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2 years 8 months ago
It was New Year’s Eve 1996: My cousin Anthony and I were sitting at his mother’s dining room table playing a card game. Our mothers were in the kitchen, laughing, smoking cigarettes, and telling old stories about their childhood. Our…
By St. Louis Mayor Tishaura O. Jones

Kansas City residents will soon have the right to an attorney in eviction proceedings

2 years 8 months ago

 A stack of boxes sitting in attorney Gina Chiala’s garage reminds her of how devastating evictions can be on families.  A woman had called her in 2014, a couple years before Chiala co-founded the Heartland Center For Jobs and Freedom nonprofit law group to provide legal support to the movement of fast-food workers fighting for […]

The post Kansas City residents will soon have the right to an attorney in eviction proceedings appeared first on Missouri Independent.

Rebecca Rivas

The Legacy of Wehrenberg Theatres

2 years 8 months ago
If you grew up in the St. Louis area, you likely saw a film at a Wehrenberg Theatres location at some point. Moviegoers can still recall the whispered name that played at the end of the company’s pre-movie video: “Wehrenberg. Wehrenberg. Wehrenberg.” The legacy of how it became the US’s oldest and largest family-owned movie …
Brittany Krewson