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Jason Reitman’s new film about the origins of ‘Saturday Night Live’ forces a consideration of how the show turned into comfort food for its scared, self-satisfied liberal audiences.

The pledge was born out of shareholder activism — and was withdrawn as regulators crack down on greenwashing.

The debate over deep-sea mining exposes a contradiction between the country’s proud culture of environmental stewardship and its dependence on the extraction of the ocean’s riches.

In my previous post I said that someone should publicize claim denial rates for Obamacare more widely. Why not me? It's a great big chart with 162 insurers, but I guess I've got the room.

Matt Butchart of Ballwin, MO joined the Real Rock Army today

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JINGLE! will give St. Louis an extra dose of joy this holiday season. The spectacular, multisensory experience will completely transform O’Fallon’s CarShield Field with an immersive holiday light maze made […]

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I'll have our last ACS chart later, but in the meantime I happened to run across some actual data about health insurer claim denial rates, the topic du jour since UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was gunned down in broad daylight, allegedly in part because of his company's astronomical denial rate. These figures come from ACA ...continue reading "Claim denial rates from health insurers have been declining (maybe)"

The head of Missouri's education department says she's surprised Missouri schools are making progress in performance.

The audit also recommended the district put monthly cycle limits on spending, identify what type of purchases are actually acceptable and training staffers.

Confidential informants (CI) are considered useful to law enforcement investigations, so society is just expected to bear the burden of criminal acts committed by informants in (dubious) furtherance of public safety goals. CI’s are just criminals with more immunity than most — even when they happen to be some of the worst criminals imaginable. In […]

38-year-old Tommy Anderson has been required to wear a monitoring device since being released from prison last year. His case made headlines when he was convicted in 2017. 

There is a new option available for cervical cancer screening for women 30 years of age.  

The family of an accused killer from Independence County, Arkansas, is speaking for the first time.

The Saint Louis Public Schools District has announced new measures they are implementing regarding the use of district credit cards after an internal audit's findings were released Tuesday.