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Alderwoman Cara Spencer for the month ended Feb. 20 raised and spent far more than her biggest opponent in the St. Louis mayoral race, incumbent Tishaura Jones.

A Missouri state representative fears that texts sent to 988 suicide crisis lifeline are not going to a real person. 

The frigid weather impacts many industries, but one that’s hit particularly hard is construction. Between snow and brutal temperatures, it’s been a slow-go for home construction crews, but this warmup means work can resume.

A dispute over whether the Missouri Gaming Commission can issue emergency rules to implement sports wagering will delay the licensing of casinos and online operators until fall, the executive director of the Missouri Gaming Commission said Monday. Last week, Missouri Secretary of State Denny Hoskins rejected the gaming commission emergency rules intended to allow it to accept license applications. The notice to the gaming commission did not specify why the rule was rejected. “The only answer…

The closing announcement listed a variety of issues the owners said they have experienced in recent years.

You might recall Buzzfeed CEO Jonah Peretti as the guy who gutted Buzzfeed’s talented news division and fired oodles of human beings back in 2023. As part of that transition, Peretti heavily embraced half cooked ‘AI’ technology in the form of generative and interactive AI chatbots he insisted would dramatically boost the site’s traffic and […]

Members of the Missouri Legislature’s new Equality Caucus are blasting a St. Louis-area state senator for her support of a recent vote regarding with marriage between a man and a woman.

Here's a chart showing airline fatalities over the past century. In 1980, at about the same time that commercial airlines began hiring Black and women pilots, fatalities began a 30-year decline to zero: This is not a smoking gun. Fatalities likely went down for reasons of their own that were unrelated to civil-rights era hiring ...continue reading "Diversity in the air: Don’t worry, everything is fine"

A page has turned at the St. Louis County Animal Shelter in Olivette, which is newly named the St. Louis County Animal Care and Control Adoption Center.

Hundreds of high school students across the St. Louis area are coming together to take a stand against youth violence, inspired by the tragic loss of a beloved classmate.

Join us Monday, Feb. 24, at 5:30 p.m., for the Coral Courts Lecture with Janette Kim. Kim is an associate professor at California College of the Arts, where she co-directs […]

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Customers across the United States are looking to send a message Friday to companies that have rolled back their DEI initiatives in the form of a 24-hour consumer boycott, also known as the “Feb. 28 Economic Blackout.” 

Big changes are underway at the St. Louis County Animal Care and Control Adoption Center.