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With HR 3557, Broadband Monopolies Are Pushing A Bill That Would Crush Your Town’s Ability To Stand Up To Them

2 years 4 months ago
For thirty-plus years, giant telecom monopolies have worked tirelessly to crush all broadband competition. At the same time, they’ve lobbied state and federal governments so extensively, that the vast majority of politicians are feckless cardboard cutouts with little real interest in market or consumer health. The result has been fairly obvious: Americans pay some of […]
Karl Bode

City of St. Louis partners with longtime local nonprofit to replace Cure Violence program

2 years 4 months ago
The city of St. Louis selected a new community violence intervention provider on Thursday. The city announced a partnership with a nonprofit already committed to the well-being of families across the city: Mission St. Louis. The decision comes months after a callout to see who would take on the city's violence intervention initiative known as “Cure Violence St. Louis." The initiative started in 2020, administered by the St. Louis Department of Health, which hired local nonprofit Employment Connection…
Travis Cummings

Rams Settlement Survey Wants to Know About Your Sad, Sad Life

2 years 4 months ago
Earlier this week, the St. Louis Board of Aldermen announced a survey to help it figure out how to spend the $250 million windfall it received from its lawsuit over the Rams' departure. But if you eagerly signed up to participate, thinking you could spam the survey with suggestions on how to spend the money on your pet projects, guess again. This survey has just two questions, and it is not asking you about your priorities.
Sarah Fenske

Paperwork issues meant more than 16,000 Missourians lost Medicaid coverage in July

2 years 4 months ago

When Rebecca Uccello got a call that her daughter’s Medicaid coverage was in jeopardy, she said it “sent me into a tailspin.” Her 13-year-old daughter, Izabella, has been on Medicaid since age two because of severe developmental disabilities, including a birth defect which prevents her spinal cord from properly developing and a neurological condition which […]

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Clara Bates

Sales down at Polished.com

2 years 4 months ago
Polished, formerly Goedeker’s, reported a 37% drop in sales during its second quarter earnings call with investors Tuesday.
By Hannah Wyman St. Louis Post-Dispatch