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3 days ago | 
stlpr.org | Eric Schmid
Tariffs can increase revenue and protect domestic industry, but achieving the latter goal takes time and will require domestic manufacturers to find different sources of materials in the short term.
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2 weeks ago | 
stlpr.org | Viet Thanh Nguyen |Kate Folk
Who are you, anyway? It's a simple question. Just complete a name tag at the welcome table and you'll be fine, right? But behind that fig leaf there's a freshet of complications, contradictions and still other questions of identity, not least of which is: Who gets to decide? A handful of notable books coming out this week, each in its own way, offer stabs at an explanation - or, at least a deeper understanding of the questions involved.
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3 weeks ago | 
stlpr.org | Will Bauer
The old Broadview Hotel has been converted into a 110-unit apartment building for residents over 55 years old. East St. Louis leaders believe this project will anchor future economic development.
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1 month ago | 
stlpr.org | Lacretia Wimbley
More people are moving to the St. Louis metropolitan area, but experts warn that declining births will eventually impact the region's economy. On Thursday, the U.S. Census Bureau published its population estimates for 2024, showing that the 15 counties across the St. Louis Metropolitan Statistical Area gained 6,420 new people last year, which is the region's largest increase since 2010.
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1 month ago | 
stlpr.org | Lacretia Wimbley
As interim commissioner of corrections, Doug Burris has been at the helm of the St. Louis City Justice Center, where 18 detainees have died since 2020, since late January,Burris is a nationally recognized expert in corrections and is credited with turning things around at the St. Louis County jail, where at the height of that facility's troubles, five people died in custody in 2019.
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1 month ago | 
stlpr.org | Lacretia Wimbley
Most of the U.S. lost an hour of sleep this weekend after moving clocks forward for daylight saving time, but a bill making its way through the Illinois legislature proposes to make that the last time Illinoisans lose sleep for the tradition. would amend the Standard Time Act, so daylight saving time would be the year-round standard time of the entire state, according to the bill's primary sponsor, Rep. Bob Morgan, D-Deerfield.
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1 month ago | 
stlpr.org | Lacretia Wimbley
The St. Louis City Democratic Central Committee officially endorsed Alderwoman Cara Spencer for mayor on Saturday, a rare show of support for a challenger against an incumbent of the same party. The Democratic Central Committee met with 26 of their 28 members from all 14 Wards, and the group cast votes on who to support for mayor and comptroller. Incumbent Tishaura Jones had nine supporters in the final vote for mayor, and Spencer had 15, with two members abstaining.
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1 month ago | 
stlpr.org | Lacretia Wimbley
Dorrisa Ellis, 33, has worked as a Personal Support Assistant at the Veterans Benefits Administration St. Louis Regional Office in Overland since October, but she and at least 19 of her colleagues recently received an email from the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs notifying them of their immediate termination. Ellis is a union member of the American Federation of Government Employees Local 2192.
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1 month ago | 
stlpr.org | Lacretia Wimbley
The St. Louis Zoo is losing adored polar bear Kali but has welcomed 2-year-old polar bear twins to take his place. Kali moved to St. Louis in 2015 and was the first polar bear to take residence in the 40,000-square-foot polar bear habitat called McDonnell Polar Bear Point. But on Tuesday, Kali was shipped off to his new home in Ohio where he will, for the first time, mate with Crystal, a 26-year-old resident polar bear at the Toledo Zoo.
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1 month ago | 
stlpr.org | Lacretia Wimbley
The field of aldermanic candidates is set for St. Louis' April 8 general election. Voters will select representatives for the Board of Aldermen's seven odd-numbered wards. Only two wards had contested primaries in the March 4 primary. Ward 3 candidates Shane Cohn and Dallas Adams and Ward 11 candidates Laura Keys and Rebecca McCloud earned spots on the April ballot.