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Florissant Fiscal Year 2024 annual action plan

2 months ago

Florissant begins 30-day Comment Period on Fiscal Year Action Plan The City of Florissant, Missouri, conduct a public hearing on Monday, March 11, 2024, at Florissant City Hall Council Chambers, 955 rue St. Francois, concerning the Fiscal Year 2024 Annual Action Plan for the Florissant Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Program. A draft of the […]

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Illinois measles outbreak linked to Chicago migrant shelter

2 months ago
Seven people living at a Chicago shelter for migrants have tested positive for measles since last week, prompting the arrival of a team with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to guide city and state officials' response to the infections, including vaccination efforts.
Associated Press

Cori Bush and Donald Trump Both Just Say No to TikTok Ban

2 months ago
Congresswoman Cori Bush (D-St. Louis) doesn't often agree with former President Donald Trump, but they currently find themselves aligned on at least one issue: TikTok. This morning, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill that would force the social media app's parent company, the China-based ByteDance, to either spin TikTok into its own entity with a non-Chinese owner or have the app banned in the United States. The bill passed 352 to 65 with broad support from both sides.
Ryan Krull

MSCHF Asks The Supreme Court To Say Its Parody Of Vans Shoes Is Free Speech

2 months ago
The last time we wrote about an interaction between the Supreme Court and the famed art collective/pranksters/social commentators/cultural marketing jammers MSCHF, it was covering their interesting choice of amicus briefs. They sought to comment on the “Bad Spaniels” case by making the Justices and their clerks complete “connect the dot” artwork as an attempt to […]
Mike Masnick

Housekeeping update

2 months ago
Comments are back up! Apparently some kind of noaccess code got mysteriously added to the site, but Bluehost deleted it and now everything is fine.
Kevin Drum

WTO, RIP

2 months ago
Today on TAP: The annual World Trade Organization meeting came to an ignominious end last week with no ‘progress’ on major issues. That is a form of progress.
Robert Kuttner