Last Saturday, the City of St. Louis Department of Health and its community partners provided 1,352 first doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine to residents in North St. Louis. The community vaccination clinic was held at the Omega Center on Goodfellow Boulevard to enable some of the most v…
City officials approved a $1.5 million budget transfer Feb. 17 to repair the broken locks at the St. Louis City Justice Center – an issue largely blamed for the magnitude of the inmate uprising in February.
On March 15, Missouri Governor Mike Parson says he will open up the COVID vaccinations to individuals in Phase 1B - Tier 3 of the state’s COVID-19 Vaccine Plan. In a news release it says newly eligible will include “K-12 educators and school employees; child care providers; grocery store emp…
FOCUS St. Louis recently named 30 participants as part of its Spring 2021 Emerging Leaders cohort. The three-month Emerging Leaders program provides professionals between the ages of 22-35 with the opportunity to strengthen their personal, professional, and civic engagement leadership skills.
Longtime St. Louis Comptroller Darlene Green won her primary on Tuesday with 78.16% of the vote. She ran unopposed.
Laura Hughes’ memory of growing up in the Ville neighborhood of St. Louis is mapped out by the neighborhood’s sidewalks. She remembers walking first to Simmons Elementary, then to Sumner High School – and sometimes walking to drop-off meals with her mother as she worked at Homer G. Philips H…
Sixty-one-year-old Danny Thomas walked out of Fanning Elementary School in Tower Grove South on Tuesday morning having done something he had never done before in his life: Vote.
It took Nethra Hill a few minutes to recall what she did for a living before she married and became a stay-at-home mom.
Show Me Integrity volunteers are outside polling places Tuesday petitioning for a November ballot initiative that would seek to shift the responsibility of redrawing the city’s wards from the Board of Aldermen to an independent citizen redistricting commission.
The Conflict Resolution Center - St. Louis (CRCSTL) is reopening applications for residents of St. Louis City in need of rental assistance as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Vernon Jordan, civil rights leader, business and political power broker, who advised presidents and business executives, died Monday evening at his home in Washington, D.C.
Tishaura Jones, the current Treasurer for the City of St. Louis, is the strongest and clearest choice for its Mayor. Ms. Jones is an experienced and capable public official, having served at the state level in the Missouri House of Representatives for five years, and at the local level, havi…
Strict distancing mandates reduced capacity at some shelters
As the St. Louis mayoral primary approaches, individuals and organizations have publicly announced who they hope will become the city’s most powerful leader. Below is a look at each candidate’s endorsements thus far.
In her early years, Alethia Browning Tanner sold vegetables in a produce stall near President’s Square – now known as Lafayette Square – in Northwest Washington, D.C.
On Saturday, February 27, the City of St. Louis Department of Health will host a closed, appointment-only COVID-19 vaccination site from 8:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m., administering 1,750 doses of the Moderna vaccine at the Omega Center, located at 3900 Goodfellow Blvd.
For three and a half years – 1,252 days to be exact – Alex Garcia spent every day and every night at Christ Church UCC in Maplewood. Garcia, who took sanctuary in the church under threat of deportation September 21, 2017, was able to go home for the first time on Wednesday, thanks to the Bid…
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Republican state Senators advanced sweeping legislation early Tuesday morning aimed at penalizing protestors who block streets, while also providing further protections for law enforcement under investigation for misconduct or excessive force.
One-hundred local progressive leaders came together Tuesday to endorse St. Louis Treasurer Tishaura Jones in her bid to become the city’s next mayor, joining a long list of local and out-of-state support Jones has received since she announced her campaign Nov. 4.
President Joe Biden and Dr. Jill Biden stood with Vice President Kamala Harris and first gentleman Doug Emhoff, as they bowed their heads on the South portico of the White House while a Marine band played “Amazing Grace” in a ceremony on Monday, Feb. 22, 2021, honoring over 500,000 lives los…
Arthur Kelley could barely raise his voice above a whisper last fall when he told a nursing assistant he never wanted his wife, Maggie, to be alone. After almost 60 years of marriage, five children and a lifetime filled with more victories than defeat, Kelley wanted to be there for his ailin…
With one week until the primary election in St. Louis, mayoral candidates’ political action committees (PACs) are raking in big money from influential donors.
The St. Louis primary mayoral election is less than two weeks away on March 2, and it will determine the two top candidates who will advance to the general election on April 6.
When I first saw the images of three gaping openings at the City Justice Center, I saw them as possible escape routes. If I was one of the detainees who knocked out the windows on Feb. 6 in protest of conditions, I think I would’ve jumped for safety and supported the demands from an unknown…
Journalist, author and syndicated columnist Roland Martin is here in St. Louis this weekend to support mayoral candidate St. Louis Treasurer Tishaura Jones’ bid for office.
Gov. Mike Parson signed into law Feb. 11 legislation allocating $324 million in funding for rental assistance — part of the COVID-19 relief package passed by Congress in December.
ACLU of Missouri employees on Wednesday joined a growing movement of nonprofit workers by announcing they have unionized.
Mary Eliza Mahoney in 1879 was the first Black person in the United States to earn a nursing degree.
St. Louis group advocates for better health care for Black people.
Treasurer Tishaura O. Jones’ Statement on the St. Louis Post-Dispatch Editorial Board’s Endorsement
If you watched the response by City officials to the recent uprising in the City’s downtown jail and felt a sinking sense of déjà vu, it’s because we’ve been here before.
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U.S. Rep. Cori Bush, D-Missouri, on Feb. 4 announced her subcommittee assignments for the legislative session.
2021 St. Louis mayoral candidates respond
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On Tuesday, Feb. 16, from 12 to 3 p.m., UnitedHealthcare will host a virtual job fair to fill 85 full-time, inside sales positions based in St. Louis. The job openings are in UnitedHealthcare’s Medicare line of business. A signing bonus is available for licensed candidates.Interested candida…
Missouri’s troublingly slow COVID vaccine delivery to the state’s hardest affected areas coexists with COVID vaccine hesitancy among African Americans and other people of color. They are among the populations that have been hardest hit with illness and deaths from the SARS-CoV2 coronavirus d…
Last month, the St. Louis Public Schools Board of Education voted to close six schools due to declining enrollment numbers.
Several local advocacy groups on Wednesday asked the city to allow attorneys to inspect the conditions at the City Justice Center following last weekend’s uprising. However, the city responded with a resounding “no” and an accusation that these organizations “clearly intended to spread a fal…
ArchCity Defenders and their co-counsel DLA Piper on Thursday requested an emergency hearing to be held Friday to address living conditions for inmates at the Medium Security Institution, otherwise known as the Workhouse.
Federal retail pharmacy program to begin vaccinations in Missouri
The St. Louis County government congratulated the dispatcher who used a racial slur over the radio on his recent retirement in their February newsletter.
A Black St. Louis County police lieutenant colonel on Wednesday sued the county for discrimination after he said he was passed over for a promotion to chief of police, a position instead given to a white woman.
A Republican Missouri senator has introduced a bill that would withhold state money from municipalities that reduce funding for their police departments and decriminalize hitting protesters with a vehicle or using other deadly force against them.
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