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Shooting in north St. Louis County, three injured

1 year 7 months ago
ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. - A double shooting in the Norwood Township neighborhood in north St. Louis County has left three injured and one in custody, according to officials. Around 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, officers were called to the 2000 block of Valette Drive. Upon arrival, police found an adult male and an adult female with [...]
Megan Mueller

August: Osage County

1 year 7 months ago

This Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning family drama paints a stark and often unflattering picture of the Midwestern family. The tableau includes a pill-popping and manipulative matriarch, a vanished patriarch […]

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Rachel Huffman

Republican senator leaves congressional race to run for Missouri secretary of state

1 year 7 months ago
State Sen. Mary Elizabeth Coleman has abandoned her run for the U.S. House of Representatives and instead filed to join the crowded GOP primary for Missouri secretary of state. Coleman, an attorney and first-term Republican from Arnold, said in announcing her candidacy that there is “no more important job than protecting the integrity of our elections and our founding documents.” Her announcement comes hours after House Speaker Dean Plocher announced that he, too, was pivoting to the secretary…
Jason Hancock

School hosts tea party to teach manners and respect

1 year 7 months ago
Fourth graders at Earl Nance Elementary School enjoyed an elegant tea party Tuesday afternoon. The memorable event was filled with smiles, laughter, fancy clothes and hats, along with various teas, cupcakes, finger sandwiches, sweet treats, and much more.
Kelley Hoskins

Congress can’t ban TikTok ‘just in case’

1 year 7 months ago

TikTok is used by around 150 million Americans, including journalists. Photo courtesy of Nordskov Media.

Like a bad penny, bills to ban TikTok keep turning up in Congress. We’ve written before about how such proposals are unconstitutional and would enable mass censorship. The newest legislation that would effectively ban the platform, passed earlier this month by the House of Representatives, is no exception.

Writing in the Columbia Journalism Review, Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) Advocacy Director Seth Stern warns that banning TikTok would impose a prior restraint on journalism and set a precedent for future censorship, including bans on foreign news sites.

Stern writes:

The reality is that even definitive proof that a platform is propagandizing or surveilling Americans wouldn’t justify censorship. The Pentagon Papers case established that “national security” isn’t a magic word that nullifies the First Amendment—and there, the alleged threat was to troops’ lives, not college kids’ political thought. Nonetheless, Justice Hugo Black explained that “the word ‘security’ is a broad, vague generality whose contours should not be invoked to abrogate the fundamental law embodied in the First Amendment.”

Read the full column here.

Freedom of the Press Foundation

Build My Future Expanding to Cape Girardeau & Bethany in Fall 2024

1 year 7 months ago
The popular Build My Future showcase event for high school students is reaching out to even more Missouri teens this fall. The Associated General Contractors of Missouri (AGCMO) has added new interactive events highlighting careers in the construction industry on Oct. 8 at the Show Me Center in Cape Girardeau and Oct. 23 at the […]
Dede Hance