This featured exhibition in the Great Hall of the St. Louis Public Library – Central Library explores how iconic characters both reflect and influence American culture from the 1960s to
Forced seclusion and restraint can have a traumatic impact on children, especially for kids with disabilities, who comprise the vast majority of those subjected to this treatment in school. The practice, sometimes called “isolated time-out,” can result in troubled kids being placed alone in “quiet rooms” that endanger them because adult supervision is often lacking.
ST. LOUIS, Mo. - The City of St. Louis Water Division has lifted the boil water advisory for several neighborhoods. Officials reported a power loss at the Chain of Rocks Water Treatment Plant. A brief outage at an Ameren Missouri substation interrupted power to the Chain of Rocks Treatment Facility. The water division was working [...]
The ongoing fight over Missouri's near-total abortion ban, legalizing sports betting and making it more difficult to pass ballot issues are some of the top issues this year in Jefferson City. The 2023 session starts today.
2022 was another banner year for development in St. Louis. The pandemic and inflation didn’t slow things down, resulting in a record dollar amount of building permits issued surpassing 2018. In nominal terms at least. The 2018 amount adjusted by the Consumer Price Index (July 2018 to July 2022) would be $1.425B,a hair more than […]
Back in 2016 we noted how U.S. power utilities like Florida Power & Light created entirely fake consumer groups to try and derail legislation that would have brought more competition to market. Six years later and the company has again found itself in the middle of another scandal, this time for buying favorable news coverage […]
Bommarito Automotive Group founder and former President Frank Bommarito died Monday in Naples, Florida, at the age of 88, according to the company.
The legendary St. Louis business owner began his career as a car jockey and washer in 1952 at a local GM dealership, according to the Bommarito website. There, he advanced to new and used car sales and ranked as No. 8 in the nation for retail sales. He later became the sales manager at one of Missouri’s largest GM dealerships, and the General Motors…
Twenty of 57 rural hospitals in Missouri, or 35%, are at risk of closing, a nonprofit said, citing losses on patient services and low financial reserves in the category.
The Major Case Squad of Greater St. Louis launched an investigation Sunday, with about 20 investigators working to identify the person or persons responsible.
Before the Kansas City Chiefs defeated the Los Angeles Rams on Nov. 27, GeoComply defeated 82,000 attempts by Missourians to access sports gambling sites. Missouri hasn’t legalized sports wagering, and a gambler must be in a state that has, like Kansas or Illinois, to make a legal bet. The blocked bets before the Chiefs’ game […]
For years Beatles fans have blamed John Lennon’s wife Yoko Ono for breaking up the band, but a source close to the couple believes she was a scapegoat and Lennon is to blame for it.…
For some reason, this feels like a cause that could only emerge from the scattered remnants of the Missouri Republican Party. One of the top GOP priorities for the new year will be finally getting an item on the statewide ballot to make it harder for future voters to act in their own interests by statewide ballot. Every sentence about this nonsense comes to you courtesy of the Department of Redundancy Department.
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