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The 'Rawlings Experience' opens in Maryland Heights today

2 years ago
MARYLAND HEIGHTS, Mo. -- Today marks the grand opening of the Rawlings Experience at Westport Plaza in Maryland Heights, a new attraction set to delight baseball fans in St. Louis. The Rawlings Sporting Goods Company, having moved its headquarters here late last year, is introducing this interactive space where fans can immerse themselves in baseball [...]
Chris Regnier

Civil War Shows a Violent, Fractured America, But Fails to Explain It

2 years ago
Reflecting the division in the country whose internecine conflict it vividly depicts, Alex Garland’s Civil War splits unevenly in two, alternating brutally effective and disturbing sequences of violence with caesuras of conversation and uneasy respite. The former, with their amped-up urgency and ratcheting suspense, display an impressive filmmaking mastery, but the latter strive for a level of sociocultural insight that they regrettably never quite reach. Garland deliberately withholds the backstory that would explain how a near-future U.S. descends into warring factions, and he provides only the barest hint of what’s transpiring in most of the country.
Cliff Froehlich

What you should know about over-the-counter birth control

2 years ago
ST. LOUIS – The FDA has approved the first daily contraceptive pill for over-the-counter sale, enhancing access to pregnancy prevention options. Dr. David Eisenberg, Chief Division of Complex Family Planning at Washington University and Barnes-Jewish Hospital, talks about new developments in over-the-counter birth control. Dr. Eisenberg says that the pill, containing an ingredient used in [...]
Joe Millitzer

Nearly 1 in 4 adults dumped from Medicaid are now uninsured, survey finds

2 years ago

Nearly a quarter of adults disenrolled from Medicaid in the past year say they are now uninsured, according to a survey released Friday that details how tens of millions of Americans struggled to retain coverage in the government insurance program for low-income people after pandemic-era protections began expiring last spring. The first national survey of […]

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Phil Galewitz

Disabled workers can be paid less than the minimum wage. Some states want to end that

2 years ago

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. — High-fives, fist-bumps and hugs come with the ice cream at the Golden Scoop. Tucked into a shopping center in suburban Kansas City, the shop employs 15 people with developmental disabilities. While customers first come for the sweet treats, many are drawn in by the Golden Scoop’s mission and friendly environment. “It […]

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Kevin Hardy

Small business owners ask U.S. House tax writers to extend Trump-era deductions

2 years ago

WASHINGTON — As Congress gears up for negotiations ahead of the 2017 tax law’s expiration, economists and small business owners urged U.S. lawmakers Thursday to extend or make permanent the Trump-era tax cuts. Business owners from West Virginia and Wisconsin testified at a hearing before members of the House Committee on Ways and Means, advocating […]

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Ashley Murray