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Missouri participation in public benefits program WIC fell sharply during pandemic

3 years ago

Even as the COVID-19 pandemic intensified economic hardship and unemployment, Missouri saw one of the nation’s sharpest drops in participation in WIC, a federal benefits program for low-income women and children, according to a report released last week. The steep decline, the report found, was associated with Missouri’s burdensome system of dispersing benefits. Missouri began transitioning […]

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Clara Bates

The ‘Adelante method’ helped me succeed as a Latina journalist

3 years ago

A Mizzou student asked me last month how I was able to succeed as a Latina journalist in a white-dominated industry. The question followed a similar theme of those asked by other members of the Latin American Student Association, which had invited me to the university’s Columbia campus to speak as part of Hispanic Heritage […]

The post The ‘Adelante method’ helped me succeed as a Latina journalist appeared first on Missouri Independent.

Rebecca Rivas

Hartmann: Sam Page Is Not the Democrat You Think He Is

3 years ago
In 2008, then-state Representative Sam Page ran unsuccessfully for the post of Missouri lieutenant governor. But the man who managed Page's campaign would go on to a certain measure of success as a familiar face in the St. Louis region.
Ray Hartmann

Returning to Fairness

3 years ago
A commissioner at the Federal Trade Commission considers rural America and open markets.
Alvaro M. Bedoya

STLduJour(nal) ⏳ - MMXXII:283-AM

3 years ago
STLduJour(nal) ⏳ - MMXXII:283-AM JW Mon, 10/10/2022 - 06:03 STL: Sunday, October 9, 2022 Events 📆 BuySTL 👜
  • Huge barge backup eases on Mississippi River, freeing tons of cargo - stltoday.com
  • Manufacturers report too much inventory, retailers too little - stltoday.com
  • Lighthouse St. Louis TDD - stLouIST - a Better Bubble™
  • Developer walks away from rehab of St. Louis' second-largest office building - r/StLouis
  • United Airlines cuts nonstop route from St. Louis to San Francisco - r/StLouis
Restaurants 🍲 STLfood ⚜️
  • St. Louis Standards: The Wine & Cheese Place Has Been Spreading Joy for 40 Years - RFT
  • Is it just me or have Red Hot Riplets gotten way worse? - r/StLouis
Neighborhoods 🏡 STL100 💯
  • Busch Stadium packs largest crowd in its postseason history - FOX 2
  • Budweiser Clydesdales welcome new members to the herd - KSDK
STL99 😱
  • Grover the river otter dies at the Saint Louis Zoo - FOX 2
  • STL County woman sentenced to 1 year and 1 day in prison after reaping fraud pandemic funds - FOX 2
  • Gas leak prompts evacuations in Dutchtown neighborhood - stltoday.com
  • Residents in south St. Louis rush out of their homes after a construction crew hit gas line - FOX 2
  • Homes evacuated after south St. Louis natural gas leak - FOX 2
  • Residents in south St. Louis evacuated after gas main hit - KSDK
99MO 😱
  • Potential $30 Million International Arms Deal Plays Out in Eureka, Missouri - RFT
WW99 😱
  • Frontline Ukraine troops are reportedly enduring Starlink outages - Engadget
Pox Populi™ 🦠
  • As Omicron mutates wildly the virus shows first signs of convergent evolution - New Atlas
Police 🚓
  • Bellefontaine Neighbors Police Department looking to hire officers - KSDK
DotGov 🏛
  • California to discontinue plastic grocery bags - Hacker News
CityGov 🏛
  • Messenger: More problems with open records in St. Louis, this time from Kim Gardner - stltoday.com
  • St. Louis mayor hires new personnel director - stltoday.com
  • St. Louis hires new personnel director - FOX 2
  • Mayor Tishaura O. Jones Proposes at Least $40 Million in American Rescue Plan Funding to Make Streets Safer Following Extensive Community Input - RiverBender
  • BB 101 - Community Development Agency (CDA) HUD 2023 Action Plan - Board Bills
  • BB 100 - Speed Humps Various Location 27th Ward - Board Bills
LocalGov 🏛
  • St. Louis County now expects $3.86M tax gain due to higher used-vehicle values - stltoday.com
  • Auditor grilled at 3-hour meeting, but St. Louis County Council won't reveal details - stltoday.com
MoGov 🏛
  • Eric Schmitt says children are exposed to ‘radical ideology’ in schools - stltoday.com
  • Missouri state government has more than 7,500 vacancies. Parson pledges to keep raising pay. - stltoday.com
  • Some Missouri lawmakers concerned foreign farms could benefit from agriculture tax credits - FOX 2
FedGov 🏛
  • Declassified US nuclear targets – interactive map - Hacker News
Jobs 📄 History 🦕
  • A St. Louis-bred mobster had his flashy last ride home in 1933 - stltoday.com
  • The day they fired Harry Caray: a shock to Cardinal fans - stltoday.com
  • Southtown - c.1970 - r/StLouis
Sustainability ♻️ Infrastructure 🚽
  • Spire gas bills in St. Louis to go up slightly. Bigger proposed rate hikes loom. - stltoday.com
  • Satellite power grid would beam energy around the globe just like data - New Atlas
  • Made in America is back, leaving US factories scrambling to find workers - Hacker News
  • Interactive Submarine Cable Map - Hacker News
Ecology 🦤
  • The Rainbow Eucalyptus is the world's most colorful tree - Boing Boing
WWW99 🕸
  • That thing to help protect internet traffic from hijacking? It's broken - The Register
  • Amazon Scraps Scout Home Delivery Robot Tests - Gizmodo
Twitter 🐦
  • Kanye West Locked Out of Twitter for Antisemitic Tweet One Day After Being Restricted From Instagram - Gizmodo
  • Musk's trial hasn't stopped, no matter what he told Twitter, says judge - Hacker News
  • Twitter's edit button finally debuts in the United States, but you'll have to pay for it - Engadget
Space 🚀
  • How NASA plans to stop killer asteroids - Freethink
  • SpaceX gives another four astronauts a lift to International Space Station - The Register
  • SpaceX to Attempt Rare Launch of Falcon Heavy Later This Month - Gizmodo
DIY 🪓
  • Building an FM radio from $3 radio chip and an 84MHz ARM Arduino - Hacker News
  • PDF processing and analysis with open-source tools - Hacker News
  • Microblog.pub – A self-hosted, single-user, ActivityPub powered microblog - Hacker News
  • Microjs: Fantastic Micro-Frameworks and Micro-Libraries for Fun and Profit - Hacker News
  • TypeScript is now officially 10 years old - Hacker News
  • Running GUI Linux in a virtual machine on a Mac - Hacker News
  • Adding Fluid Typography Support to WordPress Block Themes - CSS-Tricks
Captain's Blog 🏴‍☠️
  • Sad - Scripting News
  • Virgina Air Hyperloop's pod on display at Kirkwood museum - FOX 2
  • A look back at children's TV show pioneer, Captain Kangaroo - Boing Boing
  • These McDonaldLand brand guidelines are like the handbook for a horror RPG - Boing Boing
  • Ask HN: Why do people come to HN for Stripe resolutions? - Hacker News
  • Stripe is PayPal circa 2010 - Hacker News
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