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St. Louis Holocaust museum, hit by Trump cuts, lands anonymous donation to continue work
St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum used the Institute of Museum and Library Services grant to digitize interviews with Holocaust survivors and American veterans who helped liberate concentration camps.
Construction on South Kingshighway?
smaller museums?
Any recommendations for a guy with curly hair to get a haircut?
Big Telecom, Robocallers, Love Brendan Carr’s Plan To Lobotomize The FCC
Last month Trump FCC boss Brendan Carr announced his “DELETE, DELETE, DELETE” initiative. It’s basically a plan to lobotomize FCC corporate oversight and consumer protection at the behest of industry giants, dressed up as very serious, very efficient adult policymaking. Carr’s trying to pretend this is a serious democratic process, so he opened a public […]
Multimillion-dollar makeover to begin on St. Louis County soccer fields destroyed by tornado
The tornado also destroyed an office building as well as 25 soccer goals and 10 benches. The damage is estimated to be more than $8 million.
Missouri Democrats filibuster GOP effort to overturn voter-approved paid sick leave
Missouri Democrats stonewalled a Republican effort to roll back a voter-approved paid sick leave law, blocking action in the Senate for more than nine hours before GOP leadership adjourned the chamber around 1 a.m. Thursday.
A bill sponsored by state Sen. Mike Bernskoetter, a Republican from Jefferson City, would gut Proposition A, a voter-approved law requiring most employers to provide paid sick time off for hundreds of thousands of qualifying workers starting May 1.
Bernskoetter said Proposition…
St. Louis Character: Liza Weiss started nonprofit to help the people she used to represent
The lawyer-turned-nonprofit leader talks about returning to St. Louis and founding her advocacy group, and a big accomplishment her organization had recently.
Cara Spencer Swearing-in and full inauguration speech
Fired first-grade teacher sues Archdiocese of St. Louis for breach of contract
Sharon Nicholas made $38,705 on the 10th step on the archdiocesan scale for teachers with a bachelor's degree.
Lightning strike heavily damages De Soto-area home
Any Easter Brunch reservations still available?
Wedded to charity: The Catholic sisters of St. Louis and their work in 1888
In 1888, a Post-Dispatch article highlighted the work of several of the Catholic orders in St. Louis:
Open Space STL does amazing things!
Push to put Christopher Dunn back in prison erodes confidence in Missouri justice system
The Missouri Supreme Court ruled this week that the state’s attorney general can appeal the overturned conviction of Christopher Dunn, a St. Louis man who spent more than three decades in prison for a 1990 murder he has always said he did not commit. Two different Missouri judges have now determined that he is actually […]
Push to put Christopher Dunn back in prison erodes confidence in Missouri justice system
The Missouri Supreme Court ruled this week that the state’s attorney general can appeal the overturned conviction of Christopher Dunn, a St. Louis man who spent more than three decades in prison for a 1990 murder he has always said he did not commit. Two different Missouri judges have now determined that he is actually […]
Thursday. April 17 - Jail reform advocate is "hopeful, but focused"
Janis Mensah is the former vice-chair of the St. Louis Detention Facilities Oversight Board, and is scheduled to go on trial next month for charges stemming from a 2023 arrest at the City Justice Center. Mensah says police beat them unconscious while waiting to see a detainee, but police say Mensah ignored orders and refused to leave.
Mensah spoke with STLPR’s Lacretia Wimbley about the need for greater transparency at the jail, where 19 detainees have died since 2020.
Missouri Democrats filibuster GOP effort to overturn voter-approved paid sick leave
Missouri Democrats stonewalled a Republican effort to roll back a voter-approved paid sick leave law, blocking action in the Senate for more than nine hours before GOP leadership adjourned the chamber around 1 a.m. Thursday. A bill sponsored by state Sen. Mike Bernskoetter, a Republican from Jefferson City, would gut Proposition A, a voter-approved law […]
Missouri Democrats filibuster GOP effort to overturn voter-approved paid sick leave
Missouri Democrats stonewalled a Republican effort to roll back a voter-approved paid sick leave law, blocking action in the Senate for more than nine hours before GOP leadership adjourned the chamber around 1 a.m. Thursday. A bill sponsored by state Sen. Mike Bernskoetter, a Republican from Jefferson City, would gut Proposition A, a voter-approved law […]
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