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Cori Bush (Nov. 2021)

3 years 5 months ago
Congresswoman Cori Bush talks with St. Louis Public Radio's Jason Rosenbaum about why she voted against a federal infrastructure bill — and what the future holds for a broader spending plan known as the Build Back Better proposal.

Jade Sinclair looks back at 25 years in drag

3 years 5 months ago
In our metro’s cutthroat drag scene, the prolific Jade Sinclair’s persona is akin to Glinda the Good Witch. The longtime show director and former Miss Gay Missouri America floats above the ubiquitous shade throwing, and rarely if ever seems bothered by life’s unpleasantries—like when she emerged from her dressing room to find the venue had just been robbed, then glided past the patrons rising from the floor to order her favorite shot, a Grape Bomb.
Chris Andoe

St. Louis Is, in Fact, the Best Doughnut City in the Country

3 years 5 months ago


If you've ever rounded the bend of Chippewa Street near Landsdowne only to jump for joy at the sight of Donut Drive-In's neon sign, wandered into Florissant's Old Town Donuts at just the moment the apple fritters are being pulled from the oven or been hurried along by former Wold's Fair Donuts matriarch Peggy, in all of her blue eye-shadowed glory, you know one thing: St. Louis is the doughnut capital of the United States. Possibly the world.…
Cheryl Baehr

Struggling to find workers? Here’s why investing in automation can help future-proof your business

3 years 5 months ago
Media organizations have been sounding the alarm about persistent labor shortages and the negative effects those shortages are having on business. A recent report from Yale University economists said the COVID-19 pandemic has created several factors that are limiting workforce participation. These include an inability to secure child care, early retirements from workers in the Baby Boom generation, fears about COVID-19 in the workplace and a general reappraisal of what workers want to do with their…
Clay Shackelford

FBI Says St. Louis Serial Killer Connected to at Least Six Deaths Since September

3 years 5 months ago

Multiple fatal shootings, including one that claimed the life of a sixteen-year-old girl, have been linked to a 25-year-old man who is now facing a bevy of charges in St. Louis and St. Louis County.

Arrested Saturday by an FBI task force, Perez Reed has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder, three counts of armed criminal action and another count of assault in St. Louis County; in the City of St. Louis, police are applying for two additional murder charges.…
Danny Wicentowski