Tag: St. Louis

AP’s last correspondent in St. Louis takes buyout, cutting back on wire service’s continuous presence since before Civil War

 An important cog in the news-making machinery of St. Louis has quietly slipped out of service with the departure of veteran Associated Press Correspondent Jim Salter. For 31 years, Salter supplied the global wire service with a steady diet of hard news, sports and features from eastern Missouri. In 2011 he was part of a…

Missouri’s broad redaction law declared unconstitutional

Updated Dec. 22: A state judge ruled Dec. 20 that Missouri’s strict law redacting the names of witnesses and victims from court records violated both the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and the Open Courts provision of the Missouri Constitution. Judge Aaron J. Martin, ruling out of Cole County Circuit Court, said a “plain…

The Palestine exception: Experts and activists say universities suppress Pro-Palestine speech

On April 27, a group of Muslim students at Washington University in St. Louis laid out mats and began their evening prayers.  Behind them, other students, faculty and community members began to prepare food, talk quietly and finish setting up the student encampment for Palestine.  Then police from several local departments armed with zip ties…

Exclusive: Settlement reached in Gateway Pundit defamation case

A settlement has been agreed to between the Gateway Pundit and the two Georgia election workers who charged the St. Louis-based far-right website with defamation   in a civil suit in St. Louis Circuit Court. Notice of the settlement was filed on the Missouri Courts.gov website Monday afternoon. The parties to the dispute “provide notice…

News Analysis: The arc of the moral universe veers away from justice 10 years after Ferguson

Ten years after the Ferguson uprising, five years after “The 1619 Project” and four years after the murder of George Floyd, the racial reckoning that seemed at hand has largely dissipated amidst  a political and legal backlash — laws outlawing “DEI,” attacks on a “DEI vice president” and bans on books in public libraries and…