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Kelsey Landis

@kelseylandis.bsky.social
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Government accountability reporter for @stltoday.bsky.social • Past: Belleville News-Democrat, The Alton Telegraph • je parle français • SLPS mom • 🏳️‍🌈

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Josh Renaud @kirkman.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Hundreds of thousands of Missourians will vote in different congressional districts on Nov. 3 than they did in August. Officials and voters alike say the flip-flop is causing confusion and anger. @kelseylandis.bsky.social looks at the impact of the change. www.stltoday.com/news/local/g...
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What races are you voting on? For thousands of Missourians, the options just changed
Hundreds of thousands of Missourians will vote in different districts than they did in August. "Everybody gets to vote. It’s just that the lines have changed."
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Steph Kukuljan @stephkukuljan.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Who intervened? www.stltoday.com/news/local/g...
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'Elected official' derails St. Louis board's vote on data center rules
The St. Louis Planning Commission meeting devolved into confusion and anger late Wednesday after an undisclosed "elected official" urged commissioners to rethink their decisions around the city's new ...
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Josh Renaud @kirkman.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Zimmerman bested Williams by 20,642 votes, according to complete but unofficial returns. Mosley garnered 31,982 votes, more than enough for Williams to have closed the gap between him and Zimmerman. Story by @kelseylandis.bsky.social www.stltoday.com/news/local/g...
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch @stltoday.com · 27/04/2026
Despite some stormy activity Monday morning, “the most potent thunderstorms will occur this afternoon and evening,” said the National Weather Service’s local forecast office.
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Updated forecast has possible tornadoes, hail and rain storms in St. Louis area by 5 p.m.
Despite some stormy activity Monday morning, “the most potent thunderstorms will occur this afternoon and evening,” said the National Weather Service’s local forecast office.
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Missouri Independent @missouriindependent.com · 29/12/2025
A trio of newspapers that cover Missouri’s capital city and surrounding communities will now be run by a familiar and polarizing figure in state politics whose career has been marked by scandal. #moleg #mogov
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New owner with checkered political past takes over newspaper serving Missouri’s capital • Missouri Independent
A trio of newspapers that cover Missouri’s capital city and surrounding communities will now be run by a polarizing figure in state politics.
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch @stltoday.com · 03/12/2025
One councilman said County Executive Sam Page doesn't have the power to veto budget legislation from the council. Page disagrees.
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Page says he will veto 'unreasonable' budget cuts. Council says he can't do that.
One councilman said County Executive Sam Page doesn't have the power to veto budget legislation from the council. Page disagrees.
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Josh Renaud @kirkman.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Property taxes are rising across the region, but nowhere more than in a handful of neighborhoods in southeastern St. Louis, where residents have been shocked to receive statements with eye-popping increases in bills. From @kelseylandis.bsky.social and me. www.stltoday.com/news/local/g...
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Some St. Louis residents are seeing huge spikes in property taxes. What happened?
Property taxes are rising across the region, but nowhere more than some south St. Louis neighborhoods. Residents there are getting eye-popping bills.
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Josh Renaud @kirkman.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Rents across the #STL region are soaring, but nowhere more than neighborhoods that have become targets of real estate investors. Four of the ZIP codes with the top increases in rent since 2023 are in a swath of North County from the airport to the Mississippi. www.stltoday.com/news/local/g...
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Rents soar across St. Louis region, especially where investors buy homes
Rents across the region are soaring, but nowhere more so than neighborhoods that have become the targets of real estate investors.
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch @stltoday.com · 31/10/2025
Missouri’s system is so overloaded that even people accused of low-level crimes now wait years for mental health treatment.
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‘Lost’ in Missouri jail cells: Backlog soars for people found mentally unfit for trial
Missouri’s system is so overloaded that even people accused of low-level crimes now wait years for mental health treatment.
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Kelsey Landis @kelseylandis.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Worries about where the next meal will come from weigh heavily on St. Louis-area residents as the federal government shutdown threatens SNAP and the Trump administration cuts food assistance. www.stltoday.com/news/local/g...
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St. Louis residents turn to food banks amid aid cuts. 'Everything you need is going up'
A grandmother who has seven family members living with her. A woman who's four months behind on her mortgage. A family displaced by May's tornado in St. Louis.
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Kelsey Landis @kelseylandis.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
The new museum documents the history and evolution of midwifery as it started in Africa and spread across the globe. www.stltoday.com/news/local/m...
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Jamaa Birth Village in Ferguson adds school, library and a museum of Black midwifery
Black midwives throughout history were not only experts in the birth process but also served as healers, herbalists, spiritual advisors and therapists for mothers and their families.
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Josh Renaud @kirkman.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
New data obtained by @stltoday.com indicates hundreds of the buildings mangled by the May 16 tornado in St. Louis were likely vacant before the storm even hit. That could hobble the city's efforts to rebuild the neighborhoods hit hardest by the storm. www.stltoday.com/news/local/g...
