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Group hopes to amend Missouri constitution to enact ranked-choice voting

4 years 7 months ago

An effort to do away with partisan primaries in Missouri and replace them with a “ranked choice” method got a big boost last week, receiving roughly $670,000 from a Virginia-based nonprofit hoping to put the idea on the 2022 statewide ballot. A group called Better Elections is pushing an initiative petition that would amend Missouri’s […]

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Jason Hancock

I truly can’t wait to see all your decorations around the neighborhood!

4 years 7 months ago

I don’t decorate for the holidays. There. I said it.  I know it’s the most wonderful time of the year and it’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas and all, but when it comes to my own decorations, I’m admittedly kind of a Scrooge.  Let’s get a few things out of the way first: [...]

The post I truly can’t wait to see all your decorations around the neighborhood! appeared first on Lafayette Square.

Becky Zerman

Amid debate over sheltered workshops, Missouri pays people with disabilities less

4 years 7 months ago

This story was originally published by The Kansas City Beacon. A new Missouri law allowing employers to continue paying some people with disabilities less than minimum wage has positioned the state at the forefront of a national debate over disability rights in the workplace. Part of a wide-ranging piece of legislation signed by Gov. Mike Parson in […]

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Madison Hopkins

Fire destroys pallet manufacturer, recycling company in East St. Louis

4 years 7 months ago
Investigators are looking into an early Sunday morning fire in East St. Louis that destroyed a pallet manufacturer and recycling company. The fire was reported about 4:30 a.m. in the 2000 block of East Broadway. The blaze significantly damaged a company known as Ongweoweh Supply Chain Solutions. Fire chief Jason Blackmon said investigators do not yet know the cause. “Not at this particular time," said Blackmon, at about 10:30 Sunday morning. "It’s a pallet yard and a lot of pallets and a lot…
Alex Fees, KSDK