Instapundit:

MY DOC IS SUSPICIOUS OF THIS CHANGE: Considering statins? New US cholesterol guidelines may change your decision. An estimated 21.5 million additional adults in the United States may now be eligible for statins under updated cholesterol treatment guidelines, according to a new study.

I read borderline high until they changed blood pressure guidelines, which meant I “needed” a prescription or two. Given that I’m going to visit a new doctor because my old new doctor was in the other health care system in town and my new Obamacare plan is with the other other system, I’ll get a new doctor who will likely want to put me onto cholesterol prescriptions, too. The healthy choice, if you’re considering the health of pharmaceutical company stock prices.

Half of my radio presets and the Worktunes country station will be in one company:

Two longtime radio companies are planning to combine their Springfield radio operations, if approved by federal regulators.

Zimmer Communications and Mid-West Family announced Wednesday that Mid-West Family will merge its Springfield operations into Zimmer Communications, pending approval from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).

The radio presets in the car include:

• Q92.9 (KQRA) (Mid-West Family
• 98.7 The Dove (KTXR) (A service of Zimmer Communications)
• 104.7 The Cave (KKLH) (Mid-West Family)

The radio station that the stereos in the house and the Worktunes radio for mowing is set to 105.1 The Bull (KOMG) (Mid-West Family).

Ostensibly, the radio stations will no longer compete with one another, but aside from the overlap in the country stations (and it’s been a while since I listened to 101.3 Real Country to see how bro country it is), they probably won’t be adjusting the formats too much. I hope.

Panera plans to move headquarters from St. Louis area to Boston suburb, internal memo shows:

Panera Bread plans to move its headquarters from the St. Louis area to Weston, Massachusetts, in the Metro Boston area, according to an internal memo obtained by First Alert 4 Investigates.

CEO Paul Carbone informed all support center team members of the plan in a memo dated July 27, 2026. Staff were also told of the move on a call with Carbone Monday morning. Carbone has been with the company since 2023 and has ties to the Boston area.

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Panera has been open about struggles in recent years, including high costs, a drop in food quality and smaller portions. In response, the company worked to downsize and shift employees to a remote model.

I find it hard to believe there is a competitive advantage in relocating to Boston. But the CEO won’t have to go to the icky middle of the country.

Facebook showed me this Democrat-themed ad:

How do I know it’s a Democrat-themed ad? Because Facebook shows me a preponderance of them. As though it would nudge me. Ah, but haven’t you listed on your determined attributes that I’m extremely conservative and have sold this insight far and wide?

How it works is: A Democrat Secretary of State (::cough, cough:: Robin Carnahan) schedules things that Democrats want on low-turnout Spring elections on off years where most people won’t bother, but the activists will show up. Republicans (Ashcroft II, in the royal line) schedules things Republicans want on high-turnout elections because normal people will outnumber activists.

So: This year, one of the amendments is to tighten restrictions on ballot initiatives making them harder to pass. Which I favor. So although I generally vote against state constitutional amendments (because ballot initiatives are the equivalent of one man, one vote, once principle in action (on low-turnout elections if the Democrats hold the Secretary of State position, etc.) and rewritten by the Secretary of State to clarify or obfuscate according to the Secretary’s party affiliation and position, and….

Yeah, no, this is not taking away the power of the people. It’s taking away the power of gaming this particular system into permanent, untouchable diktats.

So count me in. And no on everything else.

St. Louis leaders look to Detroit for pointers on how to build a lasting resurgence

How can you tell Detroit is resurgent?

Its elected officials and nonprofits will tell you so.

Horror as police pursuit of a truck ends in massive crash with nine rushed to San Francisco hospital

We did not need Cash for Clunkers in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Hollywood demolished cars wholesale.

Concerns over future of southwest Missouri newspapers, employees laid off:

It could be the end of an era for newspaper readers in Taney County, Barry County, Stone County and beyond.