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Hundreds of St. Louis houses hit by May tornado were vacant. That will hurt recovery.
The Post-Dispatch found that 1,175 structures, more than half of those declared unsafe, were likely or definitely vacant before the May 16 tornado.
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Beth O'Malley @stlbeth.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Besides being an excellent coworker, Josh is a bicyclist, “antique” digital game enthusiast and a great person. Please consider a donation to honor his daughter.
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Kelsey Landis @kelseylandis.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
In two court filings Wednesday, attorneys for Sam Page poked holes in the Missouri AG's criminal case against the county executive. www.stltoday.com/news/local/g...
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Case against St. Louis County executive is rife with errors, attorneys say
Attorneys asked a judge on Wednesday to dismiss the case against Sam Page, saying it included false information and illogical legal arguments.
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Kelsey Landis @kelseylandis.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Having a newsroom across the street from the SLPS administrative building has its reporting perks. www.stltoday.com/news/local/e...
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Millicent Borishade is out as St. Louis Public Schools superintendent
Millicent Borishade has been fired after a rocky 15-month tenure.
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Kelsey Landis @kelseylandis.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
The planned stoppage has food banks across the state girding for a rise in need if food stamp recipients lose the benefit, which averages about $370 per household per month. www.stltoday.com/news/local/g... ✍️ Kurt Erickson
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More than 650,000 Missourians to lose food stamp benefits next month under shutdown
More than 320,000 Missouri households rely on federal food stamp benefits to supplement their groceries
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Administrators at Indiana University baselessly fired the student media director and ordered the student paper to cease its print edition, so it'd sure be a shame if this excellent digital front page were to be widely shared today issuu.com/idsnews/docs...
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Steph Kukuljan @stephkukuljan.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Illinois warned 3 other communities months ago that harmful “forever chemicals” had been detected in their municipal water supplies, long before the issue came out publicly at a Collinsville city council meeting last month www.stltoday.com/news/local/i...
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It wasn't just Collinsville. 'Forever chemicals' hit 3 other Metro East cities
The state's Environmental Protection Agency issued public notices to water system operators in Bethalto, East Alton and Edwardsville in April, before Collinsville alerted the public to its problems.
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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.com · 10/10/2025
BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook) Follow @heartlandsignal for more.
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch @stltoday.com · 06/10/2025
The extended summer-like heat is part of a decades-long trend both in St. Louis and across the country.
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Hot spell shows how summers are getting longer and falls shorter in St. Louis
The extended summer-like heat is part of a decades-long trend both in St. Louis and across the country.
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Kelsey Landis @kelseylandis.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
I wrote about a similar measure introduced by a county councilman a few years ago. It failed amid free speech concerns. Now another councilman is trying again though a federal judge struck down St. Louis County's panhandling laws in 2021. www.stltoday.com/news/local/g...
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Councilman to introduce roadway panhandling ban in St. Louis County
Similar ordinances have been struck down as a violation of First Amendment free speech rights.
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Kelsey Landis @kelseylandis.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
The progress officials have long said would come with the new NGA campus has not arrived at everyone’s doorstep in north St. Louis. ✍️ @stephkukuljan.bsky.social www.stltoday.com/news/local/g...
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On eve of NGA opening, neighborhoods still waiting for a boost
The progress officials have long said would come with the new NGA campus has not arrived at everyone’s doorstep in north St. Louis.
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Kelsey Landis @kelseylandis.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
The "lost art" of handwritten notes is back. ✍️ @monicaobradovic.bsky.social www.stltoday.com/news/local/e...
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Missouri school cellphone ban: Fewer fights, less anxiety, more 'boredom' for students
Missouri educators report more social interaction. Students play games or read books instead of scrolling on social media. And handwritten notes are back.
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Kelsey Landis @kelseylandis.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
I set out to determine how far our local sewer district has come in cleaning up our local waterways. 💩🚫💧 It has done a ton of work, but even after $7 billion in spending, the region's massive network of pipes will still spew untreated sewage into our area rivers. www.stltoday.com/news/local/g...
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St. Louis area is spending billions to clean rivers. It'll still dump sewage in them.
The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District has spent $3.2 billion and capped more than 100 overflow pipes, about half the work required by a federal settlement.
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Kelsey Landis @kelseylandis.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
"These districts were drawn to withstand a political earthquake," one expert said. ✍️ @kirkman.bsky.social www.stltoday.com/news/local/g...
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Missouri congressional redistricting would cement GOP control, analysis shows
Had the boundaries been in place in 2020, Republicans would have secured double-digit margins of victory in seven of the eight Missouri congressional districts, a Post-Dispatch analysis found.
