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Paul McKee opened Zoom, a gas station and mini mart, and Greenleaf Market in 2019 as part of his NorthSide Regeneration plan, which promised to revitalize north St. Louis but ultimately failed to take off.

Fairmount Park Casino and Racing in Collinsville, Illinois has moved its live race post times to 2:30 p.m. for the remainder of the 2025 season, with the change designed to make weekday and weekend racing more accessible for fans and to align with national wagering windows.

The Police’s Andy Summers is taking his guitar on a global trek.Variety reports that Summers will star in a new eight-part docuseries, Global Guitar, that will have the Rock & Roll Hall of Famer traveling…

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ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. - Two men were sentenced to decades behind bars over a deadly fireworks explosion in north St. Louis County that killed four people. On Thursday, a judge sentenced Seneca Mahan and Terrell Cooks each to 25 years in prison after both pleaded guilty to felony charges in the explosion earlier this [...]

Several states, including Colorado, Massachusetts, New Mexico, New York and Pennsylvania, announced this week that they would be breaking with restrictive eligibility policies unveiled last week by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on the newly approved COVID-19 vaccines for the fall season. In New York, Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul signed an executive order Friday […]

O'FALLON, Mo. - The O'Fallon, Missouri, Police Department is asking residents to be on the lookout for a "dangerous dog at large." According to officials, a dark-colored Bull Terrier mix was involved in an attack on three people inside a home Friday morning, resulting in two being hospitalized with serious injuries. Officers avoided shooting the [...]

Bond Architects has announced that team member Breanna Kolk has received her architecture license. A graduate of the University of Kansas, Breanna Kolk has been working in the AEC industry for 6 years. Her diverse design experience includes the education, municipal, and government sectors. She has played an integral role in many of Bond Architects’ […]

The post Bond Architects’ Breanna Kolk Earned Her Architecture License appeared first on Construction Forum.

Executive Order 91 resumes under a strong legal framework the City’s issuance of minority/women-owned business enterprise certification.

Well, the RFK Jr. congressional hearing is now over. And, to the shock of very few thinking persons, it was a complete and total shitshow. I’m sure I will be writing something up on the hearing soon, but the short version is that Congress members on both sides of the aisle went in fairly directly […]

On our live show, David talks with Bryan McMahon and Dylan Gyauch-Lewis about the limits and hazards of the current state of artificial intelligence, and what politicians should do about it.

Dear Friend of Press Freedom,

For 164 days, Rümeysa Öztürk has faced deportation by the United States government for writing an op-ed it didn’t like, and for 83 days, Mario Guevara has been imprisoned for covering a protest. Read on for more, and click here to subscribe to our other newsletters.

Recording police is not ‘violence’

It was bad enough when government officials claimed that journalists are inciting violence by reporting. But now, they’re accusing reporters of actually committing violence.

The supposed violence by reporters? Recording videos. At least three times recently, a government official or lawyer has argued that simply recording law enforcement or Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers is a form of violence. Read more here.

Thanks for citing us, House Republicans. Now do something

Congressional Republicans introduced our farewell article to the former president, titled Biden’s press freedom legacy: Empty words and hypocrisy, into the record at a House Judiciary Committee hearing this week.

That’s great — it’s always nice to have our work recognized. But if these lawmakers agree with us that former President Joe Biden was bad on press freedom, someone should really tell them about this Donald Trump character who’s in office now. All the abuses we identified in the article Republicans cited have (as the article predicted) worsened under the new president, and he’s come up with plenty of new ones too.

We wrote a letter to let the committee know that if it’s serious about addressing the issues our article discussed, regardless of who is in office, we’re here to help. We’ll let you know if they reply (but don’t hold your breath). Read the letter here.

Will secret law prevail in drug boat massacre?

The Trump administration has not provided any legal justification for blowing up a boat carrying 11 alleged Venezuelan drug traffickers on the Caribbean Sea. We filed a Freedom of Information Act request to find out if lawyers at the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel were consulted before the slaughter and, if so, what they said.

If there is an OLC opinion about the targeting of the Venezuelan boat, the public and Congress should be able to debate it right now. Unfortunately, the government has long taken the position that OLC opinions should be secret, even though there should be no such thing as secret law in the United States. Read more here, and, if you want to learn more about government secrecy and what we’re doing to combat it, subscribe to The Classifieds.

Stop the judicial secrecy bill

An amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act would allow lawmakers to scrub information about themselves from the internet. The bill fails to achieve its stated purpose of keeping lawmakers safe — except from investigative journalism.

This week we helped lead a letter to senators from press freedom and civil liberties organizations objecting to the misguided legislation. Even if the NDAA amendment does not succeed, it’s likely that this bill will be back, and we’ll be ready to fight it. Read the letter here.

