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Messenger: Horse owner targets Missouri veterinary board. 'Like a shadow government.'
“I wasn’t just dismissed by the vet. I was dismissed by the system that’s supposed to hold professionals accountable."
What is up with our air quality the past couple days?
Pick your own veggies?
St. Louis leaders investigating double payments to ex-comptroller
Mayor Cara Spencer is investigating the situation after former Comptroller Darlene Green was reportedly receiving both a paycheck and a pension check from the City of Saint Louis.
Think I got it this time
Trump Infrastructure Bill Revamp To Net Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk Billions In New Subsidies For Broadband They Can’t Really Deliver
There’s $42.5 billion in broadband grants are headed to the states thanks to the 2021 infrastructure bill most Republicans voted against (yet routinely try to take credit for among their constituents). But Republicans, despite a supposed feud between Trump and Elon Musk, have been rewriting the grant program’s guidance to eliminate provisions ensuring the resulting […]
Francis Howell School District paid out a conservative consultant hired behind its back
St. Louis tourism officials want meeting-goers to see what lies beyond the convention halls
Kid is in bad shape, skate wreck down a ravine found DAYS later
Federal cuts to Medicaid, food aid will make low-income seniors in Missouri more vulnerable
Dr. Marvin Singleton, a Republican who spent 13 years as a Missouri state senator, worries about many of the policies he sees coming out of Washington D.C. these days. Of course, the retired ear, nose and throat doctor is concerned about federal cuts to Medicaid spending, which could leave millions of Americans without insurance and […]
Sultan: Choosing not to resuscitate and a jar of crepe myrtles
I’ve written quite a bit about my father’s decline because it’s been such a shock for me. He went from a "young-old" man in his mid-to-late 70s to unrecognizably frail and dependent so much quicker than I ever expected.
New to St. Louis: STL 101
Woman injured in shooting in west St. Louis
A woman was shot in the abdomen in west St. Louis on Wednesday and was taken to a nearby hospital in critical but stable condition.
All Missouri metro areas saw unemployment increases in June
All eight of Missouri’s metropolitan areas experienced higher unemployment rates in June than a month before, according to new data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics that is not seasonally adjusted. n comparison to a year earlier, the jobless rate also increased in all of those metro areas. St. Joseph had the highest unemployment rate […]
Friday, August 1 - Fighting for Sumner High
Sumner is the first high school west of the Mississippi River to graduate Black students. This year is its 150th anniversary. At a recent celebration, alumni say Sumner is here to stay and will fight to keep it open.
Friday, August 1 - Fighting for Sumner High
Sumner is the first high school west of the Mississippi River to graduate Black students. This year is its 150th anniversary. At a recent celebration, alumni say Sumner is here to stay and will fight to keep it open.
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Josh Hawley’s newest populist economic proposal is downright irresponsible
Recently, Missouri’s senior senator introduced the American Worker Rebate Act which promises “at least” $600 per adult and dependent child funded by revenue from President Donald Trump’s new tariffs. The proposed legislation represents a dangerous fiscal misstep that threatens to worsen inflation while squandering a rare opportunity to address America’s mounting debt crisis. Hawley’s proposal […]
Kairos Academies charter in St. Louis on track to get off financial probation
Kairos' revenues have exceeded expenditures and bills have been paid on time since the probation from the school's sponsor started in April.
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