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Opinion: Maplewood’s Decade of Change

1 year 4 months ago
Stories of Black residential displacement in St. Louis County are not hard to come by. Meacham Park. Brentwood Promenade. Downtown Clayton. One of these stories—the one still playing out here in Maplewood—is a little harder to place a label on, but in the end, its outcome may be no less drastic. Today, the U.S. Census […]
Colin Bassett

Big Telecom Eyes More Broadband Usage Caps (And A Tax On Big Tech) As Revenues Sag

1 year 4 months ago
Things aren’t too exciting if you’re a telecom executive right now. All the hype in tech is singularly fixated on the more headline catching, stock fluffing, and usually very broken aspects of “AI.” 5G, hyped as a transformative world changing tech by overly eager telecom marketing departments, wound up being a consumer dud that users […]
Karl Bode

Boeing to plead guilty to a criminal fraud charge, avoiding a criminal trial

1 year 4 months ago
(WJET/WFXP) — Boeing has agreed in principle to a deal with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) which includes a guilty plea to conspiracy to defraud the U.S. This charge is in connection to the company misleading the FAA during its evaluation of the 737 MAX. The plea deal also includes Boeing paying the maximum [...]
Joshua Hallenbeck

Weekend shootings in St. Louis City raise safety concerns

1 year 4 months ago
ST. LOUIS - It's been a violent several days in St. Louis City. The most recent shooting happened near the Horseshoe Casino downtown on North Second Street, as a man is suffering from critical injuries. The incident happened around 2:30 Monday morning. District four officers are investigating. This follows a violent weekend across St. Louis [...]
Laura Simon

Six businesses broken into in Florissant overnight

1 year 4 months ago
FLORISSANT, Mo. - Florissant police are searching for suspects Monday morning after multiple overnight business break-ins. Florissant police confirm that at least six business break-ins happened along New Halls Ferry and Lindbergh in the span of about half an hour overnight Monday morning. Florissant police say this whole episode started with a break-in at Brennan's [...]
Chris Regnier

Missouri attorney general still working through 2023 Sunshine Law backlog 

1 year 4 months ago

Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey has nearly completed work on a backlog of requests for records submitted to his office by the public last year.  That means work can finally begin processing requests submitted this year.  The 2023 requests were initially supposed to be completed by May. But a spokeswoman for the attorney general said […]

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Jason Hancock