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Midterm Election Guide: Schmitt and Valentine Battle It Out for US Senate

3 years ago
When Roy Blunt announced that he would not be seeking re-election after his second term in the U.S. Senate, it set off a mad dash of Republicans and Democrats to replace him. The early days of the race had a number of interesting quirks, including a short-lived third party spoiler-in-the-making (to try and stop Eric Greitens if he won the primary) and a split endorsement from Trump. But now we're left in the general with a mainstream moderate D facing a Trump-loving, MAGA R. That sort of match up should sound familiar because that's basically what happened in 2018 when Claire McCaskill took on Josh Hawley and lost by nine points.
Ryan Krull

Even as drought forces water cutbacks, climate gets short shrift in midterm election

3 years ago

LAKE MEAD, Nev. — The streaks of white on the rock ringing the nation’s largest reservoir show how far its water levels have dropped since it was last full. Lake Mead and nearby Lake Powell, which send water to 40 million people in the Southwest, are at their lowest levels since they were filled in […]

The post Even as drought forces water cutbacks, climate gets short shrift in midterm election appeared first on Missouri Independent.

Jacob Fischler

The St. Louis Battlehawks Are Back

3 years ago
St. Louis's favorite football team is still the Battlehawks. This morning the XFL officially released the names of its eight teams, as well as new promotional materials for each one of them. Battlehawks fans will no doubt breath a sigh of relief that they can still yell "Ka Kaw!" and go to games wearing feathery wings.
Ryan Krull

Jean Shin: Home Base

3 years ago

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

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Patrick

Ready Or Not, Here Comes Net Neutrality War 2.0

3 years ago
I’ve got some bad news for those of you who were frustrated or bored by decades of net neutrality bickering: it’s about to kick off all over again. And this time it’s even more global. In the UK, US, EU, and South Korea, telecom lobbyists have been making successful inroads on plans that would force […]
Karl Bode

Central VPA, Collegiate high schools stay closed a week after school shooting

3 years ago
Central Visual and Performing Arts High School and Collegiate School of Medicine and Bioscience, which share a campus, will remain closed another week after Monday's school shooting. St. Louis Public Schools sent out a notice Sunday stating that the two schools would remain closed Oct. 31 through Nov. 4 after a gunman entered the schools' campus and opened fire, killing a student and teacher, and wounding seven others on Oct. 24 before being killed by police. The two schools were originally supposed…
Hayley Vawter, KSDK