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Automakers Try To Bullshit Their Way Past ‘Right To Repair’ Standoff In Massachusetts

2 years 3 months ago
Giant automakers continue to try and scuttle a popular Massachusetts law aimed at making repairing your own cars easier and more affordable. And they’re once again using some familiar, misleading tactics to do it. In late 2020, Massachusetts lawmakers (with overwhelming public support) passed an expansion of the state’s “right to repair” law, requiring that all […]
Karl Bode

Technology credited with reducing crime along Chicago expressways coming to Metro East

2 years 3 months ago
Technology that police say has helped reduce crime along Chicago area expressways is coming to the Metro East. Illinois State Police began installing license plate reader cameras on Chicago area expressways following the enactment of the Tamara Clayton Expressway Camera Act on January 1, 2020. Clayton was on her way to work in February 2019 when she was shot and killed while driving on Interstate 57 near Cicero Avenue in Chicago. Between 2021 and 2022, shootings dropped by 47% and homicides dropped…
Christine Byers

Top 5 Bagels in St. Louis, Chosen by Our Critic

2 years 3 months ago
Eight months ago,if you would have asked around for where to get a bagel in St. Louis, you would have received not a recommendation, but the lamentation, "Nowhere. Bagel Factory closed."
Cheryl Baehr