WASHINGTON, D.C. – This week, Congresswoman Nikki Budzinski (IL-13) and Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici (OR-01) led 27 members in a letter to the Office of Head Start, urging them to withdraw the proposed rule that would eliminate the wage and benefit standards finalized in 2024. These standards were designed to stabilize the Head Start workforce and improve program quality for children and families. The members wrote, “At its core, this proposal asks the American people to accept
On This Day, June 11, 1988 …Sting, Phil Collins, Eric Clapton and Dire Straits were among the artists who performed at the 70th birthday tribute concert for anti-apartheid revolutionary Nelson…
Come Face-to-Fin with Earth’s Largest Creature through The Blue Whale Story at the Saint Louis Science Center! The life story of the largest creatures on Earth will come alive at […]
Adventure is not the opposite of safety. For many people, it is the thing that makes life feel fully awake. That may sound odd in a world built around comfort and routine. We use maps instead of getting lost. We order food without leaving home. We can talk to people across the world while sitting on the couch. Yet even with all that ease, people still climb mountains, book one-way trips, start new careers, try foods they cannot pronounce, and say yes to plans that make their heart race a little.
On June 11, one of the most consequential events in modern global history is the 1963 address in which U.S. President John F. Kennedy announced that he would soon ask Congress to pass sweeping civil rights legislation. He spoke after years of protest, court battles, and violent resistance to racial desegregation in the United States, and on the same day federal action forced the University of Alabama to admit two Black students, Vivian Malone and James Hood. At the time, the speech mattered becaus
Celebrate the strength of the human spirit and rediscover the ways we are all connected! Meditative paintings and poetry by St. Louis artist Angela L. Chostner invite viewers to journey […]
The upcoming special exhibition at the Stephen and Peter Sachs Museum explores the myriad ways that different cultures represent plants and gardens through literary media, such as herbals, novels, poems, […]
The geometric and glowing art of HYBYCOZO is coming to St. Louis this spring and summer, on display for daytime visitors of the Missouri Botanical Garden and during special illuminated […]
The National Museum of Transportation is proud to announce a special exhibition celebrating the 100th anniversary of historic Route 66. Titled “Roads, River, Rooms, and Reels,” the exhibit will open […]
ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. - Officials are investigating an overnight fire in north St. Louis County Thursday. Five people were rescued by a ladder after a fire broke out at an apartment complex in the 4600 block of Whisper Lake Dr. in Black Jack just after midnight. No injuries were reported in the fire. Residents, [...]
The High Low Gallery presents a new exhibition, Night Comfort, featuring works by St. Louis artist Jeremy Rabus, opening Friday, March 27 and running through Sunday, June 14. Night Comfort explores nostalgia through […]
I’ve noted repeatedly how the Trump administration is going out of its way to not only destroy all oversight of the country’s shitty and predatory telecom monopolies, but to eliminate any and all systems that try to ensure that U.S. broadband access is actually affordable. This stuff often runs in parallel to the administration’s brutal […]
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