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St. Louis lost about $500K in recreational marijuana sales tax because of missing paperwork

2 years 10 months ago
The city of St. Louis is potentially out of hundreds of thousands of dollars in revenue since October. The city failed to file paperwork with the state of Missouri in time to collect sales tax on recreational marijuana. In April 2023, a proposition was passed to add an additional 3% sales tax in St. Louis city. It was meant to go into effect on Oct. 1, 2023. Yet, the St. Louis mayor's office says that the proper notification to marijuana purveyors and the required documentation to the State…
Annie Krall

Funding lag creates barrier for Missouri private school tax credit program

2 years 10 months ago

When students returned to classrooms around Missouri in August, only 601 had secured a scholarship through the MOScholars program as a returning recipient — half as many as were in the program in May.  There were also 247 first-time participants.  Three months into the school year, MOScholars has ballooned to 829 returning students and 675 […]

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Annelise Hanshaw

A Number of Tragedies

2 years 10 months ago

Laumeier Sculpture Park’s 2023 Visiting Artists in Residence are Pittsburgh-based artists Lenka Clayton and Phillip Andrew Lewis. This collaborative duo utilizes innovative approaches to conceptualism and minimalism to realize their […]

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Rachel Huffman

Dirty 20 Nerd Bar Seeks to Be a Dungeons & Dragons Hub in Ballwin

2 years 10 months ago
For as long as Jason Moughton can remember, he wanted to open a restaurant. But it wasn't until 2019 when that dream kicked into high gear — because that's when Moughton found Dungeons & Dragons. In falling in love with the tabletop game, Moughton and his wife, Ruth Camburn, were just a bit ahead of a very big curve.
Sarah Fenske

M.A.R.U. Offers St. Louis Space Rock — and Neon Frogs

2 years 10 months ago
“We are all alien,” the motto of St. Louis band Mobile Alien Research Unit (M.A.R.U.), invites listeners on a spiritual journey filled with existentialism, space rock jams and frogs. Michael Quintero, Steve Lewis and Ryan Koster began the band in 2021 to offer audiences an otherworldly music experience.
Peter Cohen

St. Louis Circuit Attorney Gets Missouri AG Help on Post-Conviction Cases

2 years 10 months ago
St. Louis Circuit Attorney Gabe Gore has farmed out approximately 100 post-conviction relief cases filed with his office to an unusual assistant — Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey. These cases, which in Missouri are technically civil litigation, represent a convicted person's challenge to either their conviction or sentence in a criminal case.
Ryan Krull

A jailed ex-KC cop is a problem for Mike Parson. Blaming the prosecutor won’t solve it

2 years 10 months ago

Missouri Gov. Mike Parson clearly doesn’t know what to do about Eric DeValkenaere, the former Kansas City police officer convicted of killing a 26-year-old Black man, Cameron Lamb. Parson, forever a county sheriff at heart, hates the thought of a cop sitting in prison and he’s under pressure from the extended brotherhood of law enforcement […]

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Barbara Shelly