ICE revives contract for spyware

In 2023, Biden issued an executive order limiting government use of commercial spyware. Subsequently, the Biden administration issued a stop-work order on a $2 million contract between Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Paragon, a spyware vendor that makes products that have reportedly been used to spy on journalists.

It now appears ICE is reinstating this contract. Read more here and subscribe to our Digital Security Tips newsletter.

What we’re reading Inside Trump’s decade-long war on the press: 75,000 posts, 3,500 direct attacks Editor and Publisher

Trump’s anti-press rhetoric is “not bluster; it is not a personality trait. It is deliberate,” our U.S. Press Freedom Tracker’s Stephanie Sugars said. “It is very much at the cost of the strength of our social fabric and our shared reality.”

RSF and Avaaz launch international media operation RSF

Great work by our friends at Reporters Without Borders organizing this response to Israel’s slaughter of journalists in Gaza. It’s unfortunate that more U.S. outlets did not participate. If the outlets you support were not among the few, ask them why.

Illinois restores protections for press targeted with frivolous lawsuits The Dissenter

We spoke to The Dissenter about the Illinois Supreme Court’s ridiculous ruling that the state’s law against strategic lawsuits against public participation doesn’t protect reporting, and the recently passed bill to repair the damage.

He plagiarized and promoted falsehoods. The White House embraces him The New York Times

We talked to the Times about influencers replacing journalists at the White House. Yes, it’s awful that Trump won’t grant reporters the honor of getting lied to at press briefings. But the decimation of FOIA — a source of facts, not spin — is even more concerning.

Noem accuses CBS of ‘deceptively’ editing interview about Abrego Garcia The Hill

Kristi Noem’s complaints underscore why news outlets can’t settle frivolous lawsuits. Now, the door is wide open for government officials to question every editing decision news outlets make, whether to shorten an interview for time or to not air lies and nonsense.

Police body cameras are supposed to shed light. Rhode Island rules let officers keep footage in the dark Rhode Island Current

When rules restrict police body cameras from being used to provide transparency, the only use left for them is surveillance.

Judge Charles Wilson defends New York Times v. Sullivan Reason

A good recap of why “originalist” attacks on the actual malice standard — which limits defamation claims by public figures — are so disingenuous.

Today on TAP: The question isn’t whether our president is a bullshitter; it’s why so many people either believe or ignore his bullshit.

David Bowie was working on a new musical when he died in 2016, according to the BBC.Handwritten notes on the project, called The Spectator, were donated to the V&A Museum, along with the rest…

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MILLSTADT - Buttercup Ranch and Creamery has rescheduled its balloon glow. The glow, originally scheduled for Friday, Sept. 5, 2025, will now take place from 6:30–8:30 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 6, due to forecasted winds and rain. Tickets to the glow cost $20 per car. Scott Vignassi and The Big Little Big Band will still play as scheduled at 6 p.m. on Sept. 5. This is free to attend. The concert will be followed by the CiderMan Sprint Triathlon at 7 a.m. on Sept. 6. For more information about the triathlon, including how to participate, click here . A percentage of the proceeds from the balloon glow and triathlon will go to Millstadt’s first responders. “We want people to enjoy themselves,” added Mary MacKeen, who owns Buttercup Ranch and Creamery. “We’re excited.” For more information about the rescheduled balloon glow, click here .

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A student-led walkout and protests over gun violence are taking place Friday outside Central Visual and Performing Arts High School in St. Louis.

If you experience sudden, severe pain in the chest, back or shoulder, you might think heart attack. Alvise Bernabei, MD , an OSF HealthCare cardiothoracic surgeon, says a collapsed lung could also be the culprit. And he wants you to remember two main points: one, a collapsed lung is not as simple as a balloon deflating. And two, it’s a medical emergency. Get care right away. The basics Dr. Bernabei says a lung can collapse when air or fluid leaks into the space between the lung and the chest wall, preventing the lung from fully expanding. Smoking, being male, being tall and skinny and a family history of lung issues can make someone more likely to have the problem. And it can strike at young ages. Dr. Bernabei says he often sees the issue in people in their teens, 20s and 30s. He adds that pain associated with a collapsed lung (medical term: spontaneous pneumothorax) is usually toward the left or right sides of your chest. It also usually comes with shortness of breath and

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On the latest episode of the Politically Speaking Hour on St. Louis on the Air, STLPR's Jason Rosenbaum reports from Jefferson City on what could be a pivotal special session. Rosenbaum talks with House Minority Leader Ashley Aune about a proposed redraw of the state's congressional lines and Secretary of State Denny Hoskins about a proposal making it harder for ballot items to pass.