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Missouri Green Schools enriches learning and lives! Work through three pillars of a Green School - Environmental Impact, Health and Wellness and Sustainability Education - is drawing on the strengths of two terrific partners and their organizations:

     

Hope Gribble, Green Schools Manager for Missouri Gateway Green Building Council; and Lesli Moylan, Executive Director of Missouri Environmental Education Association. These two leaders and friends have grown a statewide program from St. Louis roots in the Green Schools Quest - with national recognition through U.S. Dept. of Education's Green Ribbon Schools.

     

This May, teams of students, teachers and professional volunteer mentors are presenting accomplishments in school gardening, gardening, energy efficiency - and more. Their story is a learning experience listeners will love. www.MissouriGreenSchools.org

Thanks to Andy Heaslet, Earthworms' audio engineer, and to Jon Valley, KDHX production wiz.

 

Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey's office removed an online tip line for reporting transgender health care concerns after detractors flooded the tip line with false reports. In a statement to the Riverfront Times, a spokesperson for Bailey's office said the online portal was "temporarily down" as the office investigates a potential "hack" into its system. "Far left activists are trying to impede parents' ability to shed light on what happened to their children," Madeline Sieren, the AG's spokesperson, wrote in an email.

When it comes to careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics [STEM] the numbers show a lack of Black professionals.

A 2-year-old boy, an 8-year-old girl and a 10-year-old girl were injured in the crash but their conditions were not released.

Centerstone, a nonprofit provider of behavioral health and addiction services, has promoted a new regional CEO for its Illinois operations.

As spring moves along with warmer temperatures and sporadic storms, your grass might be growing faster than usual.

St. Louis is among five cities that the National Urban League has chosen for a new initiative to support retail businesses owned by Black women.

AHM Group plans a new construction of an 18-unit apartment development on seven vacant lots on the 3000 block of Minnesota north of Arsenal in the Tower Grove East neighborhood. The architect is studioDVLP. The proposal consists of two two-story buildings fronting Minnesota meant to fit contextually with their surroundings each with six rowhouses. Two […]

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Washington University said Friday that allegations made in February by an ex-employee of its St. Louis transgender care center were "unsubstantiated."

While Thursday was the official day of 4/20, the celebration continues throughout the weekend with events scheduled all across Missouri.

There’s only a week left to go in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame fan vote, and it looks like some artists need to get a boost before voting…

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Earlier this year you may have heard that there were a few lawsuits filed over generative AI platforms, with two big cases targeting Stability AI, makers of Stable Diffusion, in particular. I’d been meaning to write about these cases, and why they’re so problematic, but things have been busy and I didn’t get a chance. […]

WASHINGTON —  Every public school kid in the United States was eligible for free school meals during the COVID-19 pandemic, regardless of family income, thanks to the federal government. While that’s now ended, a growing number of states across the country are enacting universal school meal laws to bolster child food security and academic equity. […]

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Allegations that physicians at the Transgender Center at St. Louis Children’s Hospital failed to inform patients of potential side effects of treatment and overlooked their mental health needs are “unsubstantiated,” according to an internal investigation conducted by Washington University and released Friday. Washington University oversees the Transgender Center and has been under fire since Jamie […]

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This is Hilbert licking an unfortunate lizard in our backyard. I don't know why, since neither of our cats ever shows any interest in actually eating a lizard. They just like to play with them. This one looks extremely dead, but no. After I hauled the cats indoors, he flipped over and made a getaway. ...continue reading "Friday Cat Blogging – 21 April 2023"

Today on TAP: Her recent speech reassuring Beijing was oddly soft-line and ill-timed.

Kenneth M. Smith was sentenced to 22 years in prison for the 2020 fatal stabbing of 26-year-old Jason Slater.

ALTON - Caleb Lewis with Alton Odyssey Tours discussed the company’s growth and all-new tour lineup for 2023 on an episode of Our Daily Show! on Riverbender.com . This year’s lineup will include the brand-new Prohibition Tour, “Behind the Bricks” Walking Tour, Historical Craft Beer Walk, and more. Lewis explained that when he and his fiancé bought the business from his mother, Marlene, he had a vision to expand the company beyond just doing haunted tours as they had before. “Even during our purchase agreement, I kind of mentioned that I was expecting the haunted business to be one section of our total portfolio moving forward,” Lewis said. “Traditionally, it’s only been a haunted tour business and I wanted to diversify it, so we really brought some new ideas to life.” This year’s tour lineup reflects that diversification as it dives less into the haunted side of Alton and more into the historical side. After doin

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