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Planned Ameren Missouri transmission line to connect with Grain Belt Express

2 months ago
Ameren Missouri is making plans to build a nearly 30-mile-long transmission line through Callaway and Montgomery Counties. If approved by state utility regulators, the new transmission line would connect existing electrical substations in Callaway and Montgomery Counties to the multi-state Grain Belt Express, a power line carrying energy from Kansas to Indiana. Ameren submitted a […]
Jana Rose Schleis

Today's Weather: Sunny and breezy, milder than recent days

2 months ago
You can expect a sunny, breezy day in area with a high near 42 and a low around 25. Winds will come from the south-southwest at 14 mph with gusts up to 27 mph. This morning will start clear and bright with a cold but gradually warming trend. By afternoon, sunshine continues with a steady breeze making it feel chilly but not as cold as before. Evening looks mostly clear with lighter winds. Overnight, skies stay mostly clear with temperatures dropping back to the mid-20s. Tomorrow's forecast calls

Missouri AG faces coordinated, pro-China social media attacks over $24B COVID judgment

2 months ago
A week after Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway announced plans to seize $24 billion worth of assets owned by China as compensation for COVID-19, the online hate started pouring in.  Hundreds of posts on X, formerly known as Twitter, in late November began questioning the attorney general’s competence and character, honing in on her defense […]
Jason Hancock

Missouri Republicans are putting party priorities ahead of their citizens

2 months ago
Republican lawmakers are in desperate need of a civics lesson. They need to learn — or be reminded — that as elected officials their first obligation is to uphold the laws of the Missouri Constitution as they fight for the welfare and well-being of the citizens they represent. For years now, Missouri’s Republican lawmakers seem […]
Janice Ellis

Monday, Dec. 15 - Airport chaplains meeting a need, asking for support

2 months ago
Over the past 40 years, the St. Louis Lambert International Airport chaplaincy has prayed with military families, helped stranded travelers with hotels and supported numerous unhoused people with social services. All through in-kind donations. But as St. Louis Public Radio’s Andrea Henderson reports, chaplains say their finances are slowly drying up.

A frigid start Monday gives way to warmer temperatures

2 months ago
ST. LOUIS — Nice to see the sun on Sunday, but it was cold! That’s how we start our Monday. Area-wide temperatures will be in the single digits to low teens as we wake up. But, a south to southwest wind is taking hold and that is going to set us on a course for [...]
Angela Hutti