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Hawley asked Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg if he has personally compensated any of the victims and their families for what they have been through.

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…

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STL: Thursday, February 1, 2024

Events 📆

• STLfish 🐟 - stLouIST - a Better Bubble™
• Register for FOX 2’s 2024 ‘Fish Fry Finder’ - FOX 2
• The Best Things to Do in St. Louis This Weekend: February 1 to 3 - RFT

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 🍲

• St. Louis restaurant openings and closings: January 2024 - feastmagazine.com
• Taco Drip, an Afro-Latina soul food concept, is a family affair - feastmagazine.com

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

DIY 🪓

• Raspberry Pi IPO: Selling out? - Jeff Geerling's Blog

Captain's Blog 🏴‍☠️

• Add bacteria to the list of things that can run Doom - The Register
• The Morning After: This is Doom running on E. coli bacteria - Engadget is a web magazine with obsessive daily coverage of everything new in gadgets and consumer electronics
• Cory Doctorow has a plan to wipe away the enshittification of tech - The Register
• Last Mac with a CD/DVD drive officially obsolete - Boing Boing

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Thursday is the start of Black History Month, and St. Louis City officials will raise the 'Pan-African flag' at 10:00 a.m. outside City Hall.

St. Louis Aldermen get an update Thursday on the St. Louis Justice Center.

The Missouri Supreme Court will hear a challenge Thursday to the map of Missouri senate districts.

A new performance of Disney on Ice opens at Enterprise Center Thursday night through Sunday.

St. Louis Police homicide detectives are searching for killers Thursday morning after two separate murders overnight. Both of the investigations are still unfolding.

Hyundai is holding an anti-theft clinic in west St. Louis this weekend.

The lawsuit by Janae Edmondson against St. Louis City and others. The trial has been postponed for at least a year.

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 […]

The post ‘A product that’s killing people’: Lawmakers chastise social media giants for harm to kids appeared first on Missouri Independent.

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…

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).

I was a thorny, beer-swilling English rose. I had raven hair from a tube, ponged of Chanel No. 19 and flourished best in London weather — cloudy, drizzled, nipped by a mean little wind.

Despite a drop in crime rates and homicides the last four years, St. Louis area community members feel public safety officials shouldn’t be hasty to take credit. They still see a disconnect between police and the public.

It’s been over 30 years since Lenny Kravitz burst on to the scene with his debut album, Let Love Rule, but if he listened to what music execs were telling him, fans may never…

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The airline had about 8,000 employees based in St. Louis and used Lambert Field as its domestic hub.

That depends on whether organizing and unity are a match for two incumbents in the pocket of business and one embittered ex-governor.

The ballot measure process died three years ago, but some Republicans working on a new, more restrictive framework hope that voters won’t notice.

Koch Industries is buying an Iowa fertilizer plant built with taxpayer dollars. Will federal authorities block the deal?