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Gov. Mike Parson wants to use the state’s general revenue surpluses for major transportation and capital improvement projects.

For decades, U.S. policymakers have utterly refused to support any meaningful privacy protections for consumers. They opposed any new Internet privacy laws, however straightforward. They opposed privacy rules for broadband ISPs. They also fought tooth and nail to ensure the nation’s top privacy enforcement agency, the FTC, lacked the authority, staff, funds, or resources to actually do […]

The feds say that a former aide to St. Louis County Executive Sam Page who was convicted of corruption crimes bragged to an informant that "when Sam Page's term is over, we'll all be millionaires and won't have to worry about anything at all..." But they added that they had "no evidence that County Executive Page was aware of" the official's schemes.

The Jan. 19 rate hike is the second one for Missouri Spire customers in less than a month.

Imagine for just one second that this was you. In the center of my town of De Soto, more than 200 of my neighbors are living in a flood plain – and many are looking for a way to get out. It wasn’t always a dangerous area to live. In fact, for decades and decades […]

The post In De Soto, we need a way out of repeated flooding appeared first on Missouri Independent.

A few years ago, the newly launched Buzz's Hawaiian Grill (3457 Magnolia Avenue, 314-875-0076) was featured on the Food Network Show "Food Truck Nation," and the host lobbed a softball question at owner Thomas "Buzz" Moore about why he founded the brand. Moore thought he knew the answer, replying with some superficial musings that seemed to satisfy everyone involved, even as he knew, deep down, he hadn't gotten to the heart of the matter. That clarity would come to him a few years down the road, when after some serious reflection, Moore came to understand the real reason he opened Buzz's was not simply to bring Hawaiian food to St. Louis; it was because of his sister.

Possible future improvements to Interstate 64 in the city of St. Louis were laid out at a MoDOT open house. MoDOT’s focus is on the central corridor of I-64 between Jefferson and Kingshighway Streets.

Fourteen years had passed between the first the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday Committee of St. Louis commemoration march and King’s birthday becoming a national holiday.

Former St. Louis County jail official Tony Weaver referenced two high-profile county officials in a COVID-19 relief kickback scheme, prosecutors said.

Early in his annual State of the State address on Wednesday, Missouri Gov. Mike Parson sang the praises of an income tax cut enacted by the Republican-dominated General Assembly late last year.  Closer to the end of his nearly one-hour speech to a joint session of the legislature, Parson vowed to “support and defend our […]

The post Missouri Democrats praise Parson’s speech — and four other State of the State takeaways appeared first on Missouri Independent.

Climate change could submerge Stockton beneath 10 feet of water. The city's aging levees aren't prepared.

The Federal Reserve is putting the country's biggest banks to a test.

The hyperealistic drama reminds us that things aren’t always so rosy for people on the front lines of clean energy development.

In a new interview with Goldmine magazine, KISS’ Gene Simmons is revealing the 10 albums that changed his life. And folks may be a bit surprised by some of the records that made the list.…

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Former FCC Chairman Reed Hundt says $20 billion of IRA funds should capitalize his group’s proposed national bank. Local lenders are skeptical.

Our central bank operates by and for the financial elite.

As President Biden continues the policies of his predecessor on the border, the way out of the crisis lies in unclogging a system still bursting with cases.