While traditional local papers deserve no shortage of blame for their failure to adapt, media scholars have long pointed out that media consolidation paved the way for a lot of the problems we’re seeing today. The end result of consolidation was the gradual elbowing out of small local news outfits, leaving the sector peppered with […]
Twelve years ago I wrote a screed about how banks charge high swipe fees on credit cards and then rebate a part of those fees to their richest customers: This is fundamentally my problem with overdraft and interchange fees: they’re surreptitious ways for the poor to subsidize the rich. There’s no law against that, of ...continue reading "We have quantified the madness of reward cards"
New York state-based artist Jean Shin, Laumeier’s 2022 Visiting Artist in Residence, describes her work as “giving new form to life’s leftovers.” Her sculptures and installations transform familiar objects into
Emerson has been in the St. Louis area for 132 years. Now local leaders will try to prove the region should be its corporate home for the decades ahead.
The St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum reopened this week after a $21 million renovation that took two years to complete.
The museum is now 36,000 square feet, four times larger than it was before.
"The stories of St. Louis survivors really guide the visitor through the process," Amy Lutz of the Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum said. "We use the most up-to-date technology, up-to-date research to make that happen."
Lutz said the Holocaust is a difficult history. Visitors will hear first-hand…
Jodie Vice Lloyd contributed significantly to this work. In recent years, St. Louis has been seen by many as a case study of urban decline. Mapping Decline: St. Louis and the Fate of the American City by Colin Gordan and The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States by Walter […]
Jodie Ferguson was only six years old when she lost her grandmother, Clara Bloodworth, but their brief relationship was enough to have a lasting impact on her. A farmer's wife from Louisiana, Bloodworth moved to rural Pennsylvania after she got married and spent her days cooking for the farm hands and day laborers who would help her family work their land. Even after she got older and joined her daughter's family in Texas, Bloodworth could not help herself from taking over the kitchen, and when she did, little Ferguson was either on her hip or set up on the counter watching her grandma prepare okra and make what she referred to as doughnuts but were beignets.
PHOENIX — The two outdoor ballot drop boxes in Maricopa County are both unassuming — secure metal boxes, about the size of blue mailboxes, located just outside county buildings. But in recent weeks, they’ve at times been monitored by volunteers with far-right organizations, prompted by former President Donald Trump’s claims of widespread fraud and misinformation […]
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