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Kavahn Mansouri @kavahnmansouri.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
@kgrumke.bsky.social and I delved into the documents on this one, revealing a network of shell companies that connect the stalled St. Charles project to the search giant. www.stlpr.org/economy-busi...
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Documents link secretive St. Charles data center to Google
St. Charles officials signed nondisclosure agreements as they considered a proposed data center project in their city. The agreements were with a company with links to Google.
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch @stltoday.com · 03/09/2025
JEFFERSON CITY — The Missouri House launched a controversial special session Wednesday that could drastically alter the state’s congressional boundaries and make it harder for citizens to change the state Constitution.
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Trump-backed redistricting plan begins trek through Missouri's Republican Legislature
JEFFERSON CITY — The Missouri House launched a controversial special session Wednesday that could drastically alter the state’s congressional boundaries and make it harder for citizens to change the state
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch @stltoday.com · 02/09/2025
The County Council first earmarked $11 million of federal pandemic relief money in fall 2022 for demolishing derelict properties.
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First house comes down 3 years after St. Louis County approved demolition project
The County Council first earmarked $11 million of federal pandemic relief money in fall 2022 for demolishing derelict properties.
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Steph Kukuljan @stephkukuljan.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Starting Friday, @stltoday.com will have NO PAYWALL Reading the paper makes you smarter 🧠, cooler 💅 and a good person 😇 (paywall returns Wednesday)
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Kavahn Mansouri @kavahnmansouri.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
After her cellmate beat and tried to sexually assault her, Missouri prison officials kept Honesty in solitary confinement for SIX YEARS. Why? A little-known policy that allowed Missouri to keep incarcerated people living with HIV they deem sexually active in isolation. www.stlpr.org/law-order/20...
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A trans woman with HIV spent years in solitary. She sued to make Missouri change its policy
Honesty Bishop was attacked by her cellmate. Missouri prison officials deemed her sexually active and kept her in isolation for more than 2,000 days.
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Kavahn Mansouri @kavahnmansouri.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Some not so breaking news, I've started work as @stlpublicradio.bsky.social's new economic development reporter! Have a tip/story or just want to chat? Let's get to know each other. Drop me a line a KMansouri@stlpr.org. www.stlpr.org/2025-08-18/s...
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STLPR hires Kavahn Mansouri as its Economic Development Reporter
Kavahn Mansouri joins St. Louis Public Radio from the NPR Midwest Newsroom, where he served as an investigative reporter covering Iowa, Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska for three and a half years.
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Kelsey Landis @kelseylandis.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
The fate of a controversial 440-acre data center is in doubt following allegations that the site is largely owned by a relative of St. Charles Mayor Dan Borgmeyer. ✍️ Ethan Colbert www.stltoday.com/news/local/s...
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Mayor's cousin owns site of planned data center in St. Charles. Mayor withdraws support
City councilmembers said on Monday that they didn't know Dan Borgmeyer was related to the data center site's owner.
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Kelsey Landis @kelseylandis.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Good opportunity here to shift to using your local grocer's bulk section. Local Harvest in Tower Grove South has a bunch of products in bulk (maple syrup, olive oil, rice) and provides reusable containers. Any other places I should know about?? www.stltoday.com/news/local/g...
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St. Louis ends alley recycling. Mayor says it's not working.
The city says that before alley collection was suspended in June, half of blue-bin contents went to the landfill.
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Robert Cohen @kodacohen.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
3 months after tornado, St. Louis residents face a harsh reality. 'Not going to be rebuilt.' Nice work by Seth Nelson and Laurie Skrivan
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3 months after tornado, St. Louis residents face a harsh reality. 'Not going to be rebuilt.'
Some residents still cling to the hope that their homes can be rebuilt. But many have already left, doubting that rebuilding is worth the effort.
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Beth O'Malley @stlbeth.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
"The district's long-term plans also do not address if/when the district will discontinue its deficit spending and use of budget reserves to meet planned expenditures." By FY 2031, the district will "not have sufficient funds to complete the school year."
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch @stltoday.com · 31/07/2025
The charges against Page could be a litmus test for a charge that has, until now, mostly been used by state ethics authorities to issue civil fines.
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Criminal case against Sam Page is first of its kind in Missouri, experts say
The charges against Page could be a litmus test for a charge that has, until now, mostly been used by state ethics authorities to issue civil fines.
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Kelsey Landis @kelseylandis.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Three Republican County Council members said Page should resign. www.stltoday.com/news/local/g...
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Sam Page indicted on election crimes, felony stealing in St. Louis County
The investigation is related to a mailer the county sent out for an April ballot proposition, Page's attorney, Jeff Jensen, said Tuesday.
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Jacob Barker @jacobbarker27.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Drug charges tied to federal probe of former St. Louis architect, ex-Mercy Health executive www.stltoday.com/news/local/c...
