Since 2003, Missouri has set aside a weekend at the beginning of August when families won’t pay state tax on new clothes and school supplies as they prepare for the start of the school year.
For just as long, every city, county and special district that imposes its own sales tax has had the authority to opt out of the Back to School tax holiday. With local sales taxes often matching or exceeding the state charge, the impact of the discount was limited.
This year, for the first time, there will…
On Saturdays in Benton, Greg Poole's card shop is the place to be. And every single dollar he makes goes to help teachers, the elderly and anyone else who needs it.
A former front-runner to become St. Louis’ next police chief has sued the city alleging he was passed over for the promotion because he is white.
St. Louis Lt. Col. Michael Sack and former Lt. Col. Lawrence O’Toole were the only remaining finalists for the job after Mayor Tishaura Jones conducted a national search to replace John Hayden in 2021. The four external candidates failed to show up for the written portion of the selection process, leaving the two internal commanders standing.
Jones…
Mergers will be suspended for several parishes until the Dicastery for the Clergy makes a decision, which the Archdiocese said will likely take months.
Check this out from JAMA: Fair Allocation of Scarce CAR T-Cell Therapies for Relapsed/Refractory Multiple Myeloma I imagine this is of interest to practically nobody, but it's right in my strike zone. So let's see what it says: A 2023 study of centers offering CAR T-cell therapy for multiple myeloma found that for every allocated ...continue reading "Did I receive CAR-T treatment because of white privilege?"
A federal judge has refused to dismiss a lawsuit alleging an Iowa newspaper publisher violated customers’ privacy rights through information sharing with Facebook. The Iowa-based newspaper chain Lee Enterprises, owner of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, is facing a potential class-action lawsuit alleging it has shared readers’ personal information, including the videos they watch on Lee […]
As you may recall from Saturday, the four researchers who wrote "The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2" initially believed that it was quite possible—maybe even likely—that the COVID virus originated in a lab leak. One of the big reasons for this belief was the existence of a furin cleavage site in the virus genome, something that ...continue reading "Here’s why a lab leak of COVID seemed unlikely even in 2020"
Jevon Westoland hosts Off the Wall: Open Mic! MX Movies & Bar will be serving up a full bar, kitchen items, and of course fresh popcorn while you enjoy
Missouri Gov. Mike Parson has denied a clemency request from a man scheduled to be executed for the 2002 death of a 6-year-old girl in St. Louis County.
There’s a nursing crisis going on in the St. Louis area and across the country. Nurses are leaving the profession in record numbers, and it’s impacting how we’re all cared for when we need help.
“This is where you're going to have all of our patients that are in the beds," said Makenzie Buescher, a nursing student at Missouri Baptist University, showing us what her typical day is like.
She is one of the first fast-tracked nursing classes at Missouri Baptist University, where students passionate…
A new law exempts qualifying supplies from all state and local sales taxes during Missouri's tax-free weekend. Illinois, however, won't have a tax holiday this year.
It has been a busy day for Arkansas. Pornhub.com geo-blocked IP addresses in Arkansas in the latest protest against unworkable age verification laws. Arkansas is the fifth state to have an age-gating statute enter force and is the fourth to be geo-blocked by the parent company of Pornhub, the Montréal-based firm MindGeek owned by Ethical Capital […]
A red light for Yellow Corp. After nearly a century of business in the United States, the freight carrier is shutting down operations amid a standoff with the Teamsters union.
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