Another day, another brush with heat records, as St. Louis suffers through a heat wave that is threatening to rewrite local record books in both intensity and duration.

If you missed it: Here’s our weekend read about flood-damaged homes left vacant or condemned, and the long road to #flood recovery that many area residents have endured for the past year and counting.

Flood victims still face big repairs, slow insurance money. Some may have to lift their homes. Via Nassim Benchaabane and Bryce Gray stltoday.com/news/local/gov… via St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Perhaps my favorite genre: An entertaining merger of small-town Montana news and bigger questions about the future of transportation and energy in rural America.
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Last week we went into the River Des Peres tunnel, which is strewn with massive piles of concrete moved by the #flood -prone waterway. Experts say lingering blockages there and in the channel upstream worsen flood risks. But no one is acting to clean it up.
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St. Louis is facing quite the week of whiplash from one #climate risk to another:

Smoke from Canadian wildfires yesterday and today.

Dangerous, triple-digit heat tomorrow and on Friday.
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Canadian wildfire smoke hits St. Louis ahead of triple-digit heat. St. Louis skyline as seen looking down Market Street at Jefferson and the skyline is totally blocked out as seen from the Skinker Blvd. exit from 64/40. stltoday.com/news/local/met… via St. Louis Post-Dispatch A

When Doves Fly...

Loved this story’s many surprises, from young doves ('squabs,' apparently) finding their way home from across the state, to the unfortunate encounter a flock had with the Olympic cauldron in 1988.

Hoops are coming to Tower Grove Park. And maybe soon to Forest Park.

A relative boom of new #basketball venues is helping to erode what many say is a glaring absence of courts in St. Louis' prominent public spaces — and a signal of where Black people are or aren’t welcome.

Love that a friend and I saw these Nugs lose at home to a Pistons team on its way to an NBA-worst record that was playing Cory Joseph in crunch time.

Just shows the awesome power of those #teal '90s throwbacks Detroit was rocking. Champs got nothing on those! #TransitiveProperty

All this stirred up fear and distrust, when we know for sure the real harm in closing a school. Story by Bryce Gray
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The latest analysis from the Army Corps resoundingly concluded that #radiation in and right around Jana Elementary is normal and that the school is safe for use.

How normal? It says radiation risks at the site are 8x lower than someone would face for simply living in Colorado.

Reminiscent of scenes in the western US during 2020. Hard to believe this is occurring in the Northeast.

The #soy industry is betting big on #aquaculture as a market for soy-based feed.

And farming fish is a big deal. One on hand, fish are far more efficient at converting feed into meat than cows and pigs. But sourcing that soy and managing those farms 'has to be done responsibly.”

It’s been an unusually dry May around St. Louis — closing in on being the city’s driest in nearly 20 years and putting the area on the brink of drought, experts say.

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This is basically the pinnacle of human achievement - or maybe second only to Twista's verse on Slow Jamz.

Looks as if St. Louis County's push to ban pedestrians from roads is picking up some widespread attention and notoriety.

If you missed it: Some St. Louis-area residents were slammed by flash #flooding on back-to-back days this weekend.

It's a problem that's increasingly familiar. And it accompanies a familiar but still unanswered question about who should manage the issue.
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