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Advantage Capital's Empower the Change Fund makes 1st investment to help close 'racial wealth gap'
Advantage Capital has made its first investment from a fund created to provide capital to minority-owned businesses with the goal of helping to “close the racial wealth gap," officials said.
St. Louis Circuit Attorney's office adds more former prosecutors to top positions
Steven Capizzi, a former city prosecutor, will serve as the office's Chief Warrant Officer. Terry O'Toole, who worked with Gore in private practice, was hired as a senior adviser.
Hospital association president: Missouri’s health care staffing shortages will improve
MHA President and CEO Jon Doolittle said this week that staffing shortages will improve, "even though we've got a big hill still to climb."
Business group Greater St. Louis Inc. teams up with nonprofit to 'reimagine' annual St. Louis marathon
A tragic event steered Amelia Mugavero to TV news
As Amelia Mugavero walked into the Fox2 studio, ready to take on another day, she knew she had found her place in the world of journalism.
David Lee Roth shares solo take on “Atomic Punk,” Sammy Hagar releases live version of “When It’s Love”
David Lee Roth has once again shared a new take on a classic Van Halen track. The latest song he’s decided to tackle is “Atomic Punk,” which originally appeared on the band's 1978 self-titled…
MoDOT: Manchester Rd. in Maplewood and Brentwood to be completed in July
Missouri Department of Transportation communications specialist, Andrew Gates, has sent a June 2023 update on the department’s work on Manchester Road. Maplewood and Brentwood should be wrapped up by the second week of July, with a few exceptions, he says. Over the next month, crews will be wrapping up resurfacing and striping Route 100 (Manchester […]
Reporting Mandates Likely The Reason Behind The FBI’s Sudden Drop-Off In Section 702 Abuses
Earlier this month, we reported (via Charlie Savage of the New York Times) that the FBI had finally delivered its first reduction in Section 702 abuses in the entirety of its access to this particular NSA collection. The upstream collection touches a tremendous amount of foreign communications. It also captures communications from US persons communicating […]
'This carwash thing is a nightmare': Glendale residents push against dealership car wash proposal
Friday Cat Blogging – 2 June 2023
This is not the best catblogging picture ever, but it is brand new. No archival stuff this week. I'm home and taking fresh pictures once again.
False Equivalence
Today on TAP: Why does the mainstream media keep depicting lunatic-right Republicans and normal Democrats as equidistant from the center?
St. Louis man charged after girlfriend's 11-year-old son fatally shoots himself
Tracy Smith and the boy's mother told officers the child had autism and would get into things and frequently watch TV in the room where the gun was apparently kept.
St. Louis aldermen consider making it easier to build 'granny flats'
Americans built reams of the smaller dwellings behind larger homes in their cities in the decades before World War II.
Missouri professor not guilty by reason of insanity in stabbing death of colleague
Edward Gutting was charged with first-degree murder in the 2016 killing of Marc Cooper inside Cooper’s Springfield home.
Connecticut Man Declares Himself Most Hated Man in St. Louis
In truth, most of you probably have no idea who Tod Robberson is. Or was. Dude was from Dallas and spent just a few short years here before hightailing it off to Connecticut.
Boeing owned T-38A Talon flying around the Metro area today
Illinois State Fair concert box office now open
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- The Illinois State Fair is just over two months away, and now you can finally buy grandstand tickets in-person. The box office will be open Monday to Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Some of the performances include Old Dominion, Alanis Morissette, and Tim Mcgraw. The 2023 Illinois state fair runs [...]
BLK MKT Eats Maplewood?
MSD sues Paul McKee's NorthSide, which also owes $646K in back taxes
The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District is pursuing Paul McKee's NorthSide Regeneration in court over unpaid fees, as the North City landholder also owes the government hundreds of thousands of dollars in delinquent property taxes.
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