As we survey the rubble that once was the U.S. journalism industry, a common refrain involves lamenting that “online journalism just isn’t profitable.” But as the recent collapse of outlets like Sports Illustrated and The Messenger illustrate, the real culprit often isn’t that journalism isn’t profitable, it’s that U.S. media is predominantly run by utterly […]
Dean Plocher’s last year as speaker of the Missouri House wasn’t supposed to go this way.
The Republican from Des Peres was riding high at the end of the 2023 legislative session, able to point to big wins while pinning any disappointments on continued dysfunction in the state Senate. And he had amassed an impressive campaign war chest he hoped would help carry him to the lieutenant governor’s office in the upcoming elections.
Entering the third month of the 2024 session, things couldn’t…
A Missouri Central mechanic said he found a noose at his workstation, which he claimed was a racist stunt used to intimidate him after he raised safety concerns at the company.
Sending Missouri state troopers and National Guard soldiers to Texas’s border with Mexico will cost more than $2.2 million, state officials told the House Budget Committee on Monday.
Gov. Mike Parson is sending 200 soldiers and 11 Missouri State Highway Patrol troopers to work with Texas law enforcement at the request of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott.
There are about 250 National Guard soldiers already in Texas operating under federal orders, Maj. Gen. Levon Compton told the House Budget Committee.…
A dazzling dancer and civil rights activist, Freda Josephine McDonald was born in St. . Louis and would later light up stages from the United States all the way to Paris.
The Great Cyclone of 1896 killed at least 255 people after tearing through a broad swath of Lafayette Square, Compton Heights and Mill Creek Valley. More than a century later, it's still the third deadliest tornado in U.S. history. But the risk of tornadoes isn't just in the past, as the twister that hit St. Louis Lambert International Airport in 2011 should have made clear.
A new bill introduced at the St. Louis Board of Aldermen would give police the power to boot the cars of drivers they deem “reckless.” Ward 8 Alderwoman Cara Spencer says the move is necessary to prevent more pedestrian deaths in the city. Spencer introduced Board Bill 221 Friday, February 23, at the aldermanic meeting where it was referred to the Public Infrastructure and Utilities Committee. The legislation states that the pedestrian fatality rate in the city is three times that of the national average.
Students in the St. Louis Public School District could find themselves without a ride to school Tuesday morning. Nearly 100 bus drivers called in sick Monday and the district thinks it could happen again Tuesday.
Fire danger remains high Tuesday due to low humidity, dry vegetation, and south winds. Burning is discouraged. Fires that start could spread rapidly due to the conditions.
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