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Paying down debt. Taking a family vacation. Defraying child care costs. These are a few of the ways Kansas City families have used extra income they received this year from monthly federal child tax credits. Since 1997, most working families have been eligible for an income tax credit based on the number of children in a […]

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For the past 20 years, I have been engaged in efforts to end the opioid epidemic, as a public health official, researcher and clinician. And for every one of those years I have looked on as the number of deaths from drug overdoses has set a new record high. Yet even knowing that trend I was […]

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‘Pretty much what it comes down to is the funeral home industry in the state of Missouri can do whatever it wants to.’

Board also OKs continuing downtown tax district, advances bill to put bond issue before voters and opposes naming health clinic for Homer G. Phillips.

A talented couple of artisans reconfigure glass and clay into many eye-catching objects. One of the many benefits of living in a walkable community like Maplewood is that you’re more likely to meet people and make interesting discoveries while walking.  Several times a week my dog and I poke our heads in the usually open […]

On August 5, 1967, The Monkees played St. Louis at Kiel Auditorium. Other than Elvis and The Beatles, St. Louis had never seen anything like it.

This is the fifth report in The St. Louis American's presentation of "The Barren Mile: COVID19 and the fight against food apartheid," a national series, preceded by Pandemic pushes more Black Americans to take up urban farming to fight 'food…