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The Women's Bureau of the Department of Labor issued a report yesterday about the cost of child care. It uses data from their newly launched National Database of Childcare Prices, and I was interested to discover that the most expensive place in the country for child care is California: The main takeaway from the report ...continue reading "Child care prices: High, but rising only slowly"

Divorced. Beheaded. Died. Divorced. Beheaded. Survived.   From Tudor queens to pop princesses, the six wives of Henry VIII are remixing 500 years of historical heartbreak. Six is an exuberant

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BJC Healthcare announces investment in Wepower Capital.

Heavy snow fell during the pre-dawn hours and accumulated fairly quickly.

Fifty years ago, on Jan 22, 1973, the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision legalized abortion across the United States. This past June, however, that decision was reversed, leading states including Missouri to declare abortions illegal within their borders.

The classic story of traveling salesman Willy Loman and his family explores the disillusionment of the American Dream and the toll it takes on all aspects of life. When Willy

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The St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department has been under local control for the last decade, but some lawmakers would like to see the agency overseen by the state. 

The Chillicothe man accused of the Planned Parenthood arson in Peoria on January 15 has an extensive criminal history dating back 20 years, court and jail records show.

An Alton man was convicted and sentenced Wednesday for a 2022 double shooting at the East Alton ice rink.

Farmington got several inches of snow overnight. Some residents woke up to a large amount of snow Wednesday morning.

Two days after being appointed East St. Louis' interim city manager, Calvin Riley began firing key city employees.

Trying to get caught up on posts, so rather than four individual posts these four books from 2022 are grouped together. — Steve ‘City Forward: How Innovation Districts Can Embrace Risk and Strengthen Community’ by Matt Enstice with Mike Gluck To me it seems like nearly every new development project is ...

CHICAGO (AP) — A central Illinois man was charged Wednesday with setting fire to a Planned Parenthood clinic earlier this month, federal law enforcement said. Tyler W. Massengill, 32, of Chillicothe, is accused of “malicious use of fire and an explosive to damage, and attempt to damage" the clinic in Peoria, the U.S. Attorney’s Office [...]

So, we’ve written a few times about DoNotPay, the supposedly AI-powered “robot lawyer” that was initially designed to help you contest parking tickets but then expanded to helping (usefully) with a bunch of consumer annoyances, like cancelling accounts, obtaining owed refunds, and the like. But it’s also got some shadiness in its past, like the […]