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The 2024 Excellence in Nursing Awards

1 year 1 month ago
St. Louis Magazine honored the remarkable efforts of nurses across the region by hosting the 15th annual Excellence in Nursing Awards, presented by BJC HealthCare and Barnes-Jewish College Goldfarb School of Nursing.
SLM Staff

With eye toward reelection, Mayor Jones calls St. Louis ‘safer, stronger and healthier’

1 year 1 month ago
Mayor Tishaura Jones says she has set the city of St. Louis on a course to be “safer, stronger and healthier” than it is today. Jones highlighted accomplishments at her State of the City speech last Tuesday. She also launched her re-election bid last week. STLPR reporter Rachel Lippmann joins the Politically Speaking Hour on St. Louis on the Air to discuss this news.

Missouri legislative session ends in flurry of GOP infighting and Democratic optimism

1 year 1 month ago
In a rare instance of triumph for Missouri Democrats, an effort to raise the bar to amend the state constitution — a central GOP priority — was defeated. Infighting among Republicans was a highlight of this year’s Missouri legislative session that ended Friday. STLPR statehouse and politics reporter Sarah Kellogg joins the Politically Speaking Hour on St. Louis on the Air. We also open up our mailbag and answer listener and reader questions about the session and political process.

Social Media’s Electoral Power: More Hype Than Reality?

1 year 1 month ago
It’s been almost an article of faith among many (especially since 2016) that social media has been a leading cause of our collective dumbening and the resulting situation in which a bunch of fascist-adjacent wannabe dictators getting elected all over the place. But, we’ve always found that argument to feel massively, if not totally overblown. […]
Mike Masnick