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Streaming TV Prices Rising Faster Than Cable Ever Did

1 month 2 weeks ago
Now that streaming subscriber growth has slowed, we’ve noted repeatedly how the streaming TV sector is falling into all of the bad habits that ultimately doomed traditional cable TV. That has involved chasing pointless “growth for growth’s sake” megamergers, imposing bottomless price hikes and new annoying restrictions on customers, undermining labor, and cutting corners on product quality in a […]
Karl Bode

Magnitude 2.1 quake recorded near Carbondale, Illinois

1 month 2 weeks ago
CRAINVILLE, Ill. -- A small earthquake struck near Crainville early Monday morning causing no immediate reports of damage. The town is located around nine miles east of Carbondale. The U.S. Geological Survey reported a magnitude 2.1 earthquake at 6:48 a.m. CDT on Sept. 14. The quake's epicenter was about 0.7 miles northeast of Crainville, 3.5 [...]
Joe Millitzer

Wak’a Garden

1 month 2 weeks ago

Begin Again: Wak'a Garden is the second installment in Laumeier’s Begin Again series, honoring the Park’s 50-year history of collaborating with artists and supporting new commissions and exhibitions. The organic, amphitheater-shaped sculpture, built […]

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Myranda Levins

Child killed, 2 injured in single-vehicle crash in Wentzville

1 month 2 weeks ago
ST. CHARLES COUNTY, Mo. - A child was killed and two other people, including a toddler, were injured in a single-vehicle crash Sunday evening on Interstate 64 in Wentzville. According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol (MSHP), the crash occurred around 7 p.m. on westbound I-64 near I-70. It involved a Dodge Grand Caravan. The [...]
Nick Gladney

Lawsuit seeks $80 million from Denny Hoskins over Missouri congressional map referendum

1 month 2 weeks ago
Five Missouri voters are seeking roughly $80 million from Secretary of State Denny Hoskins in a proposed class-action lawsuit alleging he violated state law in his handling of a referendum challenging Missouri’s gerrymandered congressional map. The lawsuit, filed Friday in Cole County Circuit Court, asks a judge to allow the plaintiffs to represent approximately 162,000 […]
Jason Hancock

Missouri’s long fight over who gets the last word

1 month 2 weeks ago
Fourteen Republican lawmakers sent the Missouri Supreme Court a letter last week. It was not a fan letter. Hold Secretary of State Denny Hoskins in contempt, they wrote, and we may come for your jobs. The court held him in contempt the next day. Hoskins had told local election officials to use a gerrymandered congressional […]
Jason Hancock

Missouri governor names 18 to child welfare task force amid growing scrutiny

1 month 2 weeks ago
With Missouri’s child welfare system under fire over foster care deaths, staff turnover and mounting investigation backlogs, Gov. Mike Kehoe has named 18 people to a new task force charged with developing common standards for how courts, caseworkers and others across the state assess a child’s safety. The Missouri Child Welfare Task Force will bring […]
Jason Hancock