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Missouri Legislature Aims to Loosen Child Labor Laws

1 year 2 months ago
A push to eliminate Missouri’s requirement for children under 16 to obtain official work permits before they can begin a job could be debated by the House this week.  In order to work in Missouri, 14 and 15 year olds must obtain a certificate issued by their school, with information from their prospective employer about the details of the job as well as parental consent and age verification. The child’s school, or if they are homeschooled, a parent, must review that information to ensure it’s in line with state laws that restrict the kind of work children can do and their hours.
Clara Bates

Discovery CEO Zaslav Gets A Big Fat Raise Despite Being Terrible At His Job

1 year 2 months ago
By now we’ve well established that this particular series of media mergers — which began with AT&T’s doomed acquisition of Time Warner and ended with Time Warner’s subsequent spin off and fusion with Discovery — were some of the dumbest, most pointless “business” exercises ever conceived by man. The pointless saga burned through hundreds of billions in […]
Karl Bode

'Memory Store' Briefly Beautiful to Offer Vintage Clothes in University City

1 year 2 months ago
On the corner of Delmar Boulevard and Old Bonhomme Road sits University City’s newest boutique, Briefly Beautiful (8149 Delmar Boulevard). It's full of bright colors and vintage pieces — think Carrie Bradshaw’s closet.  Owner Susan Curtis wanted to create a place where people would come in and say “I remember this.”
Paula Tredway