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Ward Profiles Updated

2 years 5 months ago
As St. Louis City election returns come in, you can check your ward to see who legally bought access to the Board President and your new Alder here. Campaign finance laws are completely useless under a system that allows legal money laundering, and makes conflict of interest laws a moot point, and a culture of … Continue reading Ward Profiles Updated →
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The 404 Awards: Honoring The Worst Of The Worst Tech Policy Ideas

2 years 5 months ago
Today is April 4th, or 04/04 no matter which direction you use for showing dates (and, look, while it’s ingrained in my head, I think we can all admit that the US version of month/day/year is kinda weird.). But, error code 404 is (somewhat famously) the HTML code for “page not found.” In the early […]
Mike Masnick

Missouri History Museum crowns St. Louis as soccer capital of the U.S.

2 years 5 months ago
You would be hard pressed to talk about sports history without mentioning St. Louis — and that goes for soccer, too. St. Louis’ first Major League Soccer team is off to a record breaking first season, but City SC is far from the first notch in the region’s soccer timeline. Sam Moore, managing director of public history for the Missouri Historical Society, says St. Louis is justified to claim the title of first soccer capital in the U.S.

Happy Birthday, Maya Angelou!

2 years 5 months ago
On April 4, we celebrate the birthday and phenomenal life of the late American cultural icon, writer and performing artist Maya Angelou. Angelou was born Marguerite Annie Johnson in St. Louis, Missouri, on April 4, 1928. Like other writers whose…
Isaiah Peters | The St. Louis American