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Connecticut Gives Frontier A Wrist Slap For Years Of Bullshit Fees

2 years 9 months ago
For decades, federal regulators have turned a blind eye while your cable and broadband provider rips you off with a bevy of misleading fees. The fees usually come with nonsensical names like “regulatory recovery fee” or “internet cost recovery surcharge,” and are tacked below the line post sale, letting cable and broadband providers covertly jack […]
Karl Bode

St. Louis Man Who Lived a Double Life Avoids Prison, But Still Pays Steep Price

2 years 9 months ago
A St. Louis man who lived in Germany for three decades under a false identity was sentenced in federal court yesterday to time served and three years of supervised release. DeLeo Barner, 59, pleaded guilty in May to one count of passport fraud for obtaining passports under the identity of another St. Louisan. Though he avoided prison time, the supervised-release portion of Barner's sentence may be a significant hardship for the man who built a life and a family in Germany.
Ryan Krull

Loft on Washington Avenue, St. Louis public safety department reach agreement to improve security

2 years 9 months ago
The city of St. Louis came to an agreement with the Ely Walker Lofts to improve security measures after hundreds of police calls for service related to the building in the last year. The consent decree, which was signed by the building's condo association president and St. Louis Public Safety Director Dan Isom, comes after months of concerns. According to the agreement, there were 247 calls for police service to the building over a one-year period starting Aug. 31, 2021. To curb safety concerns,…
Sam Clancy, KSDK

Talking trash: We don’t have to treat our farms like landfills

2 years 9 months ago

Here’s something I think about all the time while working on our farm: Trash. Not “trash” as in how much manure is generated by animals (there is a lot, but we move our cattle and goats many times a week and they are on pasture 365 days a year, so there is no one spot […]

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Beth Hoffman