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St. Louis City Officials Oppose 'Poorly Written' Proposition R

3 years 3 months ago
St. Louis Board of Aldermen President Lewis Reed doesn’t keep his disapproval of Proposition R quiet. In a press conference Monday, Reed slammed the proposition that would change the city’s process for redrawing wards if approved by voters tomorrow.
Monica Obradovic

Notorious Human Rights Abuser Is One Of NSO Group’s Main Investors

3 years 3 months ago
It’s more difficult to choose your investors than your customers. Maybe this isn’t entirely NSO’s fault, but it certainly helped make it easier to sell powerful zero-click exploits to the governments most likely to abuse them. Here’s Kaye Wiggins and Mehul Srivastava for the Financial Times. An Abu Dhabi state-owned investment company has been an […]
Tim Cushing

The Great Resignation was neither great nor a resignation

3 years 3 months ago
Remember the Great Resignation? Fed economist Bart Hobijn says there's nothing to it: The labor market recovery since the depth of the COVID-19 pandemic in the spring of 2020 has been the fastest in postwar history....At the same time, the share of workers quitting their jobs—either to take new jobs or to exit the labor ...continue reading "The Great Resignation was neither great nor a resignation"
Kevin Drum

One caveat to St. Louis’ lower murder rates

3 years 3 months ago
An investigation by ProPublica and APM Reports and St. Louis Public Radio revealed that officials were lowering St. Louis' murder count by classifying some killings as justifiable homicides instead. The report's co-author, investigative reporter Jeremy Kohler, shares the details.