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Severe drought triggers assistance in nearly all of Kansas, half of Missouri

2 years 8 months ago

Almost all of Kansas and nearly half of Missouri are in severe enough drought to activate a federal program meant to help ranchers who have lost grazing acres for their herds, triggering millions of dollars in assistance. Eighty-five of Kansas’ 105 counties have been eligible for the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s livestock forage program, which […]

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Allison Kite

5G Airplane Interference Worries Were Largely Overhyped

2 years 8 months ago
Late last year, we noted how the FAA and the FCC (the agency that actually knows how spectrum works) had gotten into a bit of an ugly tussle over the FAA’s claim that 5G could harm air travel safety. The FAA claimed that deploying 5G in the 3.7 to 3.98 GHz “C-Band” would cause interference with certain […]
Karl Bode

First Bank opens branch in north St. Louis community center

2 years 8 months ago
"On a personal finance level, it will help residents with their banking needs; they'll have something that's close," Stacy Clay, First Bank's Midwest retail lead and director of community affairs, said of the new branch in an interview. "But also at a higher community development level, having a financial anchor in the area positions us to partner with developers and other folks who may be interested in doing redevelopment in that area."
James Drew

Rams settlement money moved into higher-yielding account

2 years 8 months ago
The hundreds of millions of dollars that the city of St. Louis, St. Louis County and the St. Louis Regional Convention and Sports Complex Authority (RSA) got from a settlement in the Rams relocation lawsuit was moved to a higher-yielding account Thursday while the three parties continue to debate how to divide it. In a joint statement Friday, St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones and St. Louis County Executive Sam Page said the money had been moved to a "flexible, low-risk account at Commerce Bank, in…
Sam Clancy, KSDK