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Whoops: Sinclair Broadcasting Airs Sponcon Featuring White Nationalist Who Wants Travis Kelce Executed For Vaccine Advocacy

2 years 5 months ago
Generally, when you talk about disinformation or propaganda, “big tech” companies like Facebook, or media giants like Fox News get the lion’s share of the attention. But as I’ve often noted, local news outlets in the U.S. were hollowed out years ago by mindless consolidation, and were ultimately replaced with something that looks like news, but is […]
Karl Bode

St. Louis police detective sabotaged his own case in order to undermine Kim Gardner

2 years 5 months ago

ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. The voicemail left on St. Louis police detective Roger Murphey’s cellphone carried a clear sense of urgency. A prosecutor in the St. Louis circuit attorney’s office was pleading with Murphey to testify […]

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Jeremy Kohler

Florissant City Council unanimously approves Koch Park land-swap bill

2 years 5 months ago
Florissant City Council members on Monday approved an ordinance authorizing a land swap that would turn nearly 30 acres of Koch Park into a new subdivision. The council unanimously approved Bill 9918 after more than an hour of public comment during Monday night's city council meeting. The ordinance authorizes Mayor Timothy Lowery to transfer ownership of nearly 32 acres of park property to Koch Park Development LLC, in exchange for 43 acres adjacent to Sunset Park to be used as parkland. The issue…
Diamond Palmer

A Number of Tragedies

2 years 5 months ago

Laumeier Sculpture Park’s 2023 Visiting Artists in Residence are Pittsburgh-based artists Lenka Clayton and Phillip Andrew Lewis. This collaborative duo utilizes innovative approaches to conceptualism and minimalism to realize their […]

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Rachel Huffman

Saint Louis University opens new $20M athletics facility

2 years 5 months ago
SLU on Monday held a ribbon-cutting for its new O’Loughlin Family Champions Center, a 25,000-square-foot facility designed to provide a number of services for the university’s 400-plus student athletes. The $20 million facility is slated to open formally later in October for student-athletes at the private Jesuit university.
Nathan Rubbelke

St. Charles Couple's Gay Pride Flag Is Torn Down and Torched

2 years 5 months ago
Alex and Kelly Pearson-Potts first put up a gay pride flag at their home in St. Charles during Pride month. But when what Alex calls "drama" broke out surrounding the St. Charles County Library, with an angry group haranguing the library board over a local librarian's choice to wear both makeup and goatee, they put it back up and kept it up. The flag hung proudly from their porch — until this past weekend.
Sarah Fenske