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Piracy Is Surging Again Because Streaming Execs Ignored The Lessons Of The Past

2 years 9 months ago
Back in 2019 we noted how the streaming sector risked driving consumers back to piracy if they didn’t heed the lessons of the past. We explored how the rush to raise rates, nickel-and-dime users, implement arbitrary restrictions, and force users toward hunting and pecking their way through a confusing platter of exclusives and availability windows […]
Karl Bode

State representative shunned by Democrats launches campaign for Missouri governor

2 years 9 months ago
A Democratic state representative booted from her party’s caucus because of her association with a man described as a Holocaust denier and another called a conspiracy theorist is running for governor. State Rep. Sarah Unsicker of Shrewsbury went to Washington, D.C., and announced her bid for Missouri’s highest office in front of the U.S. Capitol. “What is happening in Missouri is a global emergency,” Unsicker said in a news release. “There is no justice in our courts. Our politicians…
Rudi Keller

Das Bevo owners to redevelop another historic building

2 years 9 months ago
Pat and Carol Schuchard — the husband-and-wife duo behind historic event venues including Boo Cat Club, Das Bevo and Majorette — this fall plan to open their newest venue in a former Catholic church and adjacent rectory in the city’s The Gate District neighborhood.
Connor Hart

Group of Republican lawmakers raise concerns about Missouri death penalty

2 years 9 months ago

A group of Republican lawmakers raised concerns about the death penalty and advocated for legislation that  would abolish it in Missouri during a Tuesday press conference at the state Capitol — characterizing it as an issue of restraining government overreach and protecting life.  Rep. Chad Perkins, a Republican from Bowling Green, has filed legislation to […]

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Clara Bates

St. Louis Couple Busted After She Helps Him Rob a Man She Spent the Night With

2 years 9 months ago
St. Louis Police have busted a 27-year-old north county woman who helped set up an accomplice to rob the man she’d spent the night with — and her 32-year-old accomplice also now faces charges. Court records say the woman spent the night at an apartment in the city’s Academy neighborhood, leaving the door unlocked when she left the next day so her accomplice could rob the person living there.
Ryan Krull

You Could Be the Next Owner of a Fine St. Louis Pretzel Shop

2 years 9 months ago
Soft pretzels are a crowd pleaser, and St. Louis' Pretzel Pretzel undeniably turns out some of the best: pillow-soft, golden and jazzed up with just the right amount of salt, according to the RFT's dining critic Cheryl Baehr. And believe, us, she knows. "Pretzels are happy food," co-founder Damon Daher told the RFT in 2017, and we concur.
Jessica Rogen

Immigration negotiations in Congress center on parole, asylum policy

2 years 9 months ago

WASHINGTON —  A deal on changes to immigration policy remained elusive on Tuesday for top U.S. Senate negotiators. Those leading the talks — Sens. James Lankford, Republican of Oklahoma, Chris Murphy, Democrat of Connecticut and Kyrsten Sinema, independent of Arizona — have worked for weeks to strike a deal between the White House and Senate […]

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Ariana Figueroa