Journalists from the Branson Tri-Lakes News, the Stone County Republican-Crane Chronicle and the Barry County Advertiser told Ozarks First that all employees from these newspapers were laid off today.

I used to take the Branson Tri-Lakes News, but it was one of the first I let go because it was $100 a year–but it was twice a week.

The Stone County Republican was one I renewed even now because it had a number of local columnists I liked, including a garden column by Susan Lamb which I shall miss.

We got the most recent issue in the mail this week, and I said, “Uh oh” to my wife because the front page had been in color but was in black and white. I guess it uh-ohed out.

President Donald Trump on Sunday posted a falsified image of former President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle Obama, waving before boarding an Air Force One that had been spray-painted with graffiti.

It came months after another racist post by the president that showed the couple as primates in a jungle. That one was deleted after stiff, bipartisan backlash.

The breaking news is that there is no news today, or that journalists think posting and being OUTRAGED!!!! about Internet chatter is news.

Want to know why I don’t post about the news much any more and instead am veering into long-winded reminiscences? Because all the news is like that, and posting a hot take on the news would make me like that.

Um, Daily Mail, perhaps you should lay off the knife metaphors given the state of “knife crime” in the UK and because it’s not “MAGA” embracing political violence in the US.

KTHXBAI.

Bolsheoisie:

The children of the well-to-do who, finding themselves not as financially viable as their parents (probably because they got worthless humanity degrees) who embrace revolutionary ideologies, particularly “democratic socialism” (that is, communism) and support violence to achieve those ends even if they’re not doing the violence themselves.

Adjective: Bolsheois.

I have an English degree. I know when to use bourgeoisie and when to use bourgeois. I won’t say that I needed to use them early and often to get a passing grade–but I might be in the last couple of graduating classes that did not and who could run counter to the prevailing orthodoxy and pass.

IT WILL BE 90 DEGREES THIS WEEK! EVERYBODY PANIC!

Pipeline to the CCP: Missouri State trained executives tied to China’s military-industrial complex:

A new report from Strategy Risks found that Missouri State University (MSU) spent roughly two decades training Chinese executives, including individuals who later held positions in state-owned enterprises affiliated with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

If our universities have been giving MBAs to Chinese executives running military-connected companies and taught them financialization over all, offshoring for bigger bonuses, sacrificing quality for short term profit boosts, and failing upward before the consequences of failure are felt, doesn’t that help the United States in the long run?

(Link via Instapundit.)

Missouri bill gives women access to year-long birth control supply:

“It is very difficult to take time off work, to find childcare, to drive somewhere to get birth control, to pay for birth control,” Hile told The Independent.

Awful hard to go to a pharmacy every couple of months to pick up a prescription.

You keep on Independentin’, Missouri Independent.

Finally, the state of Missouri has moved a comma in its mandates on private health insurance.

Small US town left completely isolated and cut off from world after only airlines in town goes under:

After Spirit Airlines shuttered, some small towns were hit particularly hard — leaving at least one airport with an empty flight schedule.

The budget airline ceased operations after 34 years on May 2, 2026, and while many travelers were left scrambling to get new flights, one small airport has been left with no commercial service at all.

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At its peak, Spirit operated 15 weekly flights out of the small airport, with Fort Lauderdale and Orlando as two of the destinations.

This town, less than an hour out of Pittsburgh, had fifteen flights a week at its peak.

You know, the city of Branson used to subsidize flights to its little regional airport, but it looks like it does not have service currently. Just a place for private planes to land. Is Branson isolated? Is it desperate? Not hardly.

Eesh, how oversold for clickbait. And I clicked.

Moment Frontier Airlines plane strikes person on Denver runway seen in horrifying new video

What if he had a suicide vest on?

This plane was taking off and was full of fuel. Bigga badda boom.

I’m a little extra sensitive to the thought because I’ll be getting onto a plane this summer. Maybe.

When we went to St. Louis last month, we stayed right here: Man shot near The Dome at America’s Center, 1 in custody

3:50 in the morning, so we would not have been out of the hotel. But.