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Missouri AG Catherine Hanaway to address illegal slot machines Wednesday

2 months ago
ST. LOUIS - Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway is scheduled to make an announcement Wednesday morning regarding illegal slot machines in businesses across the state. The briefing will take place at 10:30 a.m. in Springfield. The issue centers on video lottery terminals, which operate similarly to casino slot machines but are located in gas stations [...]
Nick Gladney

‘He’s free of all the politics’: How Thom Tillis became what passes for a GOP rebel in DC

2 months ago
WASHINGTON — Sure, Sen. Thom Tillis has become the most visible, outspoken Republican insider critic of the second Trump administration. But don’t mistake Tillis for a maverick. The North Carolina senator is being who he’s long been, the sort of GOP stalwart known as an establishment Republican. A Republican who’s conservative on fiscal issues, usually […]
David Lightman

Elections officials decry costs heaped on states in SAVE America voting bill

2 months ago
The voting overhaul measure that the U.S. Senate began debating Tuesday would cause major headaches for underfunded state and local election officials, without meaningfully stopping fraud, according to a collection of voting rights advocates and elections officers. The so-called SAVE America Act, which President Donald Trump is relentlessly pushing, would create chaos for state and […]
Jacob Fischler

Wednesday, March 18 - Looking inward

2 months ago
The County Council's passage of a resolution opposing any “merger, re-entry, consolidation, or structural reunification of the City of St. Louis with St. Louis County now or in the foreseeable future” came the same day County Executive Sam Page announced a push for public input on the widely discussed plan. Plus, St. Louis singer, songwriter and dancer Jordan Ward has become a rising R&B star in recent years. He took time away from his world tour to sit down with STLPR's Chad Davis to talk about his introspective new album.