Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderation‘s Ben Whitelaw. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, Pocket Casts, YouTube, or your podcast app of choice — or go straight to the RSS feed. In this week’s round-up of the latest news in online […]
Stephen and Emily Savage are in the beginning stages of construction for Cottle Village, an upcoming development that will consist of a restaurant and bar, distillery and outdoor stage.
U2 continues their recently launched digital series, U2 To Love and Only Love - Deep Dives and B-Sides, with the fourth installment dedicated to the track "Please," from their ninth studio album, Pop.The series…
The legislative session had some notable achievements, including a major education bill, but other bills with broad support, such as a ban on child marriage, fell as the factional fighting intensified.
About 70 pharmacists and advocates gathered outside Express Scripts headquarters Friday, voicing wide-ranging complaints about the company and its peers.
Sir Paul McCartney has once again made The Sunday Times' Rich List — and passed a new milestone in the process. McCartney is one of 350 individuals and families to make the list,…
Missouri lawmakers on Thursday passed legislation that a preservation official and developer described as key to aiding redevelopment of two of downtown St. Louis' giant vacant buildings, while other priorities for the area failed to advance.
Kirkwood-raised musician David Sanborn died earlier this week after an extended battle with prostate cancer. He won six Grammy awards and sold millions of albums across a more than 50-year career. Known for his warm sound on alto saxophone, Sanborn won acclaim as a solo artist and as a collaborator with a long list of stars in the worlds of jazz, rock and pop. Earlier this year, Jazz St. Louis honored Sanborn with its first lifetime achievement award. We listen back to his conversation with STLPR’s Jeremy D. Goodwin.
Arguments over the validity of banning non-citizen voting in Missouri, which is already illegal, were part of what ultimately killed an initiative petition bill prioritized by Republicans this session. But in the final hours of the legislative session on Friday, the House approved a non-citizen voting provision as part of a Senate bill which will […]
St. Louis’ juvenile justice system is supposed to rehabilitate youth but it often makes things worse. That’s the topic of a recently published article written by Taylor Tiamoyo Harris and commissioned by the River City Journalism Fund. Taylor is a St. Louis-based journalist and recently began a job as investigative fellow for the New York Times. Harris discusses her recent reporting on juvenile justice.