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Childcare centers across Missouri grapple with staff retention issues

14 hours 15 minutes ago
As more discussions about supplying adequate, affordable childcare are had across the state, childcare centers continue to struggle with staff retention. Beth Ann Lang, deputy chief executive officer of Child Care Aware of Missouri, has been working to address Missouri’s childcare crisis for more than 20 years. Lang said there are many deep-rooted issues within […]
Emma Jones

Night Comfort

14 hours 16 minutes ago

The High Low Gallery presents a new exhibition, Night Comfort, featuring works by St. Louis artist Jeremy Rabus, opening Friday, March 27 and running through Sunday, June 14. Night Comfort explores nostalgia through […]

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Myranda Levins

As ICE presence at World Cup looms, fans and local leaders prepare

15 hours 16 minutes ago
BROOKLYN, N.Y. — On a recent weekday evening, Avram Kline kicked a soccer ball to his son on the bright green pitch in Brooklyn Bridge Park, where the skyscrapers of Manhattan loom just across the East River. Kline is a self-described soccer superfan who founded the Newcomers Football Club, a mutual aid group to support […]
Shalina Chatlani

Wak’a Garden

15 hours 16 minutes ago

Begin Again: Wak'a Garden is the second installment in Laumeier’s Begin Again series, honoring the Park’s 50-year history of collaborating with artists and supporting new commissions and exhibitions. The organic, amphitheater-shaped sculpture, built […]

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Myranda Levins

2 men injured in double shooting in north St. Louis

16 hours 2 minutes ago
ST. LOUIS - Two men were injured after a shooting Thursday night in north St. Louis. According to the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department, the shooting occurred around 9:30 p.m. in the 1500 block of N. Kingshighway Blvd., near Dr. Martin Luther King Dr., in the city's Kingsway East neighborhood. Both men were critically injured [...]
Nick Gladney

Strong candidates in Alaska, Ohio seen as moving US Senate races toward Dems

16 hours 16 minutes ago
Democrats’ prospects in a trio of key U.S. Senate races are improving, an influential elections forecaster said Thursday, though Republicans are still favored to retain control of the chamber after the midterm elections. Sabato’s Crystal Ball, which predicts election outcomes, moved three races — in North Carolina, Alaska and Ohio — in Democrats’ favor. After the […]
Jacob Fischler

Missouri courts keep rewriting ballot language as fights over direct democracy intensify

16 hours 21 minutes ago
As Missouri secretary of state, Denny Hoskins is often responsible for reducing complicated ballot measures to a few sentences voters can understand. In his first year and a half in office, judges have repeatedly found those sentences unfair, insufficient or misleading. Courts have rejected or rewritten Hoskins’ descriptions five times on measures involving abortion, redistricting, […]
Jason Hancock

PortKC’s oversight failures are now Missouri lawmakers’ problem

16 hours 25 minutes ago
In June 2025, I wrote that PortKC, Kansas City’s ubiquitous subsidy-granting agency, was too powerful, too poorly run, and subject to too little oversight. Evidence from the past year has only strengthened that conclusion. If Kansas City’s leaders are unwilling to demand more, state legislators must. PortKC’s portfolio has grown far beyond its original mission. […]
Patrick Tuohey