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Mozilla Unveils (Possibly Futile) Tool That Lets You Request That Data Brokers Delete Your Data

1 year 8 months ago
Every few weeks for the last fifteen years there’s been a massive scandal involving some company, telecom, data broker, or app maker over-collecting your detailed personal location data, failing to secure it, then selling access to that information to any nitwit with a nickel. And despite the added risks this creates in the post-Roe era, we’ve still done little to […]
Karl Bode

Fans pack St. Louis bars to watch Chiefs win Super Bowl 2024

1 year 8 months ago
St. Louis was packed and glued to the big screen Sunday night as Super Bowl LVIII kicked off in Las Vegas. Now, it's all over. The Kansas City Chiefs won the nail-biter in overtime 25 - 22 against the San Francisco 49ers. You may have watched football's biggest night of the year at a friend's place, at home or only for the commercials. KSDK went to watch parties across the St. Louis areas to catch-up with fans on both sides of the field. It felt like Christmas Day for Chiefs fans on Weber's Front…
Annie Krall

Missouri Marijuana to Direct Nearly $20 Million to Veterans This Year

1 year 8 months ago
The Missouri Veterans Commission will likely receive about $19 million from marijuana sales revenue before the current fiscal year is over on July 1, Amy Moore, director of the Division of Cannabis Regulation, told a House committee this week.  Next year it will be $22 million, she said, if the governor’s budget recommendations are approved. 
Rebecca Rivas

At 94, Grand Center's Continental Life Building Is a Timeless Beauty

1 year 8 months ago
If you live or work near Grand Center, or even if you've just enjoyed a night of theater at the Fabulous Fox, you've probably craned your neck to look up at the Continental Life Building — the prettiest skyscraper in the neighborhood. You're not the only one intrigued by this Art Deco beauty. The skyscraper, completed in 1930, was the model for the building haunted by ghosts in 1984's Ghostbusters (set in New York and filmed in New York, but inspired by St. Louis!).
Sarah Fenske

‘I’m absolutely being punished’: Dean Plocher accused of retaliating against GOP critics

1 year 8 months ago

So far this year, state Rep. Mazzie Christensen has filed 11 bills, ranging from changes to statewide education and public health policy to narrow legislation designed to help a small county in her district.  State Rep. Adam Schwadron has filed 12 bills, including his top priority to create a state fund to defray costs of […]

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Jason Hancock

Love and Black history sharing the same month is instructive

1 year 8 months ago

While many of us may not take time to celebrate love or Black history during the month of February, they both hold a lot in common and offer some valuable aspects we might want to consider. Among them: Understanding. Hope. Unity. In love, when we really want to know about a person or thing, we […]

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Janice Ellis