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On March 4, 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt took the oath of office as president of the United States in the middle of the Great Depression and used his inaugural address to signal a major shift in how government would respond to national crisis. The economy was collapsing, banks were failing, and unemployment was widespread. Roosevelt’s message—best remembered for the line about having “nothing to fear but fear itself”—mattered because it tried to steady a shaken public

The St. Louis Assessor’s Office raised $2,000 for charity, donating $500 each to four local organizations this holiday season.

An Imperial home exploded Tuesday afternoon after a gas leak prompted an evacuation, local fire officials said. There were no injuries.

“I hope we can get some type of help soon. We need more resources for mental health.”

We’ve noted repeatedly how Trump FCC boss Brendan Carr has been abusing the FCC’s “equal opportunity” (or “equal time”) rule to try and threaten daytime and late night talk shows with government retribution if they refuse to enthusiastically coddle Republicans. Late night shows had historically been exempt from the dated rules, which required that any […]

Don Mayhew believes in the free market. “We have choice in a lot of different things. Go to a grocery store — there’s four different brands of green beans you can buy,” said Mayhew, a Republican Crocker. “We know that competition in any marketplace is the foundation — the cornerstone — of our capitalist system.” […]

Begin Again: 50 Years and Counting marks Laumeier’s 50th anniversary by celebrating five decades of artist commissions and exhibitions. Featuring hundreds of artists and rarely seen works from Laumeier’s collection, […]

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A bill that would ban three-cueing and establish new reading assessments was discussed in the Senate Education Committee on Wednesday. After legislation prohibiting three-cueing as a primary instructional method passed last year, legislators are now aiming for an outright ban. Three-cueing, also known as the Meaning Structure Visual system, teaches kids to read by using […]

The accident when the man's car crossed the center line and struck another vehicle, the Missouri State Highway Patrol said.

"Think broadly about what does your community really need to define itself to become even more prosperous in the future?" a consultant asked.

When Mark Ludwig lost shared custody of his son more than a decade ago, his life fell apart.  “The devastation of losing my son who was my sole purpose in life, I couldn’t function,” Ludwig, who lives in the St. Louis area, told the Missouri House Children and Families Committee in late January. “I lost […]