Steph Kukuljan

The board took this bill back up and approved the blighting for another five years.

Riverview's mayor rules with secret meetings, retaliation and a gun on his hip, critics say Mike Cornell came into office with a list of legal troubles and aspirations to clean up this small north St. Louis County city.

Y'all have to read this insane story www.stltoday.com/news/local/g...

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My latest story is about how people are pitching in to help their neighbors, and how you can too:

St. Louis apartment project is dead. Unpredictable tax breaks are to blame, official says A developer proposing a $120 million apartment project on Kingshighway faced additional demands from aldermen after qualifying for tax breaks. That's driving developers away, some city officials say.

St. Louis apartment project is dead. Unpredictable tax breaks are to blame, official says www.stltoday.com/news/local/g...

Riverview's mayor rules with secret meetings, retaliation and a gun on his hip, critics say Mike Cornell came into office with a list of legal troubles and aspirations to clean up this small north St. Louis County city.

Y'all have to read this insane story www.stltoday.com/news/local/g...

Where to find a food pantry in the St. Louis area This free article outlines where to give food or monetary donations, as well as how to find help.

This free article outlines where to give food or monetary donations, as well as how to find help.

Detective Donald Duck sleeping on duty. Without pants.

His fellow officer doesn't see what the issue is.

A Detroit police officer appeared in court virtually wearing his uniform top with no pants on

Judge: “You got some pants on, officer?”

how it feels to do physical activity after the age of 35

Judge kicks St. Louis sheriff out of office while he's in jail A judge on Wednesday kicked Sheriff Alfred Montgomery out of office because he can't run the department from jail.

Do we think Vienna is just like an American jail or is jail better than I thought? (I’ve been to neither)

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St. Louis Galleria looks to sell six acres at high-profile corner The land is located at the southern end of the mall, at Interstate 64 and Brentwood Boulevard, and currently serves as a parking lot.

The land is located at the southern end of the mall, at Interstate 64 and Brentwood Boulevard, and currently serves as a parking lot.

St. Louis officials commit $78,000 to secure Railway Exchange as plans for vacant structure stall St. Louis’ Land Clearance for Redevelopment Authority approved a security contract worth thousands to secure the Railway Exchange building downtown, but plans for the building have stalled.

“For years we've been approving the security measures... whether it's a guard at the site, or this DAWG system … and it can't last. It can't go on forever. “

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Hundreds of St. Louis houses hit by May tornado were vacant. That will hurt recovery. The Post-Dispatch found that 1,175 structures, more than half of those declared unsafe, were likely or definitely vacant before the May 16 tornado.

It's a somber article on a gloomy day, but an important read.

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Almost every major news story this week is about how the entire economy is now gambling, scams, bribes and theft.

Investor wins $3.6M from troubled St. Louis developer. More could follow. The Colorado investor is still facing off against another Green Street partner, whose bankruptcy proceedings had slowed this case.

One of the leaders of Green Street Real Estate Ventures has agreed to pay a disgruntled investor more than $3M to settle claims the troubled development firm did not pay out returns.

The investor could get another windfall, court records show www.stltoday.com/news/local/b...

Hundreds of St. Louis houses hit by May tornado were vacant. That will hurt recovery. The Post-Dispatch found that 1,175 structures, more than half of those declared unsafe, were likely or definitely vacant before the May 16 tornado.

New data obtained by @stltoday.com indicates hundreds of the buildings mangled by the May 16 tornado in St. Louis were likely vacant before the storm even hit.

That could hobble the city's efforts to rebuild the neighborhoods hit hardest by the storm.

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Spent a week in SF, where I was able to get around the Bay Area for under $50 thanks to its expansive public transportation network.

STL’s leaders are doing our region such a disservice by not prioritizing public transportation.

A St. Louis Bird That Crosses Divides Gets His Own Show

A #STL icon lands in the @nytimes.com!

Enjoy this gift article about @stltoday.com’s own 🪶

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It wasn't just Collinsville. 'Forever chemicals' hit 3 other Metro East cities The state's Environmental Protection Agency issued public notices to water system operators in Bethalto, East Alton and Edwardsville in April, before Collinsville alerted the public to its problems.

Illinois warned 3 other communities months ago that harmful “forever chemicals” had been detected in their municipal water supplies, long before the issue came out publicly at a Collinsville city council meeting last month www.stltoday.com/news/local/i...

Why would a billionaire want a functioning paper? Functioning papers cover shit like “did you know this billionaire makes his workers pee into bottles instead of taking a break” and “you pay way more tax than a guy with ten yachts”

Obama was still in office when the first season came out 🫨

Virtual meeting happening now 👩‍💻

Leo questioned a world where the wealth of the elite grows "exponentially" while many "millions of people die of hunger or survive in conditions unfit for human beings." He also criticized "ideologies that defend the absolute autonomy of the marketplace and financial speculation," with false promises "that a free-market economy will automatically solve the problem of poverty." Leo described a "new tyranny," which shuns any kind of oversight and where the economy is structured "in such a way that sacrifices are demanded of the masses in order to serve the needs of the powerful." The poor, he wrote, are only allowed "drops that trickle down." The pope openly challenged "prosperity theology" and called Christians to the practice of giving charity. "It will not solve the problem of world poverty, yet it must still be carried out, with intelligence, diligence and social responsibility," he wrote. Popular movements that challenge "the empire of money," invite people to take on the cause to combat poverty alongside the poor, instead of on their behalf, and "make history," the pope said. It our duty, Leo said, to "make their voices heard, albeit in different ways, in order to point out and denounce such structural issues, even at the cost of appearing foolish or naïve."

Pope Leo is spitting.

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In order to maintain certified, businesses will have to write a personal narrative describing specific experiences of being discriminated against

Lambert asks minority contractors to prove discrimination as part of Trump's DEI crackdown Civil rights organizations, including both St. Louis and St. Louis County NAACP chapters, decried the changes announced by the airport officials.

NEW from me:

Months after turmoil engulfed the city’s minority program, the feds are upending DOT’s own diversity program.

Thousands of local businesses are impacted

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5 things to know about data centers and the debate over them in the St. Louis area From St. Louis to St. Charles, the topic of data centers has generated debate and controversy. Here's a look at the key issues.

5 things to know about data centers and the debate over them in the St. Louis area www.stltoday.com/news/local/m...

A Bari Weiss-led CBS News would likely look different, but how the public feels about it might not change The public’s relationship with news is defined more by its skepticism of the profession than by its impressions of journalists or media outlets.

“People’s relationship with news ... has less to do with what the news actually looks like than it does with people’s assumption that journalism is compromised by the pursuit of profit.” theconversation.com/a-bari-weiss... #journalism

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