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Running from April 11, 2024, to Jan. 12, 2025 at the World Chess Hall of Fame, Clash for the Crown explores the histories of the World Chess Championship and the […]

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Missouri voters, here's what you should know before heading to the polls on Nov. 5.

CHICAGO - Today is the kickoff for Open Enrollment on the Get Covered Illinois Health Insurance Marketplace, with 11 health insurance companies offering plans. Illinoisans can enroll through January 15th. "The Get Covered Illinois Marketplace has a total of 347 health plans offered throughout the state this year,” said IDOI Director Ann Gillespie. “So, we want every Illinoisan in need of health insurance coverage to know that quality, affordable, coverage is available. Our Get Covered Illinois Navigators are certified and trained to help you choose the right plan for your needs, walk you through the enrollment process, and find out if you qualify for financial assistance. Just visit GetCoveredIllinois.gov ." The Illinois Department of Insurance also released health insurance rates for the 2025 Plan Year. Plan availability and rates will vary based on where a consumer lives. In some areas of the state, consumers will see a decrease in health insurance premiums, and othe

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EDWARDSVILLE - The ebb and flow of political ramifications due to racial and economic equity gains following 1964 Landmark Civil Rights legislation, inform the need for ongoing, diligent work for civil liberties, as the country braces for the 2024 Presidential Election. The above view was held by four Southern Illinois University Edwardsville faculty members who made up the panel during Southern Illinois University (SIU) System’s Conversation of Understanding (COU), held Wednesday, Oct. 30 in the Morris University Center’s Legacy Room on the campus of SIUE. The topic of discission was “Delivering on Promises: The Legacy of the Civil Rights Act and Economic Opportunity Act of 1964, and the 2024 Presidential Election.” Panelists included: Anthony Cheeseboro, PhD, associate professor in the Department of History; Bryan Jack, PhD, professor and director of SIUE’s Universities Studying Slavery Initiative in the Department of History; Timothy Lewis, PhD,

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Records show the state Department of Revenue changed its policy within hours of hearing backlash from Republican officials over a transgender woman with a female driver’s license.

At a rally for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz in Atlanta Sunday, Michael Stipe sang an R.E.M. classic with an unlikely musician backing him up: Jon Bon Jovi.In fan-captured footage, you…

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A yes means Missouri will grant an additional gaming boat license on the Osage River. A no vote will change nothing meaning no casino.

"Bolts of Color" explores screen-printed textiles at the Saint Louis Art Museum beginning November 8.

Exhibition is free and open to the public during COCA's business hours in Millstone Gallery Off The Record is a series of Gouache paintings of iconic record label and album art […]

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If union members vote for a third time to reject Boeing's offer, it would plunge the company into further financial peril and uncertainty.

Here are some key retail and business openings and closings for the St. Louis area in October:

I’ve written for years about how U.S. broadband is expansive, patchy, and slow thanks to mindless consolidation, regulatory capture, regional monopolization, and limited competition. That’s resulted in a growing number of pissed off towns, cities, cooperatives, and city-owned utilities building their own, locally-owned and operated broadband networks in a bid for better, cheaper, faster broadband. Regional giants like Comcast, Charter, […]

The employee-owned company, which also makes Germ-X hand sanitizer, has acquired a Michigan-based business.

The emails started showing up on Aug. 1 into the inboxes of Missouri Department of Revenue officials, signaling growing outrage from GOP officials over what they were seeing on social media. A transgender woman in Ellisville was using the women’s locker room at a private gym, and legislators wanted to know how she got a […]