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CLEVELAND — Ohioans over the last century have used the state’s ballot initiative process to pass constitutional amendments that raised the minimum wage, integrated the National Guard and removed the phrase “white male” from the constitution’s list of voter eligibility requirements. Now, lawmakers want to make it much tougher for an initiative to be approved. […]

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CHICAGO - Attorney General Kwame Raoul, with 19 attorneys general, filed legal arguments in a lawsuit challenging Idaho’s restrictive law making it a crime for adults to help minors travel outside of Idaho, where abortion is banned, for abortion care. In the amicus brief , Raoul and the coalition argue that Idaho’s law not only endangers minors from Idaho, it also seeks to punish other states’ medical providers and residents for helping them access lawful abortion care outside of Idaho’s borders. In Illinois, the right to choose an abortion is a fundamental right , including for individuals who are under 18 years of age. “We, unfortunately, continue to see increased efforts in other states to restrict access to or criminalize abortion. It’s not enough for these anti-abortion states to ban access within their own borders. Idaho’s law is an unconstitutional attempt to chill access to abortion in safe haven states, like Illinois,” Raoul

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A Missouri nurse who stole fentanyl left behind at a hospital while working has been sentenced to three years of probation.

These overdue charges take us only partway back to functioning democracy.

Light and windows are deeply intertwined with my work as a ceramicist and photographer. My porcelain hand-built sculptures blend an organic and contemporary style that takes shape using a traditional

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The St. Louis Artists’ Guild would like to present Tales by Light, a national juried photography exhibit featuring photographers using various photographic techniques to showcase how light can impact your

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In celebration of 10 years of serving the arts community in St. Louis, Green Door Art Gal-lery is pleased to present Secret St. Louis, Hidden Gems of the Gateway City.

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Spirits Roaming on the Earth maps conceptual artist Jacolby Satterwhite’s extraordinary creative trajectory across multiple materials, genres and modes of thinking.   Drawing on a broad set of real and

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Action/Abstraction Redefined: Modern Native Art, 1940s–1970s, is the first ticketed exhibition at the Saint Louis Art Museum to focus on modern Native American art. Expanding the narrative of mid-century abstraction,

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St. Louis is a kaleidoscope of architecture, filled with structures of every age, shape, and size. In Coloring STL, Missouri History Museum visitors will interact with these fascinating buildings in

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Libraries, community centers, and other buildings are getting air-filtration upgrades so residents can stay safe during hazardous smoke.

The Melvin Price Locks and Dam in Alton has closed to all commercial and recreational traffic after engineers learned of a concerning crack in one of the lock chamber's lift gates.

One St. Louis County councilwoman is considering legislation to combat concerns of gun violence.

Historic charm and modern finishes are part of the deal.

If your idea of theater is limited to people with British accents making overly serious speeches, or (even worse) Broadway-style blowouts with full chorus lines of fake felines, you really need to get to St. Lou Fringe. Inspired by the massively popular Fringe Festival begun in Edinburgh in 1947, St. Louis' annual DIY theater festival is both edgy and experimental, racy and riotous, sobering and silly.

The new North American leg of the Mötley Crüe/Def Leppard stadium tour kicks off Saturday, August 5, in Syracuse, New York, but during the brief downtime the band got between tour legs, Nikki…

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Fiber broadband is spreading across the country like a rapidly expanding network of tree roots, passing under more communities every day. Fiber providers reached 7.9 million additional homes in the U.S. in 2022 — the highest annual deployment ever, according to the Fiber Broadband Association’s most recent survey of providers. There are now 68 million fiber broadband passings in the U.S., 13% more than a year ago and 27% more than two years prior. The association expects even higher levels…

As heat waves sweep across the Midwest, incarcerated people in Missouri are increasingly afraid of the rising temperatures inside prisons. They live in concrete buildings that retain heat. People share close quarters, making cooling all the more difficult. As Earth’s temperatures reach their hottest recorded numbers this summer, people incarcerated in Missouri’s prisons describe conditions […]

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