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Schnucks self-checkout getting big change

1 year 7 months ago
A big change is coming to every Schnucks location starting Thursday. Shoppers at numerous Schnucks stores around St. Louis recently noticed signs posted near exits that said the chain's self-checkouts will start limiting purchases to 10 items or less. KSDK reached out to Schnucks asking for details on the new policy, and a store representative confirmed the change affects each of the chain's locations. "Self-checkout lanes in all of our stores will be limited to customers who have 10 items or less…
Hunter Bassler

Bush explains decision to promote her partner from 'volunteer' to security post on campaign payroll

1 year 7 months ago
U.S. Rep. Cori Bush (D-Missouri) offered a fresh explanation for her decision to put her partner, Cortney Merritts, on campaign payroll. "We couldn't pay the big costs for security like some of my colleagues are able to do, and so we went with what we could afford," Bush said during a Wednesday night appearance on MSNBC's 'The Reid Out' with Joy Ann Reid. "There were a lot of issues with us retaining, just good, good staff." Bush was responding to new reports that her campaign's security expenses…
Mark Maxwell

STLduJour(nal) ⏳ - MMXXII:32-AM

1 year 7 months ago
STLduJour(nal) ⏳ - MMXXII:32-AM JW Thu, 02/01/2024 - 12:36

STL: Thursday, February 1, 2024

Events 📆 BuySTL 👜
  • This St. Louis County bakery makes some of the best croissants in the US, according to Yelp - KSDK
  • Schnucks self-checkout getting big change Feb. 1 - KSDK
Restaurants 🍲 Neighborhoods 🏡
  • Historic Midtown Buildings Saved from Demolition by Kranzberg Arts Foundation - RFT
  • Arts foundation buys, plans to redevelop historic buildings eyed by SLU for demolition - KSDK
STL100 💯
  • St. Charles has a 'frog hole' like Chicago's 'rat hole' - FOX 2
CityGov 🏛
  • Drone company founder speaks on launching live-streaming program in St. Louis despite backlash - KSDK
  • St. Louis aldermen getting update on 'Guaranteed Basic Income Program' today - FOX 2
Infrastructure 🚽
  • Is St. Louis' water system 'on the brink'? Not exactly - KSDK
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‘A product that’s killing people’: Lawmakers chastise social media giants for harm to kids

1 year 7 months ago

Members of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee castigated executives at leading social media companies Wednesday, calling for more to be done to shield children from sexual exploitation, drug dealing, self-harm encouragement and other damaging content. In one tense exchange, Missouri Republican Sen. Josh Hawley demanded to know if Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, had […]

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Jacob Fischler

Study: The arts contributed $868M to St. Louis economy in 2022

1 year 7 months ago
As St. Louis positions itself as a great place to work, live and play, the arts and culture sector plays a vital role. According to the recent Americans for the Arts - Arts and Economic Prosperity 6 study (AEP6), the sector contributes nearly $868 million in economic impact in St. Louis City and St. Louis County. The study was conducted in partnership with the Regional Arts Commission of St. Louis (RACSTL), the largest public funder of art and culture in the region. In St. Louis, the arts and…
Regional Arts Commission of St. Louis

Police Fail to Probe Arson, Yet City Moves to Condemn Torched Building

1 year 7 months ago
Attorney Jonathan Beck has lived and worked in the City of St. Louis for almost 20 years — but a recent letter from the city's Building Division has him for the first time mulling taking his business elsewhere.  Beck's office has been on the corner of Magnolia and Arkansas avenues in Tower Grove East since 2011 (and has been in the neighborhood since 2004).
Ryan Krull