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Politics
Mayor’s office kept out of committee meeting on COVID relief
CITY HALL – An aldermanic committee held on Tuesday the first of several meetings to discuss how to spend $80…
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Coronavirus
County invests more than $10.5 million in CARES funding to ease food insecurity
ST. LOUIS COUNTY – The county reports that it has spent more than $10 million it received through the federal…
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News
County Library helps older adults reach loved ones, with GrandPads
ST. LOUIS COUNTY – The St. Louis County Library is giving out 1,500 GrandPad tablets bought with CARES Act funds to area older adults. The GrandPad…
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Coronavirus
Missouri in no rush to spend $2.7B of flexible pandemic aid
JEFFERSON CITY (AP) — Missouri will get nearly $2.7 billion of flexible federal aid under a coronavirus relief law, but…
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Push to put benefit limits on Missouri unemployment debt goes down in House
A bill to forgive mistakenly paid unemployment benefit from 2020 will include a waiver for debts to the state but won’t include…
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Coronavirus
Missouri lawmaker faces more charges for alleged COVID-19 treatment scam
LIBERTY, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri state lawmaker already indicted on 20 charges related to a fraud scheme involving medical…
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Coronavirus
Missouri House panel votes to forgive federal unemployment debts
Thousands of Missourians facing repayment of mistakenly paid unemployment benefits would get some relief under legislation passed with a bipartisan vote Wednesday…
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Business
Parson signs bill to OK $324 million for rental aid
Gov. Mike Parson signed into law Thursday legislation allocating $324 million in funding for rental assistance — part of the COVID-19 relief…
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Business
State eyes federal funds to cover mistakenly paid unemployment
A legislative committee may have found a way to relieve all the debt of Missourians who were mistakenly paid too much from…
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Business
Lawmakers question tough stance on jobless overpayments
Missouri will demand repayment of any unemployment money it paid in error to residents since the COVID-19 pandemic began —…
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Coronavirus
Tiny house village near downtown gets first residents
DOWNTOWN WEST – The first residents have moved into the tiny “village” being built near downtown for otherwise homeless people,…
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Business
Minority-owned companies waited months for loans
NEW YORK (AP) — Thousands of minority-owned small businesses were at the end of the line in the government’s coronavirus…
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Coronavirus
Local officials hope, worry as virus strains health system
ST. LOUIS – Officials entered 2021 with the hope that vaccines will eventually eliminate the scourge of COVID-19, but also…
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Coronavirus
House passes $900 billion COVID relief, catchall measure
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House easily passed a $900 billion pandemic relief package Monday night that would finally deliver long-sought…
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Business
Congress seals deal for $900 billion in COVID relief
WASHINGTON (AP) — Top Capitol Hill negotiators sealed a deal Sunday on a $900 billion COVID-19 economic relief package, finally…
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Coronavirus
Election board gets $75,000 more to aid spring voting
CITY HALL – the Board of Estimate and Apportionment, the city’s top fiscal body, has agreed to spend an additional…
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Business
Missouri rental aid may lag lifting of federal eviction freeze
Missourians who have fallen behind on their rent due to the pandemic can seek relief through the Missouri Emergency Rental Arrears…
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Featured
First tiny houses roll in for ‘village’ on north side
CITY HALL (AP) — The first tiny houses of what will form a village for otherwise homeless people rolled into…
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Business
Congress wrestles with COVID-19 relief deal
WASHINGTON (AP) — After numerous fits and starts and months of inaction, optimism is finally building in Washington for a…
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Coronavirus
Missouri Senate approves COVID spending bill
The Missouri Senate approved on Wednesday a $1.3 billion bill to spend remaining federal CARES Act, funds, without any debate…
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Coronavirus
People exposed to virus may need to trace own contacts
New cases of the novel coronavirus are so rampant that Missouri’s local health departments can’t investigate them all, meaning some…
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Coronavirus
Missouri Senate to vote this week on COVID-19 funding
The Missouri Senate will meet this week to consider a $1.3 billion COVID-19 spending bill, but the timeline for debating…
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Tiny house village planned near downtown
CITY HALL (AP) — St. Louis is planning a village of tiny homes to provide shelter for the homeless, and…
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Coronavirus
Billion in federal virus aid still unspent in Missouri
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Missouri has less than two months to spend roughly $1 billion in federal coronavirus aid, the…
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Coronavirus
Missouri to release $133 million for education, virus aid, more
(AP) — Missouri will release about $133 million in funding to support critical services — including $61.5 million in CARES…
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Coronavirus
Missouri pays pandemic consultant more than $500,000
JEFFERSON CITY (AP) — Missouri has paid a consulting firm more than $500,000 in emergency federal funding for pandemic-related costs,…
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Business
McConnell eyes virus aid as evictions, benefits cuts loom
WASHINGTON (AP) — An eviction moratorium is lifting. Extra unemployment benefits are ending. Parents are being called to work, but…
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Coronavirus
City prepares to receive $64 million for COVID-19 relief
CITY HALL – More help is on the way to fight COVID-19, once the Board of Aldermen finishes work on…
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Business
Missouri schools getting more aid from federal CARES act
JEFFERSON CITY – Missouri’s schools are getting a new influx of funds from the federal government under the Coronavirus Aid,…
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