Three years after taking the dual role of MU chancellor and UM System president, Mun Choi’s pay package has quietly approached $1 million through decisions made in a series of closed-door curators meetings. An attorney who works with Missouri open meetings law argued decisions on Choi’s salary should be made in public. In 2020, the […]
People across the U.S. say the Missouri Higher Education Loan Authority, or MOHELA, takes hours to answer calls, has failed for a year-plus to make progress on loan forgiveness applications.
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court announced Wednesday it will hear oral arguments and decide whether broad access to the abortion pill can remain legal across the United States. The justices’ decision to hear the case this term will put abortion access and the politics that comes with it back in front of the nation’s highest court […]
GRANITE CITY – The Illinois Department of Transportation announced today that repairs on eastbound Interstate 270 between Illinois 3 and Riverview Drive in Missouri will require lane closures starting, weather permitting, at 9 p.m., Friday, Dec. 15. One lane will always remain open. All lanes will reopen by 5 a.m. Monday, Dec. 18. Motorists should expect delays and are encouraged to use alternate routes during this closure. Drivers are urged to reduce speed, be alert for changing conditions, obey all construction signage, and refrain from using mobile devices while approaching and traveling through the work zone. For IDOT District 8 updates, follow us on Twitter at @IDOTDistrict8 or view area construction details on IDOT’s traveler information map on GettingAroundIllinois.com.
Hush-a-Phone, Scissor Phones, One of the First Rotary Dial Phones – these are some of the telephones you’ll see at the Jefferson Barracks Telephone Museum. Housed in a restored 1896 […]
KMOV's rebrand to First Alert 4 got us thinking. With St. Louis news outlets in open warfare over who’s "first" on everything, whether that be weather or news, no one is thinking about what the people actually want.
Dreaming of a white Christmas this year? If you'll be here in St. Louis, you may want to adjust your expectations. It's not just that the weather continues to feel more like fall than winter this month, with high temps this week predicted to soar yet again past 50 degrees.
We’ve noted for years how the “race to 5G” was largely just hype by telecoms and hardware vendors eager to sell more gear and justify high U.S. mobile data prices. While 5G does provide faster, more resilient, and lower latency networks, it’s more of a modest evolution than a revolution. But that’s not what telecom giants […]
The U.S. Senate took an important step Tuesday toward passing the nation’s annual defense policy bill, but the legislation did not include provisions aimed at compensating victims of radioactive contamination in St. Louis and around the country.
The reliably bipartisan legislation is expected to hit the same hard-right opposition in the U.S. House that has dogged lawmakers since the beginning of this Congress.
The Democratic-led upper chamber voted to end debate on this year’s $886 billion…
The reporting program restricts who can have a gun. Illinois State Police Director Brendan Kelly says the tool is stopping major tragedies before they happen.
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