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Complaints stack up about not hearing tornado sirens

2 years 7 months ago
Powerful storms didn't just leave damage across the metro area, but frustration and worry across parts of the City of St. Louis and St. Louis County as well, as some residents complained the outdoor warning siren never went off.
Mitch McCoy

PERSPECTIVE: 45 Years of “Good Faith” Efforts to Put Women on Jobsites Reach Day of Reckoning

2 years 7 months ago
by Tom Finan, Executive Director/Co-Founder, Construction Forum On April 7th we “celebrated” the 45th anniversary of the Executive Order that dictated that the percentage of tradeswomen be set at 6.9% on federally-funded jobs. I use “celebrated” in quotations because in all those years we’ve never reached that high a number. That’s about to change. But […]
Tom Finan

Judge threatens Kim Gardner with contempt of court after attorney no-shows murder trial

2 years 7 months ago
There are three attorneys now juggling close to 500 felony cases in the St. Louis circuit attorney’s office, so what’s happening to the cases assigned to those who have recently resigned or taken abrupt leaves of absence? Two of three murder trials did not proceed Monday. One resulted in a judge giving St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner seven days to tell him why she shouldn’t be put in jail, pay a fine or both for being in contempt of court after no one from her office showed up for…
Christine Byers

Planned Parenthood has pop-up clinics for patients seeking gender-affirming care

2 years 7 months ago
Planned Parenthood hosted three pop-up clinics for new patients seeking gender-affirming care on Monday.  One was in the Central West End in St. Louis, another in Fairview Heights, Illinois, and the other in Springfield, Missouri. It was in response to a recent emergency regulation on gender transitioning from Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey. Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey put a timer on last week when he said new restrictions on gender-affirming care are coming including restrictions…
Justina Coronel