Members of a U.S. Senate committee on Wednesday previewed what they would push for in bipartisan rail safety legislation likely to progress through Congress in the aftermath of the East Palestine, Ohio, derailment. Democrats and Republicans on the U.S. Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee hinted they wanted to strengthen requirements about reporting hazardous cargo, […]
The website for the small north county municipality of Bellerive Acres lists the address for its administrative offices as being within the city hall for nearby Pasadena Hills, where Bellerive Acres has rented space since July 2021. A recent visit to that address, however, revealed that no Bellerive Acres’ employees work there.
A bond hearing for Iron County sheriff, charged in a plot to help a friend with a parental kidnapping, spiraled into a 2½-hour event where the prosecutor hinted at an even bigger scandal brewing.
Greater Than the Sum of its Parts, Amazing Art from Pieces and Pixels, features Pysanky by Katherine Alexander, Digital Art by Matt Bryan, Mosaics by Brenda Fra-ser, Assemblage by Nell
If you recall, the Trump FCC under Ajit Pai spent several years stripping away popular media consolidation limits established over decades with bipartisan approval. The push was ironically to directly help aid Sinclair broadcasting’s steady consolidation of local broadcast news, which resulted in a homogenized soup of well-funded propaganda and the erosion of real, local […]
As a proposal for an additional sales tax on marijuana heads to St. Louis County voters, more changes in marijuana usage could be coming to the county, including where you can and cannot smoke it.
During a Wednesday morning news conference, County Executive Sam Page announced the St. Louis County Council is working to update its clean air code to address marijuana smoke. The code currently regulates where people can smoke tobacco.
The restrictions on marijuana smoke are aimed at limiting secondhand…
Increasingly restrictive abortion laws in many states have sent women traveling, in search of procedures and pills they can no longer legally get at home. A volunteer pilot organization is helping.
On one end of the Missouri Capitol, House Republicans seem poised to divvy up the money Gov. Mike Parson wants to use widening portions of Interstate 70 on a bunch of smaller projects. Across the rotunda in the Senate, Appropriations Chairman Lincoln Hough is looking for ways to pour more money into the project to […]
Yesterday afternoon, the City of St. Louis sent out a warning that starting tonight at 7 p.m. a flood watch will be in effect for more than 24 hours. The alert says that there is an expected rainfall of one to two inches. The flood watch will be in effect until 1 a.m.
A year after private equity-backed Noble Health shuttered two rural Missouri hospitals, patients and former employees grapple with a broken local health system or missing out on millions in unpaid wages and benefits. The hospitals in Audrain and Callaway counties remain closed as a slew of lawsuits and state and federal investigations grind forward. In […]
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