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We’ve long noted how entrenched broadband providers have historically refused to upgrade areas that don’t deliver immediate, favorable returns (quite often poor, minority, and low income neighborhoods). That, combined with a monopoly assault on competition and regulatory oversight in most markets, has left the U.S. with patchy, substandard broadband networks we’re still struggling to track […]

Anti-diversity budget language called a “job killer” by the Missouri Chamber of Commerce didn’t survive the Senate Appropriations Committee Wednesday, as the panel wrapped up its work on the state spending plan for the coming year. Over two days of work, the committee added more than $3 billion to the House-approved budget for state operations in the coming fiscal year. The biggest items added Wednesday were $300 million for the Department of Mental Health to build a new psychiatric hospital…

A few weeks ago, my significant other made a comment that shook me to my core and had me questioning whether or not he was doing well. An East Coast expat who takes every opportunity to lament the foods he left behind, he casually mentioned one afternoon that he'd gone through the Starbucks drive-thru that morning and ordered a bagel with cream cheese.

The restaurant serves a range of elevated comfort food in the former Craft Eats & Drinks space in Schnucks Wildwood Crossing.

One person was hurt in a car crash in south St. Louis City early Thursday morning.

Ferguson has canceled an endangered person advisory for a 15-year-old girl who was last seen Wednesday afternoon.

Missouri represents an interesting perspective for the vote of Tennessee’s House to expel two of its members for disrupting a legislative session trying to highlight firearm issues. As far as I can discover, Missouri has expelled just two House members in the state’s long history. The first was in 1865 when Rep. John Sampson was […]

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Dozens of East St. Louis crime victims plan to travel to the Illinois State Capitol Thursday.

The EPA agrees to appoint a coordinator to address flooding and sewer issues that have plagued Cahokia Heights for years.

An 18-year-old was shot overnight in north St. Louis City.

Windy and warm to start Thursday.

In early March, St. Louis mayor Tishaura Jones signed the Safer Streets Bill, which pledged $40 million in American Rescue Plan Act funds to redesign city streets and implement traffic-calming measures such as medians, bigger sidewalks, and traffic c

Deep in the Peruvian Amazon, the Shipibo people are battling conservation authorities to reclaim management of their land.

"I've called several times since last year to address the problem," Committeeman Anthony Bell said.

Fossil fuel-backed groups say offshore wind hurts whales. But some Republicans still embrace the industry's economic benefits.

The American Lung Association finds that U.S. air quality is improving, but wildfires, drought, and inequality threaten progress.

The Rolling Stones and the Beach Boys are just a couple of the artists being featured on Project Brazen and PRX’s new podcast Night of Show.  The podcast features never-before-heard stories about A-list music stars from those…

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