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Clarksville prepared to take action for moderate flooding

2 years 6 months ago
Mississippi River levels are causing major flooding in parts of Iowa and, as that water travels downstream, we will see some impacts in our region. The city of Clarksville, Missouri, is constructing a flood wall, but it won’t be finished for another two years.
Jaime Travers

ACLU, Lambda Legal Sue to Block Missouri Trans Health Care Order

2 years 6 months ago
A lawsuit filed today seeks to block Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey’s restrictions on transgender health care. The petition, filed in St. Louis County Court by Lambda Legal, the American Civil Liberties Union and Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner, seeks a temporary restraining order to halt the rules Bailey promulgated through an emergency order on April 13.
Monica Obradovic

Asylum seekers in St. Louis demand end to abuse and monitoring by ICE contractor

2 years 6 months ago
A protest on Monday in front of a nondescript office building just across the street from CityPark in St. Louis highlighted what a group of local asylum seekers says is mistreatment by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement contractor. Two asylum seekers share their experiences and we hear from the co-founder of Migrantes Unidos, a mutual support group for immigrants who have been forced to wear ankle monitors.