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Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey is seeking to squash a nearly eight-month-old program that has waived $1.2 billion in student loans for 153,000 borrowers and limited the payment amounts for 8 million others.  He is joined by the attorneys general from Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, North Dakota, Ohio and Oklahoma in a lawsuit filed Tuesday in […]

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Andrew Bailey is leading the lawsuit, which was filed alongside six other Republican attorneys general.

WASHINGTON — Republican Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri thinks he’s found a path for stalled tax legislation that would temporarily expand the child tax credit and restore business tax breaks that are expired or have sunset under the 2017 tax law. Hawley’s idea is to attach the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act to the tax bill […]

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Today on TAP: With big money counting on the courts, progressives are taking the fight to the court of public opinion.

Campo Architecture says it will focus another downtown project, the redevelopment of the Mark Twain Hotel, instead.

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The Creve Coeur City Council on Monday night approved incentives for a developer’s near-$1 billion plan for part of the Bayer campus.

Deep Purple is getting ready to hit the road this summer on their = 1 More Time Tour celebrating 50 years of their classic tune “Smoke on the Water.”  The tour, featuring…

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Democrats say the proposal is political theater in an election year.

Sigh. The prostate biopsy results came back this morning and I have prostate cancer. It's "large and aggressive," but still probably treatable via normal radiation therapy. We won't know for sure until I get a CT scan and a bone scan that tell us whether the cancer is limited to the prostate or has metastasized ...continue reading "Health update"

Across the country, book challenges and bans have soared to the highest levels in decades.

Police say Julius Butler was caught with some of the stolen goods taken from the museum.

Commercial Development Co. plans to redevelop the 49-acre former Columbia Steel Casting Co. plant in North Portland.

The city of St. Louis didn't yet have record of the sale.

From St. Louis/Southern Illinois Labor Tribune:  The immigrant share of the labor force reached a record high of 18.6 percent in 2023, according to an Economic Policy Institute analysis of Current Population Survey (CPS) data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Anti-immigration advocates have been out in full force, using this as a talking point […]

From St. Louis Post-Dispatch:  The City Council here on Monday approved tax breaks for developers planning to redevelop half of Bayer’s former campus into a mixed-use “Main Street” concept. The council voted 6-1 to approve the incentive package for Olia Village, a $985 million project by Fireside Financial and Jack Matthews Development that calls for […]

A Dellwood man is accused in last week's robbery of a north St. Louis County supermarket.