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Missouri Senate Democrats stall GOP push to change initiative petition process

1 year 4 months ago
Missouri Senate Democrats are blocking a vote on setting a higher threshold for passing constitutional amendments, filibustering a bill they see as a pure Republican power grab. For more than five hours Monday and again for almost six hours on Tuesday, Democrats held the floor to discuss their objections to a proposal to require constitutional amendments on the ballot to pass in five of the state’s eight congressional districts along with achieving a statewide majority. The filibuster ended when…
Rudi Keller

Company continues to argue Missouri cannabis workers can’t unionize

1 year 4 months ago
Ahmad Haynes and a handful of employees at BeLeaf Medical’s Sinse Cannabis site in St. Louis anxiously waited for the clock to hit 5 p.m. He and his co-workers had gathered outside the St. Louis Public Library’s Barr branch, where they had cast their votes to unionize earlier that afternoon on Feb. 6. The election came after a hard-fought legal battle that began in September with their employer contesting their eligibility to unionize. Minutes before 5 p.m., they all shuffled into a library…
Rebecca Rivas

Missouri appeals court fines litigant after finding fake, AI-generated cases cited in filings

1 year 4 months ago
An O’Fallon, Missouri, man who used artificial intelligence to generate almost two dozen fake citations in a legal brief must pay $10,000 in sanctions for wasting the time of his courtroom opponents, the Missouri Eastern District Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday. In a case that originated in St. Charles County, Jonathan Karlen was appealing a decision that he and other defendants must pay more than $311,000 to Molly Kruse, an employee of his company that created websites, for unpaid wages, interest…
Rudi Keller

Kirkwood to consider closing a portion of Jefferson Avenue, turn it over to church

1 year 4 months ago
West Jefferson Avenue is one of the busiest streets in Kirkwood's downtown business district. “It’s very, very crowded,” resident Dan Monahan said. “It’s very busy, especially when the school gets out, and lunch time,” resident Susan Fulton said. For St. Peter Catholic Church, with more than 6,500 members of its congregation and 500 students, the busy street is causing a bit of a problem. “There’s been school traffic across Jefferson since I went there in the early '60s,”…
Holden Kurwicki

Demolition begins on old Berkeley City Hall

1 year 4 months ago
The city of Berkeley is about to look different, as the city's redevelopment plan gets into full swing. Monday morning, demolition began on the old Berkeley City Hall building at 6140 N. Hanley Road. City leaders claimed the demolition signifies a "pivotal moment" for Berkeley's urban landscape. The city has its new city hall up and running off Airport Road. "It's a very exciting day to me and, it's been a long coming," Mayor Babatunde Deinbo said. This is all a part of a "transformative journey,"…
Mercedes Mackay

Soccer league organizers accused of stealing thousands of dollars from organization

1 year 4 months ago
Three people associated with the Troy Soccer League, including two organizers, were charged last week with stealing thousands of dollars from the organization over several years. Lincoln County prosecutors charged Donna Gail Vickrey and Erica Jean Kellock with one felony count each of stealing $25,000 or more. Uriah Franklin Hayes, a concession stand contractor, was charged with one felony count of stealing $750 or more. From 2018 to February 2023, Vickrey was the Troy Soccer League's president…
Kelsi Anderson