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Privacy Activists Call Out UK Schools For Using An App To Monitor Students

2 years 6 months ago
As we’re all too well aware, there’s plenty of money to be made in the surveillance business. The best surveillance businesses, though, are those that rely on captive markets. Sure, kids aren’t actually “captive,” but they’re in school often enough it’s tempting to let tech pick up the slack when it comes to keeping tabs […]
Tim Cushing

KC mayor argues police funding mandate should be tossed by Missouri Supreme Court

2 years 6 months ago

A state law raising the minimum funding Kansas City must provide its police department doesn’t impose any cost on the city or violate the state constitution, the Missouri attorney general’s office argued Wednesday. Deputy Solicitor General Jeff Johnson, representing the state auditor and secretary of state, told the Missouri Supreme Court Wednesday that legislation forcing […]

The post KC mayor argues police funding mandate should be tossed by Missouri Supreme Court appeared first on Missouri Independent.

Allison Kite

Daily Deal: The Ultimate Bundle of StackSkills + Infosec4TC + Stone River

2 years 6 months ago
The Ultimate Bundle of StackSkills + Infosec4TC + Stone River gives you access to thousands of online courses to help you learn new skills. The bundle is on sale for $120. Note: The Techdirt Deals Store is powered and curated by StackCommerce. A portion of all sales from Techdirt Deals helps support Techdirt. The products […]
Gretchen Heckmann

Missouri Supreme Court weighs constitutionality of law banning sleeping on public land

2 years 6 months ago

The Missouri Supreme Court on Wednesday heard arguments over the constitutionality of a wide-ranging law passed by the legislature last year banning sleeping on public land. Missouri lawmakers made sleeping on state-owned land a Class C misdemeanor, along with a slew of other provisions such as restricting state funding for permanent supportive housing in favor […]

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Clara Bates

Best Fairy Garden

2 years 6 months ago
Sure, you've seen fairy gardens along the sidewalks of city streets — a little cottage here, a kitschy fairy queen there, some shiny stones creating a path for a unicorn between them. But the outcropping of fairy homes on the piney edge of Francis Park is an actual fairy village.

Best Tribute

2 years 6 months ago
When Tina Turner died in May, there was an outpouring of emotion across the world as fans mourned. We felt the loss most acutely here in St. Louis because we considered Turner one of our own.

Best Wedding We Weren't Invited To

2 years 6 months ago
That final episode of Mad Men is iconic for good reason, as it perfectly captures 1950s ad man Don Draper moving into the groovy late-1960s by both achieving hippie spiritual enlightenment and also learning how to use said enlightenment to sell soda. However, even more importantly for Jon Hamm, St. Louis' favorite son and one of the city's most ardent boosters, it was on the set of the Mad Men finale that he met his future wife, Anna Osceola.

Best Zoo Animal

2 years 6 months ago
We've had many favorite animals at the Saint Louis Zoo, but we were still not prepared for the joy that would enter our hearts when we encountered Rhubarb the ginger monkey. A Francois' langur (pronounced frahn-SWAH LANG-err), her beautiful hair was the color of the setting sun when she was just a newborn babe.

Best Old Building

2 years 6 months ago
3610 Grandel Square, kranzberg-artsfoundation.org/the-grandel Today the Grandel Theatre is a multi-use space holding a theater, room for private events and the Dark Room, a nonprofit performance space, photography gallery, restaurant and bar.

Best Place (Not Your House) to Avoid Meeting Anyone

2 years 6 months ago
601 South Holmes Avenue, Kirkwood; bikegrantstrail.com Grant's Trail is 10 miles of walking and biking bliss, where the only human interaction you're expected to participate in is maybe nodding when someone flies past you in the opposite direction.