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The cabin holds a rich history: It was owned by one of Des Peres' founding families and was likely the first site of permanent European settlement in the area.

NPR is imposing a new round of buyouts and layoffs as it tries to survive the brutal Trump GOP attacks on public broadcasting. According to NPR, it’s being forced to trim $8 million of its $300-million annual budget because of the illegal (for whatever that word is worth any more) Trump administration attacks on NPR, […]

People in St. Louis will get their first chance to weigh in on how the city should spend $230 million in Rams settlement money Tuesday.

STL PoliticClips' Joshua Lawrence makes the case that the city's Water Division deserves a larger share of the Rams Settlement Fund.

Begin Again: Wak'a Garden is the second installment in Laumeier’s Begin Again series, honoring the Park’s 50-year history of collaborating with artists and supporting new commissions and exhibitions. The organic, amphitheater-shaped sculpture, built […]

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Begin Again: 50 Years and Counting marks Laumeier’s 50th anniversary by celebrating five decades of artist commissions and exhibitions. Featuring hundreds of artists and rarely seen works from Laumeier’s collection, […]

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More tornado-damaged buildings are scheduled to come down Tuesday in north St. Louis, continuing the city’s push to clear dangerous structures left behind after last year’s EF-3 tornado.

If you're going to make something that takes effort, take the effort to make it right.

A Pacific teenager was killed in a single-vehicle accident on Memorial Day.

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First-time homebuyers in St. Louis could receive up to $50,000 in forgivable loan assistance under a relaunched city program funded with federal pandemic relief dollars.

Missouri lawmakers spent part of this year’s legislative session arguing that the state should steer low-income families away from buying candy, soda and desserts with public benefits. Then they passed a budget that eliminates $2 million for a program designed to help those same families buy more fruits and vegetables. Double Up Food Bucks, run […]

Bayer has agreed to suspend for seven years pillars of its loyalty programs, which Trump administration officials called “unfair provisions” that “pose a danger to competition,” the U.S. Department of Justice announced Wednesday. The agreement relates to how Bayer sells the seeds it produces through years of research and development. Bayer sells corn and soybean […]

With apologies to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, a recent article in The Beacon about Kansas City Public Schools potentially converting the long-vacant Bryant School into subsidized teacher housing had me thinking, “How has local government failed us? Let me count the ways” The Beacon story is ostensibly about teacher housing and the conversion of a long-unused […]

Juan Baltazar is one of five people who died during last year’s May 16 tornado. He was known in the St. Louis community for his warm personality – and his wood-roasted corn. As St. Louis Public Radio’s Andrea Henderson reports, Baltazar’s loved ones say his untimely death has been difficult for the family to grasp.

Clouds have taken over our skies, but rain is going to struggle a bit as it tries to move north out of Kentucky and Tennessee Tuesday. That’s thanks to an area of high pressure to our north.

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