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Drug charges tied to federal probe of former St. Louis architect, ex-Mercy Health executive
Sources told the Post-Dispatch the arrest of an alleged drug dealer is tied to a wider probe of a former St. Louis architect and ex-health care executive.
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Steph Kukuljan @stephkukuljan.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Me & @kirkman.bsky.social spent months looking into a new firm called Truehold, now one of the largest real estate investors in #STL. Its biz model: Buys houses & offers to lease them back to sellers. It's a strategy that's faced scrutiny when used by other firms www.stltoday.com/news/local/b...
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Firm buys 700 homes in St. Louis area with unusual offer of ‘easy’ cash
“Join the thousands of people who have unlocked their home equity with Truehold,” said one letter sent to homeowners.
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Robert Cohen @kodacohen.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
There is a lot of talk, post-tornado, about what will happen to St. Louis brick from heavily damaged homes. A few years ago reporter Jesse Bogan and I took a deep look at that brick - how it's harvested, what it's worth and where it ends up. www.stltoday.com/news/local/m...
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Brick by brick: A St. Louis home comes down, leaving memories — and another empty lot
The bungalow on Louisiana Avenue stood for 93 years, but couldn't escape the 'march of time' in a city that's seen better days.
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Evie Hemphill @evhemphill.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
"Within the span of four days, the Brown family faced the reality of two destroyed homes, as well as the loss of its matriarch and any semblance of a certain future." Important, in-depth, heart-rending local reporting on this ongoing crisis, by @monicaobradovic.bsky.social
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After tornado, family tries to save its home and legacy on historic St. Louis street
The Shelley House played a role in paving the way for minority homeownership. After the tornado, residents on the street try to save their family histories.
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch @stltoday.com · 02/06/2025
Here's a look at the news two weeks after an EF-3 tornado hit areas of St. Louis on May 16, 2025. Video by Allie Schallert Read full coverage of the May 16 tornado here: go.stltoday.com/516tornado?utm_medi… 
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Jacob Barker @jacobbarker27.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
St. Louis mayor vows to keep tornado-displaced residents in city www.stltoday.com/news/local/g...
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St. Louis mayor vows to keep tornado-displaced residents in city
Spencer campaigned on reversing the city’s long-running population decline, and said on Tuesday she wouldn’t waver now.
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Kelsey Landis @kelseylandis.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Fine work by my colleagues who assessed home insurance rates in North City and shared the stories of those who don't have it. www.stltoday.com/news/local/m...
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On some St. Louis streets, 70% of tornado victims are uninsured. Can recovery happen?
The sheer number of uninsured properties will complicate recovery in neighborhoods that were already among the poorest in the St. Louis region.
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch @stltoday.com · 20/05/2025
Spencer said "human failure" and confusing protocol kept the city's outdoor sirens from being deployed before Friday's tornado.
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St. Louis mayor says warning sirens weren't deployed properly before tornado
Spencer said "human failure" and confusing protocol kept the city's outdoor sirens from being deployed before Friday's tornado.
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch @stltoday.com · 19/05/2025
In north St. Louis, residents are staying in wrecked homes, keeping watch from their front yards and sleeping in their cars.
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Tornado victims in St. Louis neighborhoods are hunkering down in broken houses
In north St. Louis, residents are staying in wrecked homes, keeping watch from their front yards and sleeping in their cars.
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Kelsey Landis @kelseylandis.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
The incident appeared to be an unusual attempt by a government to compel a citizen — of another city and state — to testify about a comment he wrote on social media. ✍️ Nassim Benchaabane www.stltoday.com/news/local/g...
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Man jokes about Riverview mayor online. Mayor sends him a subpoena.
The incident appeared to be an unusual attempt by a government to compel a citizen to testify about a comment he wrote on social media.
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Jacob Barker @jacobbarker27.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
After state takeover, St. Louis to charge police department for city services www.stltoday.com/news/local/g... via @stltoday.com @ahuguelet.bsky.social
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After state takeover, St. Louis to charge police department for city services
The state is requiring St. Louis to spend more on police. Most of the new money this year is set to pay the city back for services.
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Kelsey Landis @kelseylandis.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
“Never in my life did I think that someone that I knew was going to be the pope." ✍️ @stephkukuljan.bsky.social www.stltoday.com/news/local/m...
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Pope Leo XIV in St. Louis: ‘Bob’ Prevost started his papal journey here
“Never in my life did I think that someone that I knew was going to be the pope. I mean, I sat at a kitchen table and drank coffee with
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Kelsey Landis @kelseylandis.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
The grants ranged from $10,000 to $45,000 and had been promised to 14 area organizations. www.stltoday.com/life-enterta...
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Trump administration cuts send St. Louis arts groups scrambling for funds
The National Endowment for the Arts rescinded grants it had announced for at least 10 local groups.
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