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Wireless Giants To Get Off The Hook For Spying On Your Daily Movements For Years

1 month 3 weeks ago
There’s some endless, curious tensions within the corrupt Trump administration when it comes to their effort to completely destroy the government’s ability to hold corporations accountable for dodgy, nefarious, or even illegal behavior. Their own, lazy, circular logic and bad faith legal interpretations are creating vast new legal minefields we’ll be untangling for decades. The […]
Karl Bode

Wak’a Garden

1 month 3 weeks ago

Begin Again: Wak'a Garden is the second installment in Laumeier’s Begin Again series, honoring the Park’s 50-year history of collaborating with artists and supporting new commissions and exhibitions. The organic, amphitheater-shaped sculpture, built […]

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Myranda Levins

Missouri Senate rejects increase to school funding despite shortfall in state payments

1 month 3 weeks ago
Overly optimistic predictions for revenue from the lottery and casino taxes will cost Missouri school districts $245 per pupil before the fiscal year ends in June. And state lawmakers are now building next year’s budget around other funding sources that may prove just as uncertain. The Missouri Senate on Wednesday approved a spending plan for […]
Rudi Keller

Frontier's 'GoWild! Summer Pass' offers unlimited travel for $299

1 month 3 weeks ago
ST. LOUIS — Frontier Airlines unveiled its 2026 GoWild! Summer Pass, offering customers unlimited travel starting at $199. Under the pass, passengers can book domestic flights as late as the day before departure and international flights up to 10 days in advance. For each segment booked, a fare of $0.01 is charged, plus taxes and [...]
Nick Gladney

Thursday April 23 - Boosting literacy among Black children

1 month 3 weeks ago
Research shows just 14% of Black students in St. Louis are proficient readers. Literacy organizations like Black Men Read are trying to increase those rates by providing free books and tutorials to students in the area. St. Louis Public Radio’s Andrea Henderson takes us into a classroom where Black children get to see people who look like them, encouraging them to read.

Breezy Thursday ahead of rain and storms on Friday

1 month 3 weeks ago
ST. LOUIS - One more quiet day Thursday before our weather gets active once again. Temperatures will be warmer than Wednesday by a few degrees and breezier, with highs in the low 80s. Thursday evening, ahead of a cold front, strong to severe storms will develop out west towards Kansas City. The rain and storms [...]
Angela Hutti

Is competition the answer to Missouri’s growing utility costs?

1 month 3 weeks ago
Late last month, both chambers of the Missouri legislature began hearings on proposals to introduce electrical choice and competition, challenging the state’s long-standing model of electricity generation and delivery. At the core of the debate is a basic economic principle: competition tends to put downward pressure on costs. Currently, because we cannot reasonably expect multiple […]
Jason Walter, Grant Musick

Shackled immigrants targeted for deportation are being flown in and out of Kansas City airport

1 month 3 weeks ago
Missouri’s role in the Trump administration’s campaign to deport millions of immigrants has increased dramatically, up 200%. But it’s not primarily through highly publicized incidents where immigrants have been taken into custody at their workplaces, in apartment parking lots or after check-ins at Kansas City’s immigration court. It’s through Kansas City International Airport. At least […]
Mary Sanchez