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Abortion safety takes center stage as Missouri trial enters second week

2 months ago
KANSAS CITY — Roughly 1% of the more than 53,000 Missourians who received abortions over the last 10 years in Illinois and Kansas experienced complications, ranging from infection to incomplete abortions to hemorrhaging.  Lawyers for Planned Parenthood and the Missouri Attorney General’s Office are dissecting dozens of Missouri’s Targeted Regulation of Abortion, or TRAP laws, […]
Anna Spoerre, Kevin Hardy

Missouri court cases vanish from public view through ‘security level’ system

2 months ago
A Missouri House candidate’s history of domestic violence. A Highway Patrol trooper’s sexual abuse of a fellow officer at a work conference. A lawsuit between prominent St. Louis attorneys. All of these cases were removed from Missouri’s public court database. Searching for them online, it appeared as if they never existed. Cases assigned a high […]
Finnegan Belleau, Nathan Lee

Could this be the last year we commemorate MLK Day as a federal holiday?

2 months ago
If left up to the Trump administration, Martin Luther King Jr. Day would likely be nullified as a federal holiday. Trump used his executive powers to change the observance of MLK Day by cancelling it as a free-admission day for those who wish to visit our national parks during federal holidays. The order also applies […]
Janice Ellis

Maplewood History: A Hunk, A Hunk Of Burning…Hobby?

2 months ago
Perhaps it is because this is the very coldest time of the year for us that this previous post came to mind?  This is about my brief and single experience with a collector of matchbook covers.  A hot topic if ever there was one. Note there was a Part Two to this post.  The link […]
Doug Houser