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The water election that wasn’t

1 year 2 months ago
Hello, and welcome back to State of Emergency. I’m Jake Bittle, and today we’re going to shift the focus away from the storm-battered Southeast and take a look at one of the nation’s hottest battleground states. Election Day is just two weeks away, and the high-octane race for president is consuming almost all the media’s […]
Jake Bittle

After Bleeding TV Subscribers For Years, Cable Giants Now Losing Broadband Customers To Home 5G, Community-Owned Fiber

1 year 2 months ago
For much of the last decade, cable giants like Comcast (Xfinity) and Charter (Spectrum) have been protected from TV “cord cutting” by one simple fact: they enjoyed a monopoly over broadband access across vast swaths of the U.S. That monopoly means that if a customer ditched traditional TV, Comcast or Charter could recoup any losses […]
Karl Bode

Shooting leaves woman seriously injured in south St. Louis

1 year 2 months ago
ST. LOUIS - A woman is seriously injured in a shooting late Monday night in south St. Louis. The shooting happened just before midnight on South Broadway in the Mount Pleasant neighborhood. Fox 2's Brian Howe was on the scene in the Nissan Rogue Runner. He says the shooting happened inside the River Bluff Manor [...]
Nick Gladney

What is ranked-choice voting, and should Missouri ban it?

1 year 2 months ago
Ranked-choice voting is on the rise in the U.S., with two U.S. states and 45 U.S. cities now using some version of it. This November, Missourians will have the opportunity to ban it. Advocates of ranked-choice voting argue that it solves the problems of other voting methods, while detractors counter that it makes elections unnecessarily complicated. Here […]
Joshua Holzer