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Netflix To End DVD Rentals As Streaming Fails To Live Up To Its Full Potential

2 years 6 months ago
Netflix executives this week announced that they would finally be putting their traditional DVD rental service out to pasture starting on September 25 after 25 years of little, red envelopes. From a blog post by Netflix co-CEO Ted Serandos’ intern: Our goal has always been to provide the best service for our members but as […]
Karl Bode

Vacant Jamestown Mall site in north St. Louis County faces $12M demolition after it catches fire

2 years 6 months ago
Future plans for the old Jamestown Mall in north St. Louis County became clearer Thursday afternoon. The vacant shell at North Lindbergh Boulevard and Old Jamestown Road caught fire Wednesday night and two firefighters were injured while knocking it down. On Thursday, officials with the Black Jack Fire Department noted that the two firefighters were released from the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. The cause of Wednesday night's fire is still under investigation. The Port Authority…
Travis Cummings

18 years and counting: EPA still has no method for measuring CAFO air pollution

2 years 6 months ago

This story was originally published by Investigate Midwest.  When gases from large livestock facilities overwhelm communities, the health impacts can be severe. Children at schools near concentrated animal feeding operations, or CAFOs, are more likely to experience asthma. Exposure to ammonia and hydrogen sulfide — both emitted in large quantities by CAFOs — can lead to […]

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Madison McVan

Guns and vigilantes: Fear, paranoia has created a culture of violence

2 years 6 months ago

PUT THE GUN DOWN. It’s just the doorbell, the child is lost. PUT THE GUN DOWN. It’s just a car, doing a u-turn because they were lost. PUT THE GUN DOWN. She got into the wrong car by accident. PUT THE GUN DOWN. He didn’t mean to cut you off. PUT THE GUN DOWN. It […]

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Taylor Hirth

Despite animosity between legislature and MoDOT, I-70 funding moves forward

2 years 6 months ago

Republican legislators have unblinkingly voiced displeasure with the Missouri Department of Transportation during this year’s legislative session. With billions of dollars of surplus funds in the state treasury, lawmakers are considering how — or whether — to use a billion of those dollars to expand Interstate 70 — a priority in Gov. Mike Parson’s budget proposal. But […]

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Alyse Pfeil