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Staff photographer, @stltoday.bsky.social. Formerly @memphisnews and another newspaper that is now a Holiday Inn. WhoDat faithful. Pulitzer Prizer.
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We reached DEFCON F*CK Trump repealed Pres. Johnson’s 1965 EO prohibiting federal contractors from having segregated restaurants, waiting rooms, & drinking fountains. Enter Jim Crow 2.0 tinyurl.com/Trump-segreg...

Teammates wear jerseys honoring Captain Brayden Schenn's 1000th game as Schenn, top center, leads a pregame drill. @stlouisblues.bsky.social #stlblues

The Cole family, featured in today's newspaper and @stltoday.com, has setup a gofundme account to help them rebuild from Friday's tornado. www.gofundme.com/f/devastated...

St. Louis County woman among 12 dead after storms rampage across Missouri #stlwx www.stltoday.com/news/local/m...

"It was a scary ride, I'll tell you that," said trucker Mark Nelson of Wisconsin as he awaits a tow after his semi-trailer overturned in high winds on I-44 westbound near Villa Ridge during Friday night's storms in the St. Louis area. #stlwx

Photos: Ink flows on #314Day in St. Louis. www.stltoday.com/news/multime...

A very quick stop in Rocky Mountain National Park, where reports say at least 750 federal employees have been laid off. Hopeful that the elk are allowed to stay.

Another reminder of why I stopped using the Post Office. A small package arrived in St. Louis March 5 and is still floating somewhere. A week ago it actually got to my zip code and then drifted away. Follow the bouncing ball. Unreal.

The last year has been death by a thousand private equity cuts for Southwest Airlines, ever since Elliott Investment Management bought a $1.9 billion stake in the company. 🔗 https://www.dallasobserver.com/news/dallas-southwest-airlines-gets-worse-with-end-of-free-bag-policy-21906895 

Photos: The Drake Bulldogs are headed back to the Big Dance after clinching the Missouri Valley Conference's Arch Madness title.

Ice cream man just rolled by.

5 takeaways from St. Louis' mayoral primary -- and the road ahead. Got a sixth takeaway for @ryankrull.bsky.social? Let us know! www.stlmag.com/news/takeawa...

Meet my twin.

BLOOMBERG: Financial markets are signaling that the risk of a recession is growing as tariff-related uncertainty and indicators of economic weakness spread fear across Wall Street as bankers prepare for a possible Trump-engineered recession. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

This stinks. FiveThirtyEight was an amazing site for data-driven journalism and sports analysis. And I loved incorporating their data into old-school retrocomputing/BBS projects.

It's snowing. #stlwx

Cara Spencer wins primary for St. Louis mayor; Tishaura Jones makes runoff www.stltoday.com/news/local/g...

As President Trump walked into Congress, Melanie Stansbury, a Democrat from New Mexico, held up a sign that said “This is not normal.” Follow the scene from Trump’s joint address to Congress: wapo.st/4hpeB2V

President Trump said in his address to Congress that he inherited an “economic catastrophe” from Joe Biden. The U.S. had the strongest economy in the world when Trump took over, but it's shown signs of strain from Trump's federal funding cuts and tariffs. Follow live.

The best of February photos by @stltoday.com photographers www.stltoday.com/news/multime...

Primary voting in the mayor's race this morning at Mathews-Dickey Boys and Girls Club, American-Czech Educational Center and Buder Library, where @mayor.stlouis-mo.gov and @caraspencer.bsky.social worked the same parking lot.

Federal agents seize guns, grenade launcher in raid of St. Louis home, via Kim Bell. www.stltoday.com/news/local/c...

Quick 🧵 regarding the recent town halls and protests: There was a key, tense moment amid the Freedom Rides that some were urging John Lewis to pull back. To not be so visible. But to him, the visible confrontation was the key. “To me, the matter was simple,” he wrote. 1/

I’m too old to go to loud restaurants, no matter how good the food.

Pulitzer Feeling Increasingly Out Of Place In Washington Post Office

Sturkey photographed John F. Kennedy on the campaign trail, Lyndon B. Johnson sitting on the porch of a tenant farmer in Rocky Mount, Richard Nixon, Billy Graham, Pope John Paul II, Satchel Paige, Elvis Presley and Carl Sandburg. bit.ly/3CXvRhw #newsphotographer, #CharlotteObserver, #DonSturkey

As egg prices surge, St. Louis-area farmers fight to protect their hens, via Hannah Wyman. On a personal note, I've never walked through 5000 chickens before. www.stltoday.com/news/local/b...

Friends, I 🥲’d

Clint Hill, the Secret Service agent who dove onto President John F. Kennedy’s uncovered limousine in Dallas in a heroic attempt to shield him from the fatal gunshots Lee Harvey Oswald fired, died Feb. 21. He was 93.

Bullet casings everywhere after a man was shot in his leg this morning in the 3600 block of Wisconsin Avenue in the Marine Villa neighborhood.

For those following the story of unidentified men violently dragging a protester from a local Idaho GOP meeting, it turns out they were from a private security firm called LEAR Asset Management. But neither the sheriff (who watched it all go down) or the GOP will take responsibility for hiring them.

Philly has finally come up with a way to reduce crime -- just win the Super Bowl www.inquirer.com/crime/eagles...

First JFK Library briefly closed after several staffers were laid off. Now the Carter Library had to cancel author events for books about climate change, homelessness and the civil rights movement. But the Reagan, Nixon and both Bush libraries seem to be just fine. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/a...

Sometimes backlight is a photographer's friend as the sun lights the spray from a St. Louis Fire Dept. aerial on Truck 10, as firefighter C. Hogue mans the nozzle at a vacant building fire in the Lewis Place neighborhood.

St. Louis digs out as Michael Young makes sure people can get their fix of Donut Drive-In safely. #stlwx

Pastor Kathleen Wilder of Centenary UMC downtown has opened a continuous warming center with help from staff of the Restorative Justice Movement. The center is set to stay open until Feb. 22 when it warms up outside.

As abortion services resume in Missouri, protests do too, via Hannah Wyman www.stltoday.com/news/local/c...

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