By Paul Wagman The defamation case brought by two Georgia election workers against the far-right website “The Gateway Pundit” and its owner, St. Louisan Jim Hoft, has finally been set for trial in St. Louis Circuit Court. The trial is scheduled to begin on March 10, 2025, the court recently ordered. That means that more
By Olivia Cohen Allan Lengel, a veteran journalist who co-founded Deadline Detroit, was at the Detroit News in 1995 when six labor unions representing employees of his paper and the Detroit Free Press went on strike for 18 months. The striking workers traveled the country to get the word out about the conflict, sharing updates
By William H. Freivogel and Ted Gest A new Missouri law passed last year deletes the names of victims and witnesses in court documents making Missouri courts the least transparent in the nation, experts say. Among the witness names deleted are police officers. Eugene Volokh, a nationally known libertarian legal commentator, called the law “a
There’s a scene in “Oppenheimer,” a recent movie about the making of the atomic bomb, when a woman hanging up laundry outside is warned to take in the sheets. The laundry outside might get contaminated with the impending explosion of the first atomic bomb. Karen Nichol of North St. Louis County notes that the mothers
Devoe Sherman, an entrepreneur who grew up in a low-income neighborhood in Cincinnati, wanted to create safe space for Black men like himself. A place for men to heal. Three years ago he founded “The Black Males Mancave” in Cincinnati, a Black-owned podcast with 100 listens per episode, a modest number but one that resonates