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Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

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This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is MrWilson with a comment about MAGA doing things “for the children”: If conservatives stopped thinking about children so much, the children would be better off and much safer. In second place, it’s an anonymous comment inserting a little optimism into the fear that Section […]
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2026 Women of Distinction: Lynne Burnett Fights for Others on Local and National Levels

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ALTON - Lynne Burnett has always had a fire for giving back. Burnett, one of the YWCA’s eleven 2026 Women of Distinction, will be honored at the Y’s annual gala for her commitment to the community. Whether working in child welfare, advocating for marriage equality, or assisting at the Overnight Warming Location, Burnett does everything she can to help others. “W e're always involved with something,” Burnett said of herself and her wife. Burnett shared that she

Homicide suspect in SWAT standoff found dead in hotel

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FESTUS, Mo. - A homicide suspect died by suicide Sunday morning following an overnight standoff with a SWAT team at the Holiday Inn Express off of Gamel Cemetery Road in Festus. The incident began Saturday night as detectives tracked the individual in connection with the death of a woman found in Fenton. Jefferson County detectives [...]

This Weekend in History on February 14 and 15: City of St. Louis Founded

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On February 14, 1929, seven men were killed in Chicago in what became known as the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre. The attack was part of a struggle between rival criminal organizations during the Prohibition era, when the United States banned most alcohol sales and a huge illegal market took its place. At the time, the killings shocked the public because they showed how organized crime could operate with military-style planning in a major city. It still matters today because it helped push

Attorney General Raoul Leads Coalition Of Attorneys General Opposing Rollback Of Crucial Fair Housing Regulations

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CHICAGO — Attorney General Kwame Raoul today co-led a coalition of 24 state attorneys general in sending a comment letter to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) opposing an unlawful attempt to roll back regulations under the Fair Housing Act (FHA). The FHA prohibits discrimination based on the effects of a housing policy, even if the intent of the policy was not to discriminate. HUD’s proposed rule change would remove all mentions of liability under the FH