We're Number 1!

In baseball and crime. Not that those two actually go together, but you know, someone's gotta be number one in crime. We've surpassed Compton, California, y'all -- outstanding.

All sarcasm aside, St. Louis does indeed have many troubles. The city of St. Louis, that is. I repeatedly try to make that distinction to our family members so they don't worry too much -- we live in the county of St. Louis. The city of St. Louis is its own special place. We live probably a mile or two (as the crow flies) from the city limits of St. Louis, in a wonderful neighborhood where the children walk to school, the neighbors know each other and the police have nothing better to do at 2:43 a.m. than to write parking tickets. (We know this first hand!)

I hope that St. Louis will work on its problems -- the crime rate, the very poor public education system and hopefully the city will be lower on the list of crime ridden cities next year.