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Demolition begins on old Berkeley City Hall

2 years 8 months ago
The city of Berkeley is about to look different, as the city's redevelopment plan gets into full swing. Monday morning, demolition began on the old Berkeley City Hall building at 6140 N. Hanley Road. City leaders claimed the demolition signifies a "pivotal moment" for Berkeley's urban landscape. The city has its new city hall up and running off Airport Road. "It's a very exciting day to me and, it's been a long coming," Mayor Babatunde Deinbo said. This is all a part of a "transformative journey,"…
Mercedes Mackay

Soccer league organizers accused of stealing thousands of dollars from organization

2 years 8 months ago
Three people associated with the Troy Soccer League, including two organizers, were charged last week with stealing thousands of dollars from the organization over several years. Lincoln County prosecutors charged Donna Gail Vickrey and Erica Jean Kellock with one felony count each of stealing $25,000 or more. Uriah Franklin Hayes, a concession stand contractor, was charged with one felony count of stealing $750 or more. From 2018 to February 2023, Vickrey was the Troy Soccer League's president…
Kelsi Anderson

St. Louis Police Hit a Church Sign —- And Then Covered Their Tracks

2 years 8 months ago
When the Rev. Mark Miller discovered that the century-old welcome sign in front of his church had been destroyed last August, he initially assumed it was vandalism. It wouldn't have been the first time Westminster Presbyterian Church was targeted. Just a year before, in fact, more than a dozen windows and a door on the church building in St. Louis' Skinker-DeBaliviere neighborhood had been broken.
Sarah Fenske

Crybaby Mark McCloskey Wets His Pants Over Black National Anthem

2 years 8 months ago
Disgraced lawyer and perennial loser Mark McCloskey has never met an exhausting culture-war talking point he didn't like, nor a ridiculously racist remark he wouldn't espouse, and so it's no surprise that he completely soaked his diaper yesterday upon learning about Andra Day's performance of the 19th-century hymn "Lift Every Voice and Sing" at the Super Bowl on Sunday. The failed Senate candidate and current host of Mark McCloskey on Fire, the title of which unfortunately is just a turn of phrase and does not literally describe the format of the radio show (hey, I'd listen), took to Twitter on Monday afternoon to pontificate on how Black people should no longer have voting rights in the United States, among other things. "If African Americans have their own national anthem, then that means they have their own nation, so if they are not part of the USA they shouldn't be getting any US benefits: no Medicare/Medicaid, no social security payments, no Obama care, no food stamps, no housing assistance, etc.
Daniel Hill

Democrats block vote on initial petition process

2 years 8 months ago
The Missouri Senate begins a heated debate on a proposal to make constitutional amendments more challenging to pass. The same process that put recreational marijuana on the ballot is now being used to try to secure abortion rights, but Senate Republicans want to make it harder for voters to amend the Constitution.
Laura Simon

Push for restrictions on intoxicating hemp products spurs clash over who should regulate

2 years 8 months ago

Missouri lawmakers have heard hours of heated testimony at two hearings in the last week over bills aiming to regulate intoxicating hemp products that get people high the same as marijuana. Currently there’s no state or federal law saying teenagers or children can’t buy products, such as delta-8 drinks, or that stores can’t sell them […]

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Rebecca Rivas