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The Catholic Children's Home Receives A Holiday Surprise  

2 years 11 months ago
LAKE ST. LOUIS, MO – This Christmas season, the leading bariatric supplement provider, ProCare Health , fulfilled the Christmas lists (and then some) and provided a Christmas Eve dinner for 27 children at the Catholic Children’s Home in Alton, Illinois. On Thursday, December 15, ProCare Health assisted in delivering the gifts to the orphanage, whose mission is to aid, protect, and care for the needs, education, and welfare of dependent, neglected, abused, or otherwise hurting children and families regardless of economic status, race, religious beliefs, and nationality. Established in 1879 by the Precious Blood Sisters of Ruma, Illinois, the Catholic Children’s Home has a 143-year history of providing care for those in need. Professional services available include: Therapy Counseling Social Work Specialist Care Education For more information, please visit http://www.catholicchildrenshome.com/professional-services . Programs available include: Special

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Plans to tax recreational marijuana in the St. Louis area

2 years 11 months ago
ST. LOUIS, Mo. -- Lawmakers from St. Charles County to St. Louis are scrambling to get measures on the ballot to tax the sale of adult-use recreational marijuana. That's one of the provisions in Amendment 3 that legalized those cannabis sales. Elliott Davis talked to both officials and people from the industry about the new [...]
Elliott Davis

Biden honors more than a dozen Americans for upholding democracy on Jan. 6

2 years 11 months ago

WASHINGTON — On the second anniversary of the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, President Joe Biden on Friday awarded citizen medals to 14 Americans who protected democracy and law enforcement officers who defended the Capitol. “Two years ago on Jan. 6 our democracy was attacked,” Biden said at the White House. “Our democracy held because […]

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Ariana Figueroa

Kevin McCarthy finally wins his dream job

2 years 11 months ago
It only took 15 rounds of voting, but Kevin McCarthy finally managed to convince four holdouts to vote present instead of voting for someone else. So he never got the 218 votes he needed, but with four missing votes he only needed 215—which he already had. It was an epic victory.
Kevin Drum

Copyright Has Kept De La Soul’s Classic 1st Album Off Streaming… Until Now

2 years 11 months ago
For years, we’ve written about the copyright nonsense around sampling in hip hop music, and how it was treated with very, very different rules than things like cover songs and paying homage to previous artists in other forms of music. As we’ve mentioned for over a decade, filmmaker Kembrew McCleod did a full (fascinating) exploration […]
Mike Masnick

Rosati-Kain celebrates staying open, leaders share detailed plans for the future

2 years 11 months ago
A century-old school celebrated its new path forward at a news conference Friday morning. Rosati-Kain High School has been in the Central West End for decades and school leaders hope the legacy continues for years to come. This is after it was revealed at the end of September that the all-girls high school would be forced to close by the end of the school year because the Archdiocese of St. Louis has a new restructuring plan called "All Things New." The archdiocese's plan addresses declining numbers,…
Justina Coronel, KSDK