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Ohio’s Jordan the latest U.S. House GOP nominee for speaker after days of turmoil

2 years 6 months ago

WASHINGTON — U.S. House Republicans on Friday put forward their second nominee this week for speaker, though lawmakers departed Capitol Hill for the weekend without unifying enough to hold a floor vote and with a highly uncertain outcome when they return. Ohio Republican Rep. Jim Jordan won the conference nomination in a closed meeting, defeating […]

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Ashley Murray

Great River Greenways presents new bike route through Maplewood

2 years 6 months ago
Representatives of Great Rivers Greenway at the Maplewood City Council meeting on Tuesday presented the progress of the planned bike and pedestrian route to run through Maplewood on Oxford, Sussex, Greenwood and Cantebury avenues. The presentation included slides showing that the planned route along Greenwood has changed from the north to the south side of […]
Doug Miner

Officer’s Body Cam Recording Helps Get Him Stripped Of Immunity By Appeals Court

2 years 6 months ago
Body cameras can’t possibly solve all the problems of current US law enforcement. No single thing can. But even though body cameras have so far proven more useful to prosecutors than lawsuit litigants and accountability efforts, that doesn’t mean they’re mostly useless. They’re still capable of creating incontrovertible evidence. That’s why prosecutors love them, even […]
Tim Cushing

How one St. Louisan shares her Nigerian culture in ‘Jollof Rice with Grandma’

2 years 6 months ago
Vanessa Okwuraiwe was born in the United Kingdom, went to school in Nigeria, and moved to St. Louis several years ago for work in the financial services industry. She’s now the author of the new children’s book “Jollof Rice with Grandma,” which focuses on 6-year-old Ada, who learns to make a classic West African dish when her grandparents visit from Nigeria. Okwuraiwe talks about the book, its characters and the diversity among Nigerians in St. Louis.