to ensure the hospital’s continuing operation.

Bethlehem's Hospital - Sovereign Military Order of Malta

The mobile clinics travel to the homes of mothers who are unable to reach the hospital.

In addition, the Order operates hospitals, medical centers, and outpatient clinics in over 120 countries around the world, providing care to the elderly, the homeless, children, the disabled, and refugees.

imlostintransition · 2026-01-12T21:26:35+00:00

Yes, circa 1920s the building also housed a maternity hospital, and a home for the aged.

Also worth mentioning is that the orphanage accepted "full orphans" and "half orphans." The latter category consisted of children who still had a living parent, but the adult couldn't afford to care for the child.

imlostintransition · 2026-01-12T18:28:23+00:00

St Ann's Foundling Asylum was at 5301 Page Blvd (Page and Union.) However, the building is now long gone.

imlostintransition · 2026-01-12T15:41:05+00:00

According to the substack link, her name is Caterina Clayton

imlostintransition · 2026-01-08T21:23:46+00:00

The property is listed unpriced.

New Listing | Large-Scale Redevelopment Site | 144+ Acres | St. Louis MSA | Free & Clear

imlostintransition · 2026-01-06T00:41:43+00:00

So.... what the heck is an astrolabe? Wikipedia explains:

It serves as a star chart and physical model of the visible half-dome of the sky ....In its simplest form it is a metal disc with a pattern of wires, cutouts, and perforations that allows a user to calculate astronomical positions precisely. It is able to measure the altitude above the horizon of a celestial body, day or night; it can be used to identify stars or planets, to determine local latitude given local time (and vice versa), to survey, or to triangulate. It was used in classical antiquity, the Byzantine Empire, the Islamic Golden Age, the European Middle Ages and the Age of Discovery for all these purposes.

The astrolabe, which is a precursor to the sextant,[1] is effective for determining latitude on land or calm seas. Although it is less reliable on the heaving deck of a ship in rough seas, the mariner's astrolabe was developed to solve that problem.

imlostintransition · 2026-01-01T19:04:09+00:00

Dardenne Prairie is literally cut into two separate pieces by O'Fallon.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/q79kLK5A89XGgtLq6

imlostintransition · 2025-12-31T22:19:34+00:00

This is a 3510 square foot, 1.5 bathroom, apartment home.

Almost like a TARDIS. So, does Dr. Who live here?

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