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Air quality alert for St. Louis from Canadian wildfire smoke

2 years 6 months ago
ST. LOUIS -- Dense smoke that has been dropping south from Canada has made it into the St. Louis area. Visibility dropped to between 2-3 miles from the Canadian wildfire smoke. A warm front moving in today will help kick the thickest smoke to the east by afternoon. The worst of the smoke will be [...]
Angela Hutti

Black Missourians Fear Cannabis Microbusiness Licenses Will Fail Them

2 years 6 months ago
Jermasa Johnson-Dees has big plans. After operating a cannabis cuisine and edibles business, STL Spacetreats, Johnson-Dees hopes to someday open a dispensary under the same name in Missouri. That's why she plans to apply for one of Missouri's new microbusiness dispensary licenses, made possible by the 2022 constitutional amendment that legalized recreational marijuana in the state.
Monica Obradovic

Missouri holds outreach events in run up to cannabis microbusiness license lottery

2 years 6 months ago

Missouri’s cannabis industry is the new “gold rush,” said St. Louis couple Tiffany and Anwar Lee, and they’re considering buying a ticket for the lottery to get in. Their ticket is a $1,500 application fee for a spot in a lottery making them eligible for a limited number of cannabis microbusiness licenses, and it’s refundable […]

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Rebecca Rivas

Russian chaos: The puppets almost take Moscow

2 years 6 months ago

In the Winter of 1993, I was fortunate to travel to Russia as a graduate student at Marquette University with several other students. Unfortunately, we arrived in the aftermath of a Russian coup attempt, where chaos reigned as the country lurched toward 1994. And that was even before the invasion of Chechnya. To outsiders, and […]

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John A. Tures

How Arizona stands between tribes and their water

2 years 6 months ago
As it negotiates water rights with tribes, Arizona goes to unique lengths to extract concessions that limit tribes’ opportunities for growth and economic development, according to a ProPublica and High Country News investigation.
Umar Farooq

The Post-Ozempic Gold Rush

2 years 6 months ago
So much energy is going into developing effective weight loss pills, while hundreds of lifesaving medications remain in shortage.
David Dayen