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MOHELA faces accusations it mismanaged federal student loan forgiveness program

2 years 1 month ago

A quasi-governmental organization based in Missouri that services student loans is facing lawsuits and a scathing report from a pair of education organizations accusing it of gross mismanagement that needlessly resulted in borrowers losing thousands of dollars. The accusations against the Missouri Higher Education Loan Authority, better known as MOHELA, were laid out in a […]

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Annelise Hanshaw

Heritage House Evacuees Must Find New Housing by March 4, City Says

2 years 1 month ago
Everyone who knows anything about St. Louis real estate can agree on one thing: there is a dire shortage of decent, affordable housing for low- and moderate-income tenants. Which is why Richard Johnson is so mystified by the city of St. Louis’ announcement Wednesday that it will stop paying after March 4 for emergency housing for dozens of elderly and disabled people evacuated from Heritage House Apartments six weeks ago. Johnson, 65, and his wife Sheila, 67, have spent the past three weeks at a hotel near downtown St. Louis, courtesy of the city. 
Mike Fitzgerald

Dune: Part Two Tackles the Perils of Playing with Faith, Politics and Power

2 years 1 month ago
When it finally touched down in theaters three years ago, the most notable characteristic of Denis Villeneuve's first Dune film was probably the fact that it existed at all. A properly monumental adaptation of Frank Herbert's 1965 novel had been something of a cinematic white whale (or worm, if you will), defeating filmmakers as illustrious as David Lynch and Alejandro Jodorowsky. After several decades' worth of failed and abandoned attempts, Villeneuve (Arrival, Blade Runner 2049) and his collaborators pulled off an impressive achievement, bringing the cherished literary science-fiction tale to life in grandiose and relatively faithful fashion, all without sacrificing that essential blockbuster currency: spectacle.
Andrew Wyatt

City Condemns Patch Church Linked to Brutal Kidnapping

2 years 1 month ago
When news that a kidnapping had gone down at the church next door and that prosecutors alleged cult-like conditions within, Robin Jernigan was not surprised. Jernigan said she knew something bad was going to happen “ever since they moved in here.”  For the past nine years she's lived at her current home on Minnesota Avenue in the Patch neighborhood.
Ryan Krull