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AT&T Has To Settle Over Another 911 Outage, This Time For $950k

1 year 10 months ago
As a “trusted ally” in the government’s vast and unaccountable domestic surveillance programs, AT&T receives oodles of government favors. From broad and often mindless deregulation and massive deployment subsidies to $42 billion in tax breaks in exchange for doing absolutely nothing, the U.S. government adores slathering its patriotic partner with cash. Which makes it all […]
Karl Bode

Finalists named for 2024 St. Louis ORBIE Awards

1 year 10 months ago
St. LouisCIO has announced the finalists for its 2024 St. Louis ORBIE Awards. The St. LouisORBIE Awards honors chief information officers who have demonstrated excellence in technology leadership. With support from St. Louis Business Journal, St. LouisCIO will honor the CIOs who are driving innovation and transforming St. Louis’s leading organizations. The 2024 St. Louis ORBIE Awards event is scheduled for Dec. 5, 2024, at the Chase Park Plaza Royal Sonesta Hotel. The finalists were named in…

St. Louis County issues Endangered Person Advisory for 33-year-old

1 year 10 months ago
ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. - The St. Louis County Police have placed an Endangered Person Advisory for a 33-year-old woman. Amber Erdelen contacted a friend via text message, indicating she was being held against her will. The endangered person advisory went out after an incident that occurred on the 1000 block of Lemay Ferry Road [...]
Nick Gladney

Friday, August 30 - Midwest preps for legal fights over water

1 year 10 months ago
The Western U.S. has seen decades of disputes over water. Now climate change could bring more water scarcity to the Midwest. That’s left states like Missouri wondering if the thirst for water could be headed this way. St. Louis Public Radio’s Kate Grumke reports.

Missouri hemp leaders file suit to halt governor’s ban on hemp THC products

1 year 10 months ago
The Missouri Hemp Trade Association filed a lawsuit Friday in Cole County Circuit Court to stop the governor’s ban on all intoxicating hemp food and drinks from taking effect Sunday. The action comes in response to a memo the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services sent to food retailers on Thursday detailing how the […]
Rebecca Rivas

Preserving the promise of public service loan forgiveness

1 year 10 months ago
Much has been written about the conservative crusade to stop President Biden’s student loan cancellation efforts, including Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey’s recent victory in the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals, which blocked the Department of Education from implementing its new income-driven repayment plan, Saving on a Valuable Education (SAVE). Less noticed was how this […]
Dane Sosniecki

Missouri's Black students disciplined at higher rates: Takeaways from AP's report

1 year 10 months ago
Racial differences in how schools discipline students received new attention 10 years ago, during a national reckoning with racial injustice. A decade later, change has been slow to materialize. In many schools around the country, Black students have been more likely to receive punishments that remove them from the classroom, including suspensions, expulsions and being [...]
ANNIE MA, CHEYANNE MUMPHREY, and SHARON LURYE, Associated Press

SLU professor blazing trails in male-dominated paralympic wheelchair rugby

1 year 10 months ago
PARIS (AP) — When told by the stadium announcer that they were witnessing history, the Paris spectators roared and applauded. Not that the woman making history actually noticed: Sarah Adam was far too occupied—merrily slamming her wheelchair into other players, all of them men, and zipping across the court to score try after try. Adam [...]
JOHN LEICESTER, Associated Press