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Enterprise Center launches premium membership program

11 months ago
The Enterprise Center in St. Louis has launched a new guest experience program offering members exclusive benefits and access to popular events, with memberships available in two tiers: Gold for $1500 and Silver for $750.
Nick Gladney

Republicans Take A Hatchet To What’s Left Of U.S. Public Broadcasting, PBS Emergency Alerts

11 months ago
Authoritarian assholes really don’t like public broadcasting. They don’t like it because, in its ideal form, it untethers journalism from the often perverse financial incentives inherent in our consolidated, billionaire-owned, ad-engagement based corporate media. If we bolstered real independent media or public broadcasting, you might see journalism more interested in telling people the truth and challenging wealth and […]
Karl Bode

‘One big, beautiful’ law provision on Planned Parenthood funding partly blocked by judge

11 months ago
This report has been updated. WASHINGTON — A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction Monday, blocking a provision in Republicans’ “big, beautiful” law that would have barred Medicaid funding from going to Planned Parenthood for one year. District Court Judge Indira Talwani wrote in a 36-page opinion that Planned Parenthood established “a substantial likelihood of success […]
Jennifer Shutt

Tuesday, July 22 - Stuck in limbo waiting to call STL home

11 months ago
Nashat Aljerwan and his family have lived at Za'atari Refugee Camp in Jordan for 12 years. But in 2023, a path to resettlement opened that would have allowed them to come to St. Louis. That path quickly closed. In the wake of President Trump’s January executive order to suspend all refugee resettlement, the Aljerwan family became one amongn thousands already vetted, approved, and in limbo.

Missouri cannabis testing director details new random product sampling 

11 months ago
The head of Missouri’s cannabis testing unit said the new unannounced visits to collect product samples shouldn’t impact business, in a podcast by the Missouri Cannabis Regulation Division. “This is going to be just another arm of compliance, guys,” said Ryan Bernard, the division’s testing and research unit manager. “So keep this business as usual […]
Rebecca Rivas