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St. Louis County Council approves $128M Metro Transit budget for 2024 fiscal year

1 year 6 months ago
St. Louis County leaders voted to approve a $128 million budget for Bi-State Development, the organization that operates Metro Transit, in a 6-1 vote during a Tuesday afternoon council meeting. St. Louis County Councilmember Ernie Trakas was the only member Tuesday to vote against a bill to fund Bi-State Development's budget. The South County Republican argued the agency still needs to do better to improve poor service. "It is reckless of this body to pass this bill tonight and I will be voting…
Diamond Palmer

Nikki Haley Reinvigorates The GOP’s Breathless TikTok Hysteria… For The Children

1 year 6 months ago
We’ve noted many times how the GOP’s obsession with TikTok is stupid, performative, and utterly hollow. For example, the party desperately wants to ban TikTok for “privacy reasons,” yet consistently opposes passing privacy laws, or regulating data brokers that traffic in far more data — at a far greater international scale — than TikTok executives […]
Karl Bode

Ukrainians find warm welcome in Sedalia after fleeing their war-torn country

1 year 6 months ago

Before Russia invaded her country, Yuliana Bezlysiuk was making plans. She had studied business and accounting in Ukraine, earned three degrees and found a job as a clerk at a Ukrainian university. Early one morning in February 2022, all of her plans and dreams disappeared. “In one day, all of my plans go,” she said. […]

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Maggie Girardi

A Number of Tragedies

1 year 6 months ago

Laumeier Sculpture Park’s 2023 Visiting Artists in Residence are Pittsburgh-based artists Lenka Clayton and Phillip Andrew Lewis. This collaborative duo utilizes innovative approaches to conceptualism and minimalism to realize their […]

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Rachel Huffman

Materia Is Drawing Huge Crowds to Its Monthly Raves

1 year 6 months ago
No one seems to care that the building next to the club is on fire. It's about 11:30 p.m., and people in the line of twenty-somethings outside the warehouse in St. Louis' Near North Riverfront neighborhood are much more preoccupied with the music thumping from the venue than the smoke billowing from what looks like an abandoned building across the street.
Monica Obradovic

Capitol Perspectives: Does power corrupt in the Missouri House?

1 year 6 months ago

This column is prompted by the problems plaguing Missouri House Speaker Dean Plocher who is facing calls by his colleagues to resign because of financial double-dipping by seeking reimbursement from the House for travel expenses that had been paid by his campaign. His troubles continue a pattern of House speakers who have run into trouble […]

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Phill Brooks