We’ve long noted how entrenched broadband providers have historically refused to upgrade areas that don’t deliver immediate, favorable returns (quite often poor, minority, and low income neighborhoods). That, combined with a monopoly assault on competition and regulatory oversight in most markets, has left the U.S. with patchy, substandard broadband networks we’re still struggling to track […]
Anti-diversity budget language called a “job killer” by the Missouri Chamber of Commerce didn’t survive the Senate Appropriations Committee Wednesday, as the panel wrapped up its work on the state spending plan for the coming year.
Over two days of work, the committee added more than $3 billion to the House-approved budget for state operations in the coming fiscal year. The biggest items added Wednesday were $300 million for the Department of Mental Health to build a new psychiatric hospital…
A few weeks ago, my significant other made a comment that shook me to my core and had me questioning whether or not he was doing well. An East Coast expat who takes every opportunity to lament the foods he left behind, he casually mentioned one afternoon that he'd gone through the Starbucks drive-thru that morning and ordered a bagel with cream cheese.
Missouri represents an interesting perspective for the vote of Tennessee’s House to expel two of its members for disrupting a legislative session trying to highlight firearm issues. As far as I can discover, Missouri has expelled just two House members in the state’s long history. The first was in 1865 when Rep. John Sampson was […]
In early March, St. Louis mayor Tishaura Jones signed the Safer Streets Bill, which pledged $40 million in American Rescue Plan Act funds to redesign city streets and implement traffic-calming measures such as medians, bigger sidewalks, and traffic c