This week's entry in our Advance STL project, which explores the region's biggest challenges, might also be the most compelling. It offers insightful tales of the immigrant experience from people who are having a lasting impact on the St. Louis business community. But it also shines a spotlight on how, despite those successes, we still lag our peers when it comes to attracting the foreign-born and other critical demographics.
The Doobie Brothers have added a special gig to the 2022 leg of their 50th anniversary tour, a September 8 performance at New York City's famous Radio City Music Hall.…
You know things are going just great in crypto-land when a cryptocurrency company has to post a vague cease-and-desist letter to its own blog. Everything about this is bizarre, but it culminated in this very strange cease-and-desist blog post by Nexo. There is a separate blog post that sort of, but not quite, tries to […]
Governor Mike Parson signed a bill yesterday that requires all voters to provide a government-issued photo ID at the ballot box along with a list of other stipulations, and voting rights groups are pushing back. HB 1878 is set to go into effect August 28, meaning the measure will not be in place until after the August 2 primary election. Denise Lieberman, director and general counsel of the Missouri Voter Protection Coalition, said in a statement that the group is disappointed by the new law and is considering legal action against some of the bill’s provisions.
St. Louis County Executive Sam Page's Chief of Staff [Calvin Harris] has resigned citing family reasons. The departure coincides with an allegation that a high-level member of Page's administration videotaped himself engaged in a sex act inside his government office.
U.S. Congresswoman and candidate for Missouri's open U.S. Senate seat Vicky Hartzler is the latest guest on Politically Speaking. Hartzler joins St. Louis Public Radio's Jason Rosenbaum and Sarah Kellogg to speak on her campaign as well as policy topics including abortion, inflation and the Jan. 6th committee.
St. Louis, long a slow-growing metro, has plans to boost its immigrant population — a strategy that prevented more decline from 2010 to 2019. But, to a large extent, it's constrained by the long-standing controversy over the U.S. immigration system.
After at least one hospital system in Missouri stopped providing emergency contraception because of ambiguity in the state’s abortion ban, Attorney General Eric Schmitt’s office clarified Wednesday that contraception is …
Regional cannabis company Missouri's Own made a big splash this month when it announced that it would be releasing a line of Old Vienna of St. Louis' Red Hot Riplets chips infused with THC, marrying the interests of many a stoner in a union so perfect it seems like a fairy tale. The "twice-baked" chips, as they are playfully dubbed, have since become one of the hottest tickets in Missouri's medical marijuana market, flying off the shelves at every dispensary at which they are sold.
Gray Television, owners of Channel 4, paid $1 million for KDLT (Channel 16), which now airs religious programming. It was the latest in a string of such purchases.
A Bellefontaine Neighbors man accused of killing four people in St. Louis and two in Kansas was transferred today from Federal Custody in St. Louis to Jackson County, where he will stand trial for a seventh murder he is accused of committing there. In November, the FBI described Perez Reed as a "suspected serial killer." He was arrested in November while traveling by train from Kansas City to St. Louis.
(SITEMAN CANCER CENTER) - It’s likely no surprise to read that what we choose to eat and drink can have a large impact on our health, including our risk of cancer. Practically from the time we can sit up at the kitchen table, we’re reminded of the importance of eating our vegetables. And although some of the messages and headlines we read these days about healthy eating can seem complicated or even contradictory, the science-backed basics of healthy eating actually remain simple. Here are four tips that have been found to help lower the risk of cancer: Focus on fruits, vegetables, and whole grains Eating healthy, plant-based foods has a lot of overall health benefits and can also help prevent some cancers. Foods high in fiber and whole grains – like whole-wheat bread and whole-grain cereals – have been found to lower the risk of colon cancer. Diets rich in fruits and vegetables have been found to lower the risk of a collection of cancers that include
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