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Ameren Missouri makes long-term plans to build new nuclear power plant

1 year 3 months ago
The demand for electricity is rising and as Missouri utilities plan for more power, consumer advocates worry about the cost — especially as nuclear power may be a larger part of the state’s energy future. Ameren Missouri — the electricity provider for most of mid-Missouri — operates the state’s only nuclear power plant in Callaway […]
Jana Rose Schleis

Saudi Arabia Buys Everybody’s Sensitive Pokémon Go Location Data

1 year 3 months ago
During the great TikTok moral panic of 2022-2025 we noted repeatedly how it was very weird for the public, press, and lawmakers to singularly hyperventilate about the privacy and propaganda impacts of one specific Chinese-owned app while just completely refusing to do anything about the much broader problems that TikTok (and a thousand other companies) […]
Karl Bode

Lawmakers vote down a second bill to regulate intoxicating hemp products in Missouri

1 year 3 months ago
A second proposal backed by Missouri’s hemp industry to regulate products like hemp-THC seltzers and edibles was defeated in a House committee Thursday morning, after the hemp-beverage distributor who helped draft the bill emailed committee members that morning asking them to kill it.  The 5-7 vote in the House General Laws committee came after Republican […]
Rebecca Rivas