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What are the stakes in the Hobby Lobby birth-control case?
(KTVI)-This week, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear the case of Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby Stores. The Hobby Lobby is a chain of craft supply stores headquartered in Oklahoma City with 18,000 employees in...
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Merging St. Louis city and county: Why now?
(KTVI)-The city of St. Louis withdrew from St. Louis County in 1876. Now, a new move is afoot for the city to re-enter the county as a municipality, the same as Chesterfield or Florissant. That would...
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The state of pensions in the United States
(KTVI)-Once upon a time, employees in this country could get something called a pension. If you worked at one place long enough or worked in the same union long enough, you would get a monthly payment...
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Catching Up With Sen. Dick Durbin
(KTVI)- Who is the man who has to constantly defend the biggest on-line failure since MySpace? Who’s the inspiration for John Goodman’s character on a new comedy series from Amazon called “Alpha...
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Skilled labor force may help St. Louis land Boeing plant
(KTVI) – This was the week Missouri gave the okay all sorts of incentives to lure Boeing’s manufacturing plant for the new 777X airliner to St. Louis. St. Louis has one of the highest concentrations of...
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Start-up contest could net companies $50K
(KTVI) – We’ve talked about this before. St. Louis is starting to build a modest reputation nationwide as a place for high-tech start-ups. But to paraphrase Al Capone, a loaded wallet and a kind word...
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Does McKee’s north St. Louis redevelopment have a future
(KTVI)-Nine months ago, developer Paul McKee appeared on the Jaco Report. At the time, the Missouri Supreme Court had just declared his controversial north side regeneration program legal. For a...
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Revisiting the Missouri school transfer program
(KTVI)-The Missouri General Assembly is back in session and a lot of lawmakers say a top priority will be to change the school transfer program. The program says students from any school district that...
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The state of the jobs in St. Louis
(KTVI)- The economic good news? Unemployment is down in the St. Louis region. The bad news? It’s down because 40,000 people dropped out of the labor market. They’ve either moved away or just given up...
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St. Louisans hope to make mission to Mars
(KTVI)-Go to Mars and never come back. That is the goal of more than 1,000 finalists selected by the Mars One program. Mars One is a privately-funded plan to establish a human colony on Mars starting...
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Battling child abuse and neglect in Missouri
(KTVI)-The Missouri Department Of Social Service’s Children’s Division is in charge of investigating accusations of child abuse and neglect. But, according to the Springfield News-Leader, the agency is...
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Is Right-To-Work right for Missouri?
(KTVI)- Opponents of labor unions think they can get a so-called Right-To-Work measure on the Missouri ballot this year. If they do, Missourians will get to vote on whether to outlaw mandatory union...
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City/County merger: A good thing or bad thing
(KTVI)-In 1876, the city of St. Louis city pulled out of St. Louis County. Now, many people want the city to become part of the county again, just like Wildwood or Ferguson or any other city in the...
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From Pee Wee to the NFL: Brain injuries and football
(KTVI)-The Super Bowl is here and once again attention is being paid to head injuries in the National Football League. The NFL has agreed to pay $765 million to former players who had threatened to...
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School choice: Charter vs. Public schools
(KTVI)- Saturday marks the end of something called National School Choice Week. Supporters of school choice, from Mayor Francis Slay to millionaire St. Louis power broker Rex Sinquefield, claim...
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Will the St. Louis Rams stay in town?
(KTVI)-Should St. Louis be worried about the silence of the Rams? We all know the story by now. The city refused to spend $ 700 million in taxpayer dollars to re-build the Edward Jones Dome, so the...
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Secrecy behind Missouri’s death penalty drug
(KVTI)- What do you call people who cross the border with a satchel full of cash to buy drugs? You would call them the people in charge of Missouri’s inmate executions. Due to shortages of execution...
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St. Louis: Inexpensive city, good for business
(KTVI)-Two hundred fifty years ago this weekend, Auguste Chouteau, just 14 years old, hopped out of a flat-bottomed skiff, notched two trees with an axe, and in an example of what one author called...
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Jaco: Losing the gay culture war
(KTVI) – On the Jaco Report, Charles Jaco shared his thoughts on the so-called “gay culture war”. He states that sometimes when you’re in the middle of a war, it’s hard to realize the war is s over...
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What is happening to the middle class?
(KTVI)-About 2,400 years ago, Aristotle said the perfect political community is where the middle class is in control and outnumbers the other classes. That’s because a society with a big, healthy...
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