a Better Bubble™

Aggregator

Today's Weather: Intermittent Clouds, Cool

1 week 4 days ago
This morning starts off chilly with cloudy skies and temperatures around 31 degrees. As the day unfolds, expect periods of sun breaking through intermittent clouds with a high reaching near 37 degrees. A gentle west wind of about 6 mph will accompany the afternoon, making it feel just a touch cooler. By evening, clouds will return, keeping skies mostly cloudy, while temperatures dip into the upper 20s. Overnight, expect mostly cloudy conditions and a low around 27 degrees, with an east wind around

Trump Is Helping Elon Musk’s Starlink Get Billions In Taxpayer Dollars With No Oversight

1 week 4 days ago
We’ve long noted how the 2021 infrastructure bill included $42.5 billion for broadband grants dubbed the Broadband, Equity, Access And Deployment (BEAD) program. The program wasn’t without its warts, but it had the potential to be truly transformative for U.S. broadband access. But Republicans illegally rewrote the program to redirect money away from stuff like affordable, gigabit, […]
Karl Bode

Monday, Feb. 2 - New leader seeks to rebuild CEMA

1 week 4 days ago
Gregg Favre has spent most of his professional life in public service, including a decade with the St. Louis Fire Department. Four weeks ago, he returned to city employment to head the City Emergency Management Agency. This morning, a sit down with STLPR's Rachel Lippmann.

Marijuana companies sue dozens of smoke shops for selling THCA hemp flower

1 week 4 days ago
A coalition of marijuana companies is filing lawsuits against businesses across Missouri, accusing dozens of stores of illegally selling marijuana under the guise of “THCA hemp flower” and undercutting the state’s regulated cannabis market. The lawsuits target nearly 40 stores in St. Louis County and 17 businesses in the Kansas City area, including major hemp […]
Rebecca Rivas

Missouri Democrat calls on Waymo to correct inaccurate testimony

1 week 4 days ago
State Sen. Stephen Webber is calling on Waymo to retract and correct testimony provided to the Missouri Senate Transportation Committee last week regarding the company’s driverless vehicles. Webber, a Democrat from Columbia, said in a letter to Waymo on Friday that the testimony given to the committee falsely claimed that the company’s driverless vehicles had […]
Kathryn Leverenz

Why Missouri courts keep tossing the secretary of state’s ballot language

1 week 4 days ago
Once is an accident. Twice is a coincidence. Three times is a pattern. So what does it say when five times in recent months ballot summaries written by Missouri Secretary of State Denny Hoskins have been tossed out by the courts? Since October, judges at every level of Missouri’s court system have stepped in to […]
Jason Hancock

A bit warmer this week, some light snow is in the forecast

1 week 4 days ago
ST. LOUIS - While temperatures will stay below average this week, we are expecting a warmer week than last. Temperatures that rose all day Sunday have held steady in the upper 20s overnight. We’ll see highs in the upper 30s Monday under partly to mostly cloudy skies. Areas to the southwest along I-44 will likely [...]
Angela Hutti