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1,000 Books Before Kindergarten!

1 year 3 months ago
Remember, if you have not yet registered, there are two ways to participate in 1,000 Books Before Kindergarten: You can visit a Library location to receive a p
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Bumbling Time Warner CEO David Zaslav: What U.S. Media REALLY Needs Is More Mindless Consolidation And Deregulation

1 year 3 months ago
By now we’ve well established that the AT&T–>Time Warner–>Discovery series of media mergers were some of the dumbest, most pointless “business” exercises ever conceived. The utterly senseless saga burned through hundreds of billions in debt, saw more than 50,000 people lose their jobs, killed off numerous popular brands (like Mad Magazine and HBO), created oceans of animosity among […]
Karl Bode

States pledged hundreds of troops and spent millions to help Texas at the border so far this year

1 year 3 months ago
More than a dozen Republican governors gathered in Eagle Pass in February, heeding a call from Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to confront what he labeled “President Joe Biden’s border crisis.” The governors, along with other GOP state leaders, vowed to send another round of National Guard troops from their states to the Texas-Mexico border. With shifts […]
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Latest details on the assassination attempt of former President Donald Trump

1 year 3 months ago
ST. LOUIS - The FBI is searching for the motive behind Saturday's attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump. We still don't know a lot about the suspected shooter, 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks. The FBI believes he acted alone and that he had little to no social media presence. Another big question still unanswered is [...]
Laura Simon

Monday, July 15 - Security at the RNC, and a neighborly novel

1 year 3 months ago
The Republican National Convention begins today – after an attempt on the life of their presumed presidential candidate, Donald Trump. How our local lawmakers are responding to the events of the weekend and preparing for the week ahead. And: a onetime member of the Hollywood paparazzi who relocated to St. Louis has published a novel based on the everyday lives of his new neighbors. St. Louis Public Radio’s Jeremy Goodwin gets the view of St. Louis from a relative newcomer.

St. Louis to host large-scale major disaster response training

1 year 3 months ago
ST. LOUIS - The downtown St. Louis area is going to be busier than usual over the next few days, with major disaster response training taking place in the St. Louis region starting Monday. In fact, 8th Street and Clark Avenue, by Busch Stadium, are going to be one of the main areas where the [...]
Chris Regnier

GOP convention to go on as planned in Milwaukee, with Trump in attendance

1 year 3 months ago
WASHINGTON — Thousands of Republicans will gather in Milwaukee beginning Monday for the party’s presidential nominating convention — a typically joyous occasion that will likely take on a different tone this year after a gunman shot at Donald Trump, injuring him, on Saturday. Trump, who will be formally nominated as the GOP’s presidential nominee on […]
Jennifer Shutt