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Monday, Dec. 8 - A bid to feed communities

4 months 3 weeks ago
The nonprofit organization Feeding America was looking for a better way to distribute billions of pounds of food to food banks each year. It used to use an algorithm to answer that question. It generated a list of food banks based on need, and when a shipment came up, Feeding America called the food bank at the top of the list. But what if a food bank didn’t need or want that donation? The answer to that problem is a market economy, of sorts.

Cold start to the workweek, brief warmup for Tuesday

4 months 3 weeks ago
ST. LOUIS — It's a cold start Monday morning with clouds still in place overhead. Clouds should gradually decrease Monday but temperatures will stay in the low to mid-30s. Temperatures swing upward for Tuesday with highs climbing into the 50s. Two cold fronts come through Tuesday night through Friday. The first cold front will bring [...]
Jaime Travers

Missouri AG pushes suit that could make abortions and miscarriages more dangerous

4 months 3 weeks ago
Before the U.S. Supreme Court recognized the right to an abortion in Roe v. Wade, a lot of women and girls died trying to end their pregnancies themselves. How many is impossible to know. Since our current court overturned Roe, women are once again dying, as ProPublica has reported. But not in numbers anywhere near […]
Bridgette Dunlap