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Back to SearchMost Missouri voters are tired of changing clocks every spring and fall
Results from recent polling suggest that there’s enough political will to end the practice of switching between daylight saving time and standard tim…
1 year, 11 months ago
Missouri Senate Majority Leader O’Laughlin navigates a session filled with rancor
As Missouri Senate Majority Leader, Cindy O’Laughlin has a front row seat to the factionalism of the General Assembly’s upper chamber. During a wide-…
1 year, 11 months ago
Alderwoman Alisha Sonnier wants to make it easier to open homeless shelters in St. Louis
Last year, St. Louis Alderwoman Alisha Sonnier unveiled legislation known as an Unhoused Bill of Rights. The bill included a lot of different ideas —…
1 year, 11 months ago
Wash U’s co-founder has a complicated past. A new board could take up his legacy
For many years, Washington University has portrayed one of its founders, William Greenleaf Eliot, as an abolitionist. But, in 2021, a group of studen…
1 year, 11 months ago
Remembering Bob Heil, Metro East innovator who changed how music is made, and sounds
Metro East sound engineer Bob Heil built sound systems and equipment that influenced the development of live concert sound in the 1970s and ‘80s, and…
1 year, 11 months ago
Most domestic violence victims face court alone. A retired judge wants to change that
Only 10% of domestic violence victims report their abuser, and of those who do file for orders of protection, only 20-25% are granted the order. Mike…
1 year, 11 months ago
Two STL prosecutors say Christopher Dunn is innocent. He’s still in prison.
On Feb. 7, St. Louis Circuit Attorney Gabe Gore filed a motion to vacate Chris Dunn’s murder conviction. “The eyewitness recantations alone are enoug…
1 year, 11 months ago
How drug monitoring programs route patients out of health care and into the legal system
Since the early 2000s, healthcare systems have used technology originally made for law enforcement to combat misuse of prescription meds — yet the op…
2 years ago
Remembering Colin Murphy, journalist, mentor and LGBTQ activist
Colin Murphy, co-founder of Boom Magazine — a queer publication focusing on the bi-state region — has died after a two-year battle with cancer. He wa…
2 years ago
Abuse at Kanakuk goes back decades. A new bill would help only some of the victims
In 2009, revelations of sexual abuse at one of the largest Christian camps in the country rocked the Branson-based Kanakuk camp. Now, a community of …
2 years ago