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Monday, Dec. 8 - A bid to feed communities

1 month 3 weeks ago
The nonprofit organization Feeding America was looking for a better way to distribute billions of pounds of food to food banks each year. It used to use an algorithm to answer that question. It generated a list of food banks based on need, and when a shipment came up, Feeding America called the food bank at the top of the list. But what if a food bank didn’t need or want that donation? The answer to that problem is a market economy, of sorts.

Cold start to the workweek, brief warmup for Tuesday

1 month 3 weeks ago
ST. LOUIS — It's a cold start Monday morning with clouds still in place overhead. Clouds should gradually decrease Monday but temperatures will stay in the low to mid-30s. Temperatures swing upward for Tuesday with highs climbing into the 50s. Two cold fronts come through Tuesday night through Friday. The first cold front will bring [...]
Jaime Travers