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Around 30 percent of Missouri's school districts are only in session for four days a week this year. Missouri's top educator says this recent trend is part of a domino effect.

This is a follow-up to the previous post. It shows federal taxes and spending separately for three different categories: Medicare, Social Security, and everything else. The "everything else" category includes ordinary discretionary spending, Medicaid, and other social welfare programs. Social Security includes both retirement and disability. Medicare is Medicare. Here they are: I chose the ...continue reading "Raw data: The source of the federal deficit"

In December 2017, following years of complaints about high costs and political influence in Missouri’s low-income housing tax credit program, then-Gov. Eric Greitens engineered a vote that shut it down. It took Greitens’ resignation due to an unrelated scandal and nearly three years for the state tax credit program to be restarted. It now has a litany of new guardrails — including a project scoring system and set-asides for veterans, the chronic homeless and workforce housing — that…

Documentaries about John Lennon, Carlos Santana and Blood, Sweat and Tears all have a chance for an Oscar nomination this year.  The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences just announced the films eligible for…

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A federal lawsuit filed by a group of states alleges the NCAA’s transfer rule for college athletes violates antitrust law.

In October, the City of St. Louis made two national rankings for LBGTQ+ friendliness, but each list told a different story. One list named it among the most friendly to the queer community. The other list named St. Louis as one of the most unfriendly. We explore what’s behind that discrepancy with panelists Avi Ivaturi, peer support organizer at St. Louis Queer Support Helpline; Midwest Rainbow Research Institute Executive Director Inoru Morris; and Nick Dunne, LGBTQIA+ and Arts Liaison for the City of St. Louis.

A judge has dismissed a lawsuit that claimed the city of St. Louis’ refusal to pay refunds of the earnings tax to non-city residents who worked remotely outside the city limits violated the U.S. Constitution.

In 2023, the meaning of Hanukkah is ever more meaningful for many around St. Louis.

How many times did I show up at the “center” where Mom lived? Well, let’s just say that I did not keep count, but it was not often (I hated to write that). By the time I came to my senses, it was too late.

A 22-year-old man who attempted suicide in St. Louis police custody two weeks ago has now died, his family confirmed. On November 29, DeJuan Cole was in custody at the police's Central Patrol Division near Downtown West when he attempted to end his own life.

Two years ago Techdirt wrote about an attempt by Sony Music in Germany to implicate Quad9, a free anycast DNS platform (Cloudflare has technical details on what “recursive” means in this context), in copyright infringement at the domains it resolves. That was bad news for at least two reasons. First, because Quad9 is operated by […]

An O'Fallon, Missouri, executive writes that her firm manufactures products that help NASA’s Space Launch System. She says Congress must back the program, which boosts the economy of Missouri and other states.

A national food distributor is relocating its operations from north St. Louis to a larger facility in Ferguson.

Just a few weeks after their inaugural season came to an end, St. Louis CITY SC appears to be shaking up their roster.

The MSD Board of Trustees has selected the next Executive Director of the Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District. Bret Berthold was chosen Tuesday after an extensive nationwide search, led by GovHR. Berthold, a registered professional engineer for more than 30 years, has been with the District since 2009 and has served as the Director of […]

Police on Thursday morning found a man's body in a creek in Queeny Township.