Two story home under construction with scaffolding ready for brick exterior application. Pallets of brick in front. Next door is an older brick home with an addition in back that isn't very visible.

Bricks at the ready for Fill-In Friday!

The builder of this two-story infill home also rehabbed (with an rear addition) the adjacent 19th century oldie that was long vacant and threatened with demolition after a big fire. Nice!

Gen X is genuinely unwell.

Views from the office 📸

Tonight, we are wearing black armbands in memory of Ilona Löwen.

Thank you to LAFC and everyone with us tonight at BMO Stadium for showing your support with a moment of silence 🤍

Police Board shows off decrepit basement to make the case for more money The Board of Police Commissioners yesterday chose the dilapidated basement of a Central West End police building to make their case that they are serious when they say they really need $250 million fo...

And MY GOD a tour of a moldy basement in the CWE crying for $25 million of OUR money for the SLMPD?!?! When homes RIGHT THERE are still waiting to be healed from the tornado?! And a Capital Fund unmet need $500 million across city? What makes the cops so damn special?!
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Yep, this tracks

Marcel Hartel is relishing his role under new coach When St. Louis CITY SC head coach Yoann Damet took the reins ahead of the 2026 season, Marcel Hartel could hardly contain his excitement. “All I have to say is it’s a very good structure,” Hartel said...

The German soccer player scored his first goal of the season and the first of the 2026 MLS regular season.

Trump's Friday morning so far:

-- extremely disappointing 4th quarter GDP number
-- inflation report hotter than expected
-- Supreme Court strikes down tariffs

kind of amazing that everything trump does can be understood through the lens of narcissism and it's related needs (e.g., self aggrandizement, revenge, domination, grievance validation). i don't think any character has been so one-dimensional, not even wile e coyote or scrooge mcduck

some of you are looksmaxxing when you need to be booksmaxxing

cover of the band Pure Hell’s album NOISE ADDICTION, featuring four glammed-out Black men looking cool as hell

PURE HELL was the first Black punk band. They lasted from 1974-1979, but a falling out with their manager meant their record didn’t come out until 2010. I gave it a listen:

www.lazyandentitled.org?p=162658013

Is "single-stair reform" (allowing single-stair egress) an important facet?

Are incentives?

How do we create an environment where developers desire to build 3+ bedroom rental units?

Historic Carondelet church was nearly saved—but fire had other plans For more than 160 years, Quinn Chapel stood in the Carondelet neighborhood, erected when that neighborhood was its own independent city separate from St. Louis. Built as the one-story, brick North Pub...

The city took action on long-vacant Quinn Chapel, but its efforts didn’t come to fruition fast enough.

Instead of another unproductive heat island, perhaps the Treasurer should be focused on ways he can help #stltornado victims.
#carsruincities

There’s no shortage of parking on Olive Blvd. The excessively wide, underutilized street already serves as a parking lot 🤦🏼‍♂️. Alders should vote no on this nonsense.
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Inside Opaque Collective, South Broadway’s new print shop and DIY art hub There’s a new bright spot on South Broadway. Not only is Opaque Collective, the new screen printing shop and arts space at 7401 S. Broadway, bringing more community-building and art-making efforts to ...

The collective will celebrate its grand opening with ‘Route 69,’ an exhibition from Janie Stamm and Brittany Mosier, on March 20.

What a bunch of fucking morons. I did $90m in construction business last year and I’m pretty sure most of my clients will be affected by this. They build businesses here, employ US citizens, construction companies, serve our communities. Think about those Somali daycares with real children in them

I’ve been writing about the AT&T tower for nearly a decade, and today I finally got a chance to go inside 🙂

No executive board room tour unfortunately, though I’m told it has “Ritz Carlton old money” vibes.

Story TK tomorrow

Trump says Republicans should 'nationalize' elections During an appearance on former deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino’s podcast, Trump suggested Republicans should "take over" the voting process in some places.

President Trump says Republicans should “take over the voting” from states as he repeated his disproven claims of voter fraud.

There’s currently a bald eagle in Forest Park!
🦅
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Billie Eilish during her #GRAMMYs speech for Song of the Year:

“As grateful as I feel, I don’t need to say anything except that, no one is illegal on stolen land. It’s really hard to know what to say and what to do right now, I feel hopeful in this room and we need to keep protesting… fuck ICE.”

You find out how much a business/property owner/government/community values people outside of cars when it snows.
Also businesses chronically underestimate the portion of their patrons who arrive by other means than a car.
#stlwx #carsruincities

A sidewalk on Chippewa outside Target, covered in 9 inches of snow. It’s been heavily trafficked by pedestrians.

A sidewalk on Hampton outside Walgreens with a bus shelter, covered in 9 inches of snow. It’s been heavily trafficked by pedestrians.

A sidewalk off Hampton outside Walgreens, covered in 9 inches of snow.

Every company that plows their parking lot while neglecting their sidewalks is not only flouting their legal obligation. They are sending a clear message about which of their customers and neighbors they deem worthy of care and access. Looking at you, Walgreens and Target. #StLouis #stl #stlwx

NOAA cuts weather balloon launches due to staff shortages after DOGE layoffs | Alabama Reflector Weather forecasts in media are almost certainly derived from data and model computations made by the National Weather Service using weather balloons.

If you're wondering why weather forecasts were like, "You can expect anywhere from 4-179 inches of snow this weekend," it's because Elon Musk fired tons of NOAA/NWS folks who were sending up the weather balloons that help with accurate modeling and forecasting.

alabamareflector.com/2025/04/01/n...

Bottom-right building owner and builder’s website: richard-higby-design.com

Some perspective: The S&P opened down -1.3% on Trump's Greenland saber-rattling. That's $750 billion of wealth destroyed -- roughly equal to estimates of the value of Greenland.

And so ~in dollar terms~ his shenanigans have already cost the US one Greenland, and we've got nothing to show for it.

A world where NATO and the postwar order falls destroys all that. If you cannot make a case for it, get out of the way of people who will. If we aren’t fighting for this there’s nothing else to fight for

Every city has their own unique challenges post-pandemic, but we are not that special