Each month at SLM, we look at the topics dominating the news and list them according to our heat index. What’s hot this month? Find out below.
Hot: Football Blues (and Golds)
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As the NFL’s season gets underway, cases of “football seasonal affective disorder” will hit levels unseen in St. Louis since 1988, when the football Cardinals migrated to Arizona. The bright side: You won’t have to suffer through another losing season.
Warm: Pokémon Go
The augmented-reality mobile game topped Twitter in daily users, led a teenager to stumble upon a dead body, and saw four O’Fallon, Missouri, teens arrested after they allegedly used the game to lure distracted players to their location.
Cool: Regional cooperation
This summer, Mayor Francis Slay wrote the Federal Transit Authority in support of a north-south MetroLink line. Days later, County Executive Steve Stenger sent a letter in opposition.
Cold: Political ads
This year’s political ad season has beamed to your TV countless hours’ worth of firearms being brandished, prayers being offered, and insults being lobbed—as if there wasn’t enough of all that on the tube. November elections can’t come soon enough.
