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‘AI’ Is Supercharging Our Broken Healthcare System’s Worst Tendencies

1 year 11 months ago
“AI” (or more accurately language learning models nowhere close to sentience or genuine awareness) has plenty of innovative potential. Unfortunately, most of the folks actually in charge of the technology’s deployment largely see it as a way to cut corners, attack labor, and double down on all of their very worst impulses. Case in point: […]
Karl Bode

St. Louis lost about $500K in recreational marijuana sales tax because of missing paperwork

1 year 11 months ago
The city of St. Louis is potentially out of hundreds of thousands of dollars in revenue since October. The city failed to file paperwork with the state of Missouri in time to collect sales tax on recreational marijuana. In April 2023, a proposition was passed to add an additional 3% sales tax in St. Louis city. It was meant to go into effect on Oct. 1, 2023. Yet, the St. Louis mayor's office says that the proper notification to marijuana purveyors and the required documentation to the State…
Annie Krall

Funding lag creates barrier for Missouri private school tax credit program

1 year 11 months ago

When students returned to classrooms around Missouri in August, only 601 had secured a scholarship through the MOScholars program as a returning recipient — half as many as were in the program in May.  There were also 247 first-time participants.  Three months into the school year, MOScholars has ballooned to 829 returning students and 675 […]

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Annelise Hanshaw

A Number of Tragedies

1 year 11 months ago

Laumeier Sculpture Park’s 2023 Visiting Artists in Residence are Pittsburgh-based artists Lenka Clayton and Phillip Andrew Lewis. This collaborative duo utilizes innovative approaches to conceptualism and minimalism to realize their […]

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Rachel Huffman

Dirty 20 Nerd Bar Seeks to Be a Dungeons & Dragons Hub in Ballwin

1 year 11 months ago
For as long as Jason Moughton can remember, he wanted to open a restaurant. But it wasn't until 2019 when that dream kicked into high gear — because that's when Moughton found Dungeons & Dragons. In falling in love with the tabletop game, Moughton and his wife, Ruth Camburn, were just a bit ahead of a very big curve.
Sarah Fenske