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Disney Gets A Nice Fat Tax Break For Making Its Streaming Catalog Worse

2 years 6 months ago
We just got done discussing how, as the streaming video space consolidates and grows, it’s starting to behave more and more like the unpopular, consolidated cable and broadcast companies they once disrupted. Cory Doctorow’s theory of enshittification has come to streaming, in a big way. Netflix now thinks password sharing is the devil. Streaming catalogs […]
Karl Bode

Virtual-first health plans: Faster, affordable care for your employees

2 years 6 months ago
Over the last several years, Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Missouri has been expanding access to care through telehealth, urging consumers to use this valuable tool as an entry point to care that is fast, easy and more affordable. In the early days of the pandemic, we worked with our care provider partners to rapidly meet the need for telehealth, which had become immediately necessary. As more of our care provider partners embraced the model of making virtual the first access point to care,…
Stephanie Vojicic

Elevate Well STL Combines Weed With Yoga

2 years 6 months ago
In a renovated apartment above Apotheosis Comics & Lounge, Sarah Fuhrmann starts a restorative yoga session with an affirmation. "You're not here to fix anything, find anything new or look for anything different," Fuhrmann says.
Monica Obradovic

St. Louis County Council considers plans to repair, replace Lawrence K. Roos building

2 years 6 months ago
St. Louis County residents may need to vote on a new property tax in the upcoming election. It’s all to pay for a new St. Louis County administration building or the significant repairs to keep the current one. The St. Louis County Council just heard the latest round of proposals on Project Cornerstone to either repair or replace the Lawrence K. Roos County Government Building at 41 S. Central Ave. in downtown Clayton. “This L.K. Roos administration building, the police headquarters and the…
Laura Barczewski

Lawmakers lament failure of bills aimed at addressing Missouri teacher shortage

2 years 6 months ago

After a blue ribbon commission spent much of 2022 crafting possible solutions for Missouri’s teacher shortage, education advocates entered the legislative session optimistic. And when Rep. Ed Lewis’ legislation raising the minimum teacher salary and creating a scholarship to incentivize teachers to work in hard-staff areas cleared the House in early April with only five […]

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Annelise Hanshaw

Così Fan Tutte Is Fantastic, Flirtatious Comic Opera Fun

2 years 6 months ago
While Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is known for composing some of the most beautifully textured and artistically pleasing operas of his time, many don’t realize that his subject matter was often much less elevated than his scores. Such is the case with the bawdy, comic opera Così fan tutte.
Tina Farmer

‘That’s when he raped me’: Survivors of clergy abuse in Missouri screen documentary

2 years 6 months ago

OVERLAND PARK, Kansas — When Joe Eldred was a child, he was sexually abused by three Catholic priests while attending Nativity of Mary Catholic Church and the accompanying elementary school in Independence, Missouri. Eldred told his story in “Procession,” a documentary directed by Robert Greene that tells the story of six men who were abused […]

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Sam Bailey