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Starbucks workers from two St. Louis City locations intend to unionize in hopes for improved working conditions, wages and schedules.

With the help of ten truckloads of sand, The Magic House’s backyard will be transformed into a beachfront park.   Visitors can take a stroll along the boardwalk, search for

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There’s no doubt Pink Floyd fans would love to see the band members reunite and play the songs they love, but considering the strained relationship between Roger Waters and David Gilmour, drummer and founding member Nick…

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Jeremy Kaufman is a Washington University alumnus currently walking the picket lines in Los Angeles as a member of the Writers Guild of America (which has been on strike since May 2). A writer in Hollywood for more than a decade, he's worked on shows that have appeared on Amazon and Starz.

The labor movement and the environmental justice movement have a shared history — and today, workers in all kinds of sectors are banding together to call for climate action.

Winnie-the-Pooh, R2-D2, Baseball and Kermit the Frog  – these are some of the telephones you’ll see at the Jefferson Barracks Telephone Museum.   Housed in a restored 1896 building, the

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Join us for a guided caravan tour! Stay in your car and we will drive to four locations. First, we’ll visit a U.S. Senator involved in a duel on Bloody

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The work of world-renowned artist Dale Chihuly is coming to the Missouri Botanical Garden in a stunning exhibition uniting art and nature. With thousands of pieces of blown glass forms

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The available jobs include skilled labor in avionics, interior installations, structures and testing, as well.

A federal judge struck down Arkansas’ ban on gender-affirming medical care for transgender youth Tuesday, nearly two years after blocking it from going into effect. Act 626 of 2021, known as the Save Adolescents From Experimentation (SAFE) Act, prohibited physicians from providing “gender transition” treatments like hormones, puberty blockers and surgeries to those under age […]

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Public forum has been at the end of the St. Louis County Council meetings since the beginning of the year. Ernie Trakas wants the public to speak at the start.

A St. Louis County woman who went missing Tuesday evening has been located and is safe.

"Aside from all that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the Play?"

In his new book I Want a Better Catastrophe, lifelong activist Andrew Boyd navigates the Climate Crisis with grief, hope and gallows humor. Earthworms host Jean Ponzi chimes in (leaving Boyd the best lines, as a gracious host would do). 

     

Boyd's leadership of the global CLIMATE CLOCK campaign blended art, science and grassroots organizing. His writings ask eight diverse climate thinkers "Is it really the end of the world? If so, now what?" From his own broken-open heart, he walks with our climate angst toward living with climate reality - and staying open-hearted. 

Related Earthworms Conversations: Midwest Climate Collaborative with Heather Navarro (May 2022) 

Diversifying Power: Jennie C. Stephens Advocates Energy Democracy (Sept 2020)

Facing the Climate Emergency with Margaret Cline Solomon (June 2020)

THANKS to Andy Heaslet, Earthworms steadfast friend and audio engineer, and to KDHX production powerhouse, Jon Valley.

Thanks to New Society Publishing! www.newsociety.com

 

Tegan and Sara will perform live with special guest Carlie Hanson at The Pageant on June 21.

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Nils Lofgren’s new solo album, Mountains, is due out in July, and he’s just shared another track from the record: a song inspired by the late Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts, who passed away in…

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With the two killings Tuesday, St. Louis has had 80 homicides so far this year. This time last year, the city had 81 homicides.

For the better part of the decade, the generally feckless FCC has been trying to require that broadband ISPs be a little more honest about broadband fees and limits at the point of sale. The FCC has been pondering implementing a “nutrition label for broadband” for years but could never quite get around to it. […]

Gulfstream Aerospace Corp. plans an expansion at its operations at St. Louis Downtown Airport in Cahokia Heights that will create 200 jobs.