The Trump FCC spent four years being a giant rubber stamp for giant U.S. telecom monopolies. That included rubber stamping mergers before even reading the details, gutting FCC consumer protection authority, and demolishing decades-old media consolidation rules crafted with broad bipartisan consensus, and stripping away your town and city’s ability to stand up to giant carriers. The Trump GOP […]
Over the weekend, CBS News and Harper’s Bazaar published stories in praise of the Regional Logistics Center, a partnership between Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region and the Hope Clinic For Women, that helps patients across the Midwest have access to abortions. The idea for the Regional Logistics Center was born out of necessity. In May 2019, the last remaining abortion clinic in Missouri, St. Louis’ Planned Parenthood, nearly closed.
Illinois is sitting on a pile of extra money from the federal government but is not using it to help address gun violence, which the governor has declared a public health crisis.
Gallery photos may be purchased for personal use at: https://www.randymanning.com/Kentucky-Derby-at-Macs ALTON - As expected, Mac's Derby Day Party on Saturday attracted thousands of race fans to 315 Belle St. in Alton on Saturday. Rich Strike was the Derby surprise winner. The Block Party Concert that featured The Fabulous Thunderbirds Saturday night was also a big hit with the famous rock band. Tom Tojo of Eureka, Mo., said Mac's Derby Day Party is fantastic and is the next best thing to being at the Derby. He said he has also gone to the Derby three times. "The party here at Mac's has all the pomp and circumstance of the Derby." "It is a blast here and I love it here," he said. "Everybody is here to have fun. I think we will come back next year if we don't go to the Derby itself." Jerry and Janet Husgen of West County St. Louis said they come to Mac's Derby Day event every year. The couple said they love to watch the horses, but also the people at Mac's Party, especially
The St. Louis region is packed with parks, trails, and other family-friendly destinations that are perfect for children to pedal, push, and scoot around in all summer long.
Over 90% of the $680 million in federal National Institutes of Health grants issued to St. Louis applicants last year went to Washington University. The leader of the university's medical school says new investments are expected to significantly boost its NIH totals in coming years.
Ameren is planning to raze 5207 Loughborough in the Princeton Heights neighborhood. The company acquired the properties 5207, 5211, 5215 Loughborough in 2019, boarded them up, and submitted demolition permit applications in August of 2020. The electric utility has a substation on the triangular-shaped parcel formed by alleys and Macklind Avenue to the north. The […]
Missouri lawmakers enter the final week of the legislative session Monday with a laundry list of unfinished business and long-simmering tensions threatening to derail any hope of progress. After finishing work on the largest state budget in Missouri history last week, GOP super majorities in the House and Senate hope to begin ticking through election-year […]
When I was raped in 2016, one of my attackers reached inside me and pulled out my NuvaRring, an internal birth control device, and asked me what it was. When I told him, he cast it aside where it was lost until police retrieved it a couple days later. Following my attack, because of the […]
ST. LOUIS - Controversial former broadcaster Bob Romanik died at his Belleville, Illinois home on Saturday. The 72-year-old was in hospice care. He called himself "the grim reaper of radio," and was criticized for making racist and homophobic comments on his radio show. The FCC later revoked the licenses of four stations. Romanik was also a former police [...]
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