CITY HALL – The Board of Estimate and Apportionment approved on Wednesday a nearly eight-month extension to NorthSide Regeneration developer Paul McKee to show evidence of financing for a medical facility…
Day: February 19, 2020
Missouri anti-carjacking bill advances
JEFFERSON CITY (AP) — Missouri lawmakers advanced on Wednesday a bill to give more options for prosecuting people for carjackings, a move praised by some as a way to combat…
Freeholders selection process edges forward
CITY HALL – It’s getting warmer outside, as is, perhaps, the effort to name nine city representatives to the city-county Board of Freeholders. On Wednesday, members of the aldermanic Intergovernmental…
Tour of Civil Rights sites teaches importance of history
February is well known as Black History Month. But the month of March is important in Civil Rights history. One particularly poignant event happened on March 9, 1965, when the…
UrbArts' 2020 Youth Poet Laureate hopes to heal, change lives
ST. LOUIS – The finger-snapping and conferring is in, and 16-year-old Sarah Abbas, a junior at Marquette High School, is the 2020 St. Louis Youth Poet Laureate, UrbArts recently announced. …
Recipes for respect: Book describes black food
By Rosalind Early If you read “Gone With the Wind” or “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” popular but inaccurate depictions of life in the American South during slavery, you’ll see the stereotypical…