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New poll shows broad support in Missouri for gun controls, school safety measures

2 years 6 months ago

Missourians of all races, classes and political persuasions want safer schools and stricter gun laws, according to a poll released Thursday. The latest St. Louis University YouGov poll shows support ranging from 63% to 83% for policies that include metal detectors, dedicated police officers, pre-approval of visitors and video security systems in schools. The survey […]

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Rudi Keller

Hackers Claim To Have Breached T-Mobile More Than 100 Times Last Year

2 years 6 months ago
Back in January, we noted that T-Mobile had recently revealed it had been hacked eight times over the last five years. But a new report by security expert Brian Krebs suggests it could be far worse than that. According to Krebs, hackers are making a compelling case that they’ve managed to compromise the wireless giant’s […]
Karl Bode

U.S. Senate Democrats back FAA nominee, despite GOP attacks at confirmation hearing

2 years 6 months ago

Republicans on a U.S. Senate panel raised several objections Wednesday to President Joe Biden’s pick to lead the Federal Aviation Administration, while Democrats indicated their support and called the objections “fake scandals” meant only to create a political controversy. The Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee’s confirmation hearing for Phil Washington, CEO of Denver International Airport, […]

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Jacob Fischler

Review: Lousies Serves Flawless Loose Meat Sandwiches

2 years 6 months ago
My dad loved Mark Twain, though I suspect his semi-regular insistence on day trips to Hannibal had more to do with ground beef than Mr. Clemens' wit. The evidence for this was our ritual stop at the Mark Twain Dinette before doing any other activities. An institution dating back to the early 1940s, the dinette was known for a lot of things — its status as the city's oldest restaurant, its location next to Twain's boyhood home and its homemade root beer — but the eatery's biggest claims to fame were its Maid-Rites, a hamburger-adjacent concoction that's generically known as a loose meat sandwich, which consists of seasoned ground beef tucked into a basic burger bun and classically dressed with pickles and yellow mustard.
Cheryl Baehr