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Friday's cold, bitter temperatures will slow MoDOT's cleanup efforts

3 years 3 months ago
JEFFERSON CITY – As the winter storm covers areas of Missouri with up to a foot of snow, the Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT) urges drivers to be patient as crews continue to clear roads. The cold, bitter temperatures expected for Friday will slow down road clearing efforts as crews will have small routes to [...]
Elizabeth Barmeier

St. Louis Blues forward in running for NHL's fastest skater award

3 years 3 months ago
ST. LOUIS--Jordan Kyrou takes to the ice in Las Vegas this weekend for the first time as an All-Star, but the forward, in the middle of a breakout season with St. Louis during his fourth NHL campaign, will have something else on the line as well. Kyrou was announced Thursday as a contestant in the [...]
Gregg Palermo

Belleville Humane Society Aids Pets of Domestic Violence Survivors

3 years 3 months ago
The Belleville Area Humane Society has created a program aimed to help domestic violence survivors keep their pets. Domestic abuse survivors often delay leaving their abusive relationships — about 48 percent of them, according to the humane society's press release — because they don't want to leave their pets behind.…
Jenna Jones

Senator Wyden: EARN IT Will Make Children Less Safe

3 years 3 months ago

Earlier this week we wrote about the problematic reintroduction of the EARN IT Act and explained how it will make children a lot less safe -- exactly the opposite of what its backers claim. Senator Ron Wyden has now put out a statement that succinctly explains the problems of EARN IT, and exactly how it will do incredible harm to the very children it pretends to protect:

“This sadly misguided bill will not protect children. It will not stop the spread of vile child exploitation material or target the monsters that produce it. And it does not spend a single dollar to invest in prevention services for vulnerable children and youth or help victims and their families by providing evidence-based and trauma-informed resources. Instead, the EARN IT Act threatens the privacy and security of law-abiding Americans by targeting any form of private, secure devices and communication. As a result, the bill will make it easier for predators to track and spy on children and also harm the free speech and free expression of vulnerable groups,” Wyden said. “I have spent my career in the Senate fighting to protect kids and aid victims of abuse, and I will do everything in my power to ensure every single monster responsible for exploiting children or spreading horrific CSAM materials is prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. But this bill does nothing to turn around the Justice Department’s tragic failure to prioritize child welfare and abuse cases.”

As Wyden notes, he introduced a bill that would put $5 billion towards actually fighting child sexual abuse, but for whatever reason that bill is going nowhere, while EARN IT is on the fast track.

Only one of those bills (Wyden's) actually moves us towards really fighting against child sexual exploitation. The other one grandstands and makes children less safe because it fails to understand technology or the law. Yet which one is Congress gearing up to support?

Mike Masnick

Multiple crashes close I-70 near St. Louis for hours

3 years 3 months ago
ST. LOUIS, Mo. - The Missouri Department of Transportation and the National Guard have been helping to clear an accident that shut down one of the main routes through the state for hours. It appears that several semi-trucks were involved in an accident at around 11:30 a.m. in the area and are stuck on and [...]
Joe Millitzer