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Garmin Smart Watch Users Pissed As Company Opens The Door To Paywall Enshittification

1 year ago
In recent years the Garmin line of smartwatches had an advantage over an increasingly crowded smart watch field. Unlike Google/FitBit, they were avoiding hiding a lot of features behind annoying subscription paywalls. Looking to goose quarterly earnings and give investors that impossible, sweet, perpetual growth they crave, Fitbit has been increasingly putting more and more […]
Karl Bode

Missouri cannabis regulators find another 6K products that should have been recalled in 2023

1 year ago
In Missouri’s massive marijuana recall two years ago, regulators pulled 62,000 products off the shelves that contained a THC concentrate the state deemed a “potential threat to health and safety.” Last week, the Missouri Division of Cannabis Regulation added another 6,000 products to that list that should have been pulled in 2023 because they were all made with an ingredient produced by the company at the heart of the recall, Robertsville-based Delta Extraction. The new “threats” were…
Rebecca Rivas

1 dead, 4 injured after shooting in north St. Louis

1 year ago
ST. LOUIS - A man was left dead and four others were injured late Sunday night after a shooting at Fairground Park in north St. Louis. According to the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department (SLMPD), the shooting occurred at Fairground Park around 11:40 p.m. in north St. Louis' Fairgrounds neighborhood. Police described the scene as [...]
Chris Regnier

Monday, April 14 - How Downtown can get its groove back

1 year ago
St. Louis’ reputation was rattled a year ago when the Wall Street Journal described the region’s downtown as a ‘real estate nightmare.’ A year later, the city has made strides, starting by tackling two prominent vacant properties. But St. Louis Public Radio’s Eric Schmid reports a full rebound will take many more years of sustained effort by civic and business leaders across the region and state.

Missouri Republicans do nothing as Trump steals our funds and tanks the economy

1 year ago
U.S. Sen. Eric Schmitt is confused about what his job is — or unwilling to do it. Asked recently about the Trump Administration impounding $8.5 million of Title X funds granted to the Missouri Family Health Council to provide contraception, cancer screenings and STI testing at 52 clinics across the state, Schmitt sought to downplay […]
Bridgette Dunlap