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Today on TAP: As the China menace keeps ballooning, the House Select Committee on China appears to be a serious undertaking.

St. Louis City School Board candidates needed their own page in addition to inclusion in New Ward Profiles. You can now find Profiles for the three School Board candidates here. The School Board is elected at-large in citywide elections, not by district/ward. The next School Board election is April 4th. In this election, the top … Continue reading 2023 School Board Candidate Profiles →

WEBSTER GROVES, Mo. -- A threat posted to social media has put Webster Groves High School on lockout. This means that no one can enter or leave the building but classes will proceed as scheduled. The school district says that the lockout is to keep the school safe for students and staff. The school and [...]

In the Washington Monthly today, Keith Humphreys puts up this chart: Keith probably doesn't know this, but one of my pet peeves is using homicide as a proxy for violent crime. So I redrew the chart with the same countries but using violent crime rates instead of murder rates: Guatemala is now an ideal country, ...continue reading "In the US, both crime and incarceration are too high"

It's not every day that St. Louis and Chicago agree to a mutually beneficial trade.

The promotions align with the firm’s core value of “removing barriers to success and promoting equity,” according to the firm's CEO.

With everything going on in the headlines, from Russia and Ukraine threatening nuclear war to a probable Chinese surveillance balloon hovering over the northern US on Thursday night, let's revisit a 1983 film called "The Day After."

A Missouri Senate committee will consider a bill tomorrow that seeks to ban school officials from discussing gender identity or sexual orientation — a bill that goes even further than the Florida bill it was modeled upon. Senate Bill 134 would bar nurses, counselors, teachers and other school personnel at public or charter schools from discussing gender identity or sexual orientation with minor students.

The retailer is hiring 130 full-time and part-time positions for the new Sunset Hills location.

Carlos Santana is extending his residency in Las Vegas. The 75-year-old Rock & Roll Hall of Famer and his band have just added a string of fall dates at the House of Blues inside…

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URBANA – Love. Amor. Aimer. Liebe. Milovat. A red rose. Six different languages, all expressing the same emotion. Floriography is the forgotten language or secret language of flowers. Throughout history, including the Victorian Era and many cultures including the Persians have used flowers to send secret messages to others. Nowadays, many people use flowers to convey emotions but rely on florists to translate emotion into flowers. Flowers in a bouquet are like words or phrases in a sentence. Each one can convey a different part of the message or emotion but are you sure your flowers are sending the right message? When thinking about luck, people often think of the four-leaf clover, however, there are other flowers representing luck. Since Victorian times, Bells of Ireland have been considered a symbol of good luck, the perfect flower to send to someone who is starting a new job or moving to a new home. Shamrocks are a symbol of good luck and fortune. Myrtle at a wedding means

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EDWARDSVILLE – A new Chick-fil-A ® restaurant will begin serving the Edwardsville community on Thursday, Feb. 9, 2023. Chick-fil-A, Inc. has selected Phillip Brunner as the independent franchised Owner/Operator of Chick-fil-A Edwardsville. Located at 2319 Troy Road, near the Edwardsville Marketplace shopping mall, Chick-fil-A Edwardsville will be open for dine-in, drive-thru, and carry-out from 6:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday through Saturday. Guests of Chick-fil-A Edwardsville can place an order for pickup, dine-in, or drive-thru on the Chick-fil-A ® App or online . When joining the Chick-fil-A One ® tiered membership program, guests receive points on every qualifying purchase, which can be used to redeem available rewards. The Edwardsville restaurant joins 22 other Chick-fil-A restaurants serving the wider St. Louis market. Locally Owned and Operated As full-time, hands-on leaders in their restaurants and communities, Chick-fil-A Owner/Operators proudly

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EDWARDSVILLE - The Lincoln School Alumni Foundation has generously provided Edwardsville Community Unit School District #7 with funding to employ a part-time home-school liaison. The liaison will be responsible for working collaboratively with families and community partners to ensure the needs of the whole child are being met, while supporting parents/guardians in addressing family needs, social/emotional and academic needs of the student in the home setting, as well as partnering with the educators serving the child. “Part of the Lincoln School Alumni Foundation’s mission is to help under resourced students across the district. Their generosity enables the district to help provide additional resources and opportunities to students who need it the most,” said District #7 Superintendent Dr. Patrick Shelton. “The historic Lincoln School Alumni Foundation is very much aware of District #7’s effort to improve our students’ reading skills,”

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NEW YORK (AP) — Middle seats at many U.S. movie theaters just got more expensive. AMC Theaters, the nation's largest movie theater chain, on Monday unveiled a new pricing scheme in which seat location determines how much your movie ticket costs. Seats in the middle of the auditorium will cost a dollar or two more, [...]

For the third consecutive year, as part of Black History Month in February, Schnuck Markets, Inc. will offer customers the opportunity to “Round Up at the Register” to support the Urban League.

Chick-fil-A will open a new restaurant in Edwardsville this week, bringing more than 120 new full- and part-time jobs to the community.

Netflix’s password sharing crackdown hasn’t even launched yet in the States, but is already a public relations mess. The plan is to try to force Netflix customers to pay an extra $2-$3 every month for service for any users using your credentials outside of the home. An accidentally leaked Netflix help guide last week indicated […]

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“Folks are taking notice of what states (including Missouri) are doing to push back against China and their continued aggression,” Senate President Caleb Rowden said.