ST. CLAIR COUNTY, Ill. - All schools in the East St. Louis School District #189 will be closed Wednesday morning as officials respond to a hazardous fire in the Metro East. The closure comes after a chemical fire broke out in the Metro East, impacting areas of Sauget, Cahokia Heights and East St. Louis. According [...]
On May 14, Kansas City was told in no uncertain terms by its own consultants that its practice of racial and sex-based preferences in city contracting faced serious legal problems. The Council chose not to end the program. There was no coverage of the report in local media until my column in The Kansas City Star […]
ST. CLAIR COUNTY, Ill. - A shelter-in-place order was lifted Wednesday morning after officials responded to a fire involving hazardous material in the Metro East, impacting areas of Sauget, Cahokia Heights and East St. Louis. The shelter-in-place order was lifted at 9 a.m. Wednesday morning as conditions continued to improve, St. Clair County Emergency Management [...]
ST. LOUIS - While the focus is the dangerous heat, we are monitoring a complex of storms near Omaha early Wednesday morning, along a boundary that is attempting to sink south into the region. This boundary has a hard time punching into St. Louis completely, but this complex of storms is expected to fade as [...]
Exposure to a highly toxic weedkiller called paraquat is tied to a person’s risk of developing Parkinson’s disease.
Lawmakers in Missouri and other Midwestern states have tried to pass measures banning paraquat.
But as the Midwest Newsroom’s Luke Nozicka reports, their efforts have stalled this year.
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