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Enshittification Ahoy: Streaming Video Price Hikes Show No Sign Of Slowing Down

10 hours 2 minutes ago
Now that streaming subscriber growth has slowed, we’ve noted repeatedly how the streaming TV sector is falling into all of the bad habits that ultimately doomed traditional cable TV. That has involved chasing pointless “growth for growth’s sake” megamergers, imposing bottomless price hikes and new annoying restrictions on customers, undermining labor, and cutting corners on product quality in […]
Karl Bode

Today's Weather: Showers and Fog This Morning

10 hours 18 minutes ago
Expect a mostly cloudy day with some showers mainly early on in. High temperatures will reach around 55 degrees with a low near 49 overnight. Winds will be out of the south-southeast at about 9 to 15 mph, making it feel a bit chilly. Morning hours bring some light drizzle and dense fog that could reduce visibility to a quarter mile or less, creating potentially hazardous driving conditions until 9 a.m. After mid-morning, showers will taper off but clouds will linger throughout the day. Expect

Federal changes delay long-overdue overhaul of Missouri’s troubled safety net systems

11 hours 37 minutes ago
Missouri’s social services department has in recent years been reprimanded by a judge for illegally denying food assistance and scrutinized by the federal government for massive Medicaid application backlogs. And for more than a decade, the agency has vowed to tackle these problems by overhauling the computer systems that help determine whether people qualify for […]
Steph Quinn

The Trump administration wants everyone to reapply for food stamps. What does that mean?

11 hours 42 minutes ago
U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins’ call for a close reexamination of the 42 million people who receive federal food aid has befuddled advocates and lawmakers, coming mere days after recipients began to see benefits that had been stalled during the government shutdown. Details remain scant a week after Rollins during an interview on the right-wing […]
Jacob Fischler

Foggy start to Thanksgiving week, rain Monday night

12 hours 8 minutes ago
ST. LOUIS - We have dense fog throughout the St. Louis region Monday morning. Visibility is expected to be low through 9 a.m., so plan for extra time out the door. Even as the fog lifts, clouds will linger through the day. Temperatures will only warm into the low-50s. A few rain showers will try [...]
Angela Hutti