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St. Louis ends residency requirement for city employees

2 years 7 months ago
A more than century-old hiring practice in the city of St. Louis came to an end Monday, and Mayor Tishaura Jones hopes it will help fill the city’s more than 700 vacancies. Since the city’s charter passed in 1914, if you wanted to work for the city, you had to live in the city. The legislature changed that, and the residency requirement was permanently lifted Monday. Jones marked the moment with a press conference flanked by city employees to encourage people to apply for city jobs – giving…
Christine Byers

A Number of Tragedies

2 years 7 months ago

Laumeier Sculpture Park’s 2023 Visiting Artists in Residence are Pittsburgh-based artists Lenka Clayton and Phillip Andrew Lewis. This collaborative duo utilizes innovative approaches to conceptualism and minimalism to realize their […]

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Rachel Huffman

SATE's This Palpable Gross Play Is Laugh-Out-Loud Fun

2 years 7 months ago
Over the last several years, SATE, a.k.a. Slightly Askew Theatre Ensemble, has applied an inventive, fully connected approach to classic plays and literature, bringing a fresh, malleable perspective to works from Jane Austin, the Brontë sisters and Shakespeare. This Palpable Gross Play, a playful riff on the forest scenes in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, joins the company’s canon with wit, imagination and exuberance.
Tina Farmer

Pile of public records requests swells as Missouri AG works through stack from 2021

2 years 7 months ago

The Missouri attorney general’s office crossed an ignominious milestone last week.  Nearly nine months after taking office, Attorney General Andrew Bailey and his staff finally completed work on public records requests submitted in 2021.  “We fulfilled the last remaining open request from 2021, of which there were 18 when Attorney General Bailey came into office,” […]

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Jason Hancock