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Missouri politics in 2022 featured a little bit of everything: High-stakes elections, nasty legislative fights and landmark court decisions. And all of the storylines that defined 2022 stoked enough contention and conflict to likely affect events in 2023 and beyond. So as we always do this time of year, the STLPR politics team counts down the stories that defined the last 12 months.

I was browsing around this evening and ran across a piece from Glenn Greenwald in which he complains that a clip from his streaming news show was removed from TikTok—apparently because he called Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky a "corrupt, authoritarian oligarch." Glenn goes on to suggest that this might have happened due to influence from ...continue reading "TikTok offers to let US agencies oversee content moderation"

A St. Louis County judge is stepping down to become a top aide to newly appointed Attorney General Andrew Bailey.

More flights were canceled and delayed at St. Louis Lambert International Airport on Wednesday.

About 10,000 unclaimed checked bags are expected to be moved from St. Louis Lambert International Airport baggage claim into an off-site warehouse.

Within the last eight years, 15 hospitals have closed in Missouri, most of them in rural areas. 

A maker of medical equipment that in October said it had 146 full-time workers now says it will close its St. Louis plant and lay off 160 employees, citing "ongoing losses from operations."

Airport chaos continues Wednesday while the number of cancellations on Southwest Airlines has decreased slightly, the luggage continues to pile up.

Rikers Island doesn’t just house the convicted. It also houses those merely accused of crimes who are awaiting trial. The difference between the two doesn’t matter much to those staffing Rikers. If you’re there, you’re no longer a human being. For years, the jail has been mismanaged, which is a really kind word for a […]

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On Wednesday, a Missouri court ruled that the state must reimburse Planned Parenthood organizations after the state previously refused to pay for non-abortion health services for Medicaid customers.

For those of you who have heard about Tesla's plummeting stock price and wonder what's going on, a quick look at their history might clear things up: Tesla was not always a crazy unicorn stock. For ten years it just slowly burbled along. Then, for some reason, it exploded at the beginning of the pandemic. ...continue reading "Tesla is just a car company"

Some of the lost luggage had to be transferred to another site.

The International Institute of St. Louis will open the Anna E. Crosslin Multicultural Center for Excellence in January to encourage people in the region to connect with those of other cultures.