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Netflix Expands Its Stupid Password Sharing Crackdown Cash Grab

3 years 2 months ago
We’ve noted how, as Netflix gets bigger and more powerful, it has increasingly behaved more like the cable giants (Comcast) it used to disrupt. For example, once it was big enough to pay telecom giants their pound of flesh, it stopped caring about stuff like net neutrality. But there’s no better example of Netflix’s pivot […]
Karl Bode

After four decades, Hancock Amendment continues to shape Missouri tax policy

3 years 2 months ago

In the late 1970s, inflation pushed wages into higher tax brackets and squeezed homeowners as property tax bills rose with the value of their residences. A southwest Missouri businessman named Mel Hancock, inspired by the California tax limitation ballot measure known as Proposition 13, enlisted the Missouri Farm Bureau and put his own plan for […]

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Rudi Keller

Missouri at 15-year high of fatal and serious crashes

3 years 2 months ago
ST. LOUIS - MoDOT said crashes and fatalities are at an all-time high across the state. Road and safety leaders are now urging drivers and lawmakers to make major changes. MoDOT's lead engineer Nicole Hood said Missouri hit its highest amount of fatal and serious crashes in more than 15 years. MoDOT said many of [...]
Amelia Mugavero

Pep Zone: Soldan High School

3 years 2 months ago
ST. LOUIS – The Pep Zone was at Soldan High School on Friday, September 30. FOX 2’s Chris Regnier hung out with the Tigers. He threw some t-shirts out to the crowd, as well as mini footballs. Head football coach Raymon Edwards then chatted about what it's like to be a Soldan Tiger. Regnier then [...]
Chris Regnier

Federal prisons ‘riddled with mismanagement’ probed by U.S. Senate panel

3 years 2 months ago

WASHINGTON — Members of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee in a Thursday hearing grilled the top leader of federal prisons on how the agency would address staffing shortages and reports of abuse of incarcerated people. “The Bureau (of Prisons) has been riddled with mismanagement and, sadly, with scandal,” said the chair of the committee, Illinois […]

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Ariana Figueroa

Maryville celebrates 150th anniversary today

3 years 2 months ago
ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. - Maryville University will celebrate its 150th anniversary Friday. The school was founded in 1872 as an academy for young women. Maryville also had strong ties to France. French was taught at all levels and students were encouraged to speak the language at all times. The school has since evolved into [...]
Monica Ryan

Overturned tractor-trailer closes multiple EB lanes of I-70 at Carrie

3 years 2 months ago
ST. LOUIS - Eastbound I-70 at Carrie was shut down for a time Friday morning due to a crash that caused a tractor-trailer to overturn. As of 6:05 a.m., one lane was getting through. The crash happened at about 5:50 a.m. It is unknown at this time how many vehicles were involved or what led [...]