All four incumbent city council members that supported a $6 billion data center development Festus lost their seat to anti-data center opponents tonight. Story coming tomorrow.
📸: @brianmunoz.bsky.social
This took a ton of research and document delving by @kgrumke.bsky.social.
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Hey Patricia. Thanks for the heads up. I was out sick today but I'll talk to my editors about this.
My latest.
Biz leaders in Midtown area are hoping to get a new kind of TIF approved www.stltoday.com/news/local/b...
"Through bold advocacy and cutting-edge litigation, the work of this office has helped make Missouri a more just and decent place."
While a distributor in Belleville says they'll keep distributing Stag kegs, others in the St. Louis region won't be — and a Maplewood bar even had a Stag funeral since it will no longer be carried on tap. @stlpublicradio.bsky.social
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NEW: The Federal Emergency Management Agency has told St. Louis it will not pay for most building demolitions the city hoped would be covered.
✍️: @kgrumke.bsky.social and me.
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Trans Kansans are getting letters on the eve of a new state law going into effect informing them that their driver’s licenses will be considered invalid as of TODAY.
“Please note that the Legislature did not include a grace period for updating credentials," read the letters mailed Monday.
NEW: Hearing set for data center portion of $3 billion Armory project.
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She's just like me, foreal.
Sunshine requests in City of STL still need reform. @gconnolly314.bsky.social requested data center info from Zoning on Feb 5 & was charged $22.07 for a PARTIAL copy. The same info was requested 11 days later and charged $0 but given FULL public record. Arbitrary and capricious?
Eberechi Eze scored a hat-trick against Tottenham Hotspur in November.
And he has a brace today.
Daylight for Mikel Arteta's Arsenal in the north London derby — they lead 3-1.
Bottle that. #arsenal
NEW: After announcing plans to ramp up repairs to 40-100 homes a month in North City, St. Louis officials in charge of tornado recovery say the city may run out of funds to repair those homes by April or May.
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"You can't regulate a dumpster fire."
- Quote of the week from tonight's Planning Commission public hearing on data center zoning rules.
Strong reporting from my colleague, Sarah Fentem.
The report notes:
"Many of the [tornado recover programs] struggled to take applications and, up until now, have denied hundreds of applicants. Others launched so long after the tornado hit that many residents STLPR interviewed said they had turned elsewhere for aid or given up entirely."
Important reporting out today from @kavahnmansouri.bsky.social:
One tornado-impacted St. Louis resident told him, “I'm not spending my precious time and my precious energy holding out hope for the city … I'm going to reserve that for my neighbors.”
My latest on tornado recovery in North St. Louis.
“There's so much red tape, and nobody knows what they're doing... Everybody is falling through the cracks.”
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@kavahnmansouri.bsky.social and @kgrumke.bsky.social continue to do great reporting on data centers in our region. Here’s their latest from today: www.stlpr.org/economy-busi...
NEW: St. Louis officials have released a rough draft of zoning rules for data centers. I talked with city planning executive Miriam Keller about the proposed rules. www.stlpr.org/government-p...
NEW: As public pushback against data center proposals in the St. Louis region raged, a nonprofit seeking to grow development in the region took public officials and Ameren on multiple trips to visit hyperscale data centers.
From @kgrumke.bsky.social and me.
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Honesty took her own life shortly after leaving prison. Her family, friends and legal representation gathered today to honor her. Please learn about her. She had a tragic life but still found a way to see the good in it and pass it on. She fought to make sure others wouldn't endure what she did.
For years, Honesty behaved but prison officials refused to release her from solitary confinement. Documents show officials rarely gave reason for her continued isolation. While investigating this story her documented words to an official, "I've been good," stuck with me.
For more than 2,000 days, the Missouri Department of Corrections held Honesty, a transgender woman, in a solitary confinement cell no larger than a parking space. Why? Because a male inmate attempted to sexually assault her. As a carrier of HIV, MODOC policy mandated she be locked away.
Today the @macarthurjustice.bsky.social held a memorial for Honesty Bishop, who @katiereports.bsky.social and I wrote about last year. She would have been 34. Her story is tragic and unbelievable, but her strength led to the end of the very Missouri prison policy that tormented her.
