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On the latest episode of Politically Speaking, Missouri state Rep. Ray Reed talks about why his bill to require federal agents to identify themselves and not wear masks is needed. While the chances of that bill passing in the GOP controlled legislature are small, Reed said it’s important to take a stand. “Everyone knows that Democrats have an uphill battle in Jefferson City, but that does not mean we don't continue to fight the good fight while we're there, using all the power we have,” Reed said.

Earlier in January, The Doors drummer John Densmore and Public Enemy rapper Chuck D announced a collaborative project called doPE, a portmanteau of their respective band names. If you're a…

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MONDAY, JANUARY 26 PLAY IT AGAIN SPORTS SCOREBOARD GIRLS BASKETBALL 51st Carrollton Lady Hawk Invitational tournament - all games postponed, tournament reset back a day. NCAA MEN'S BASKETBALL BIG TEN CONFERENCE Ohio State Buckeyes 84. Penn State Nittany Lions 78 NCAA WOMEN'S BASKETBALL BIG TEN CONFERENCE Washington Huskies 76, Rutgers Scarlet Knights 48 SOUTHEASTERN CONFERENCE LSU Tigers 89, Florida Gators 60 Tennessee Lady Volunteers at Mississippi Rebels --- postponed,

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St. Louis Downtown Airport (KCPS), a general aviation airport in St. Clair County, Illinois, reported continued tenant investment and infrastructure activity in 2025, alongside ongoing workforce development efforts tied to the region’s aviation and aerospace sector. Several tenant investments during the year complemented the airport’s own capital program. Among the most recent is a new […]

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CAHOKIA HEIGHTS – Attorney General Kwame Raoul announced the entry of an agreed consent decree to resolve a lawsuit his office filed with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (IEPA) to address chronic failures of the sanitary sewer systems in Cahokia Heights. Raoul and the DOJ filed the lawsuit in 2024 claiming that since November 2019, aging infrastructure and years of poor maintenance an

KANSAS CITY — After 10 days of often emotion-filled testimony, a trial dissecting Missouri’s abortion regulations under the new constitutional right to reproductive health care concluded Monday. In closing arguments, attorneys from both the Missouri Attorney General’s Office and Planned…

JERSEYVILLE – Wock Lake in Jerseyville will soon look slightly different as a narrow “horseshoe” land mass at the site is set to be removed starting next month. Jerseyville City Council members unanimously approved the notice of a bid award for “Wock Lake earthwork, dredging, and related improvements” at last week’s meeting on Jan. 20, 2026. Mayor Kevin Stork said this dredging work would include clearing out the narrow “horseshoe” land mass whic

Austin L. Mullins, 22, admitted fatally shooting Jacob Wall, 23, of Wood River, at a party in Wood River in 2023, authorities said.

The murders of Alex Pretti and Renee Good in Minnesota once again show the power of cellphone footage in combating official lies. Solely because footage was so clear that even the Trump administration knew its story wasn’t credible, the party line shifted within hours of Pretti’s shooting from comments about a “terrorist” planning a “massacre” to something akin to “jaywalking is now a capital offense.”

These days, cellphone videographers are also a vital part of the news ecosystem, serving as crucial source material for reporters who can’t be everywhere at once. That means shooting, killing, censoring, and other targeting of individuals documenting news as it unfolds is an attack on press freedom (and an offense against all else that’s good in the world).

It doesn’t matter if they’re journalists. Recording police or Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents is an act of journalism, no matter who does it. If those recording are not journalists themselves, their relationship with the press is symbiotic. They’re journalists’ sources — even whistleblowers.

Decades ago, the way to blow the whistle on government misconduct was to leak documents like the Pentagon Papers. Those methods are still vital, of course. That’s why the administration is trying so hard to stop them. But footage is just as powerful, maybe more so.

And the courage of those recording in the street rivals that of people like Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg and National Security Agency surveillance whistleblower Ed Snowden, both longtime board members of Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF). The latter group risked life behind bars, but the former risk being assaulted or shot dead by federal agents.

Cellphone footage also poses a more ubiquitous threat to the powerful than leaked documents. Only government contractors and employees have the ability to leak documents — virtually everyone has a cellphone. And that’s exactly why the government is cracking down on cellphone videographers with the same tactics it has long used against old-school whistleblowers.

The government is cracking down on cellphone videographers with the same tactics it has long used against old-school whistleblowers.

Whenever someone leaks government secrets to the press, no matter who is in the White House, the same pattern almost invariably plays out. Important-sounding people in suits and military uniforms pop up on the Sunday shows and op-ed pages warning about the dire threat to national security posed by the disclosures, which never materializes. Government spokespeople and their stenographers in the media nitpick at the leakers’ personal lives, question their motives, and call them traitors. What they actually revealed about government corruption and incompetence gets buried beneath the fearmongering and name-calling.

Similarly, the government now characterizes cellphone recording as obstructive or even violent. Officials claim agents are being “doxxed” when someone records their face or reveals their name, and complain about wildly exaggerated or entirely fabricated dangers they’re facing. ICE-watchers are accused of being part of some amorphous domestic terror conspiracy — their names might even be populating a government domestic terror watch list, according to some agents.

Their phones are often unlawfully seized or damaged before they can post their footage on social media, where journalists might find and report on it. A lawsuit seeking to force the federal government to preserve evidence from Pretti’s killing claims that federal agents “apparently seized cell phones and detained witnesses,” tactics that can both intimidate those who film and prevent their footage from seeing the light of day, just like newsroom raids intimidate and censor journalists and sources.

This didn’t start with Trump 2.0, of course, and, for whatever reason, the Twin Cities have been at the center of the story for years. Darnella Frazier didn’t have a press credential around her neck when she recorded Derek Chauvin kneeling on George Floyd’s neck. When Philando Castile was shot during a traffic stop in 2016, Diamond Reynolds’ livestreamed footage captured a killing that would otherwise have been framed as justified.

Thousands of miles away, cellphone footage was crucial in exposing Israel’s crimes in Gaza. Palestinians, many with no prior journalistic training, took unfathomable risks to ensure that Israeli officials could not get away with the same kinds of lies and pretexts that U.S. officials now spew after killings of civilians (just replace “Hamas” with “the worst of the worst”).

One of this year’s Oscar nominees for best documentary is “The Alabama Solution,” which highlights reforms prompted by incarcerated people — including Robert Earl Council, Melvin Ray, and Raoul Poole — using contraband cellphones to document abuses. They risked and endured severe retaliation (they heard about the Oscar nomination from solitary confinement) to expose the truth because the press doesn’t cover prisons like it should. That’s both due to news companies not seeing any money in it and the government drastically restricting access.

As corporate and government pressures against accountability journalism continue to mount, the outside world might be similarly dependent on its Councils, Rays, and Pooles to expose the truth. Horrors like Pretti’s murder are tragic losses not only to the victims’ families and communities but to what’s left of the free press in the United States.

Correction: This post has been revised to reflect that Edward Snowden was not a founding board member of FPF.

Every year, it’s always fun to see the connection that players in the Super Bowl have to the area. This year, there will be three former Mizzou players in the big game. 

A new cover of Van Halen’s classic track “Jump” is featured in Coca-Cola's ad campaign leading up to the 2026 FIFA World Cup.The new take on the song features blink-182…

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A Warrenton man was arrested last week for crashing a stolen van into a business and attempting to steal beer.