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Advocates call for expanding free school meals at U.S. Senate hearing

9 months 3 weeks ago
WASHINGTON — Amid persistent child hunger and food insecurity in the United States, lawmakers and advocates on Wednesday stressed the importance of school meal programs during a U.S. Senate Agriculture subcommittee hearing. Hunger severely impacts kids’ emotional and physical well-being and can lead to negative outcomes in school, research has shown. Last year, 47.4 million people lived in food-insecure households, […]
Shauneen Miranda

Large Ladue home destroyed after overnight fire

9 months 3 weeks ago
LADUE, Mo. - A large house was burned down after a fire broke out in Ladue overnight Thursday. The fire happened just before 2 a.m. on a private road off Warson Road early Thursday morning. Fox 2's Bommarito Automotive Group Skyfox flew over the remains of what was left at the home in Ladue. The [...]
Nick Gladney

Congress Poised To Bring Back Unfettered Patent Trolling

9 months 3 weeks ago
Have you been missing patent trolls destroying innovation and making products you like more expensive? Have you felt that, maybe, some lawyers who did nothing but send extortionate shakedown letters weren’t getting rich enough? Well then, good news for you, Congress is looking to bring all that back! In the early years of Techdirt, we […]
Mike Masnick