In 2001, I was groomed, abused and assaulted by my high school teacher. Because I was 17 at the time, this constituted a crime under Illinois law, but even if I had been 18, the harm and the abusive dynamics would have been the same. That is why I was so concerned when I recently became aware of the news story about a teacher brazenly posting about his “affair” with an 18 year old student.
St. Louis Mayor Tishaura O. Jones was thankful President Joe Biden signed the Safer Communities Act on Monday and was on hand at The White House for the important event.
You know the drill. Company X over-collects user data in the hopes of monetizing it, then does a poor job securing it or giving their customers control over it. If you’re lucky, Company X comes clean about its failures, whether it’s a hack or just leaving customer data openly accessible on an unsecured Amazon cloud […]
This refurbished EliteBook from HP pairs a fast processor with 8GB of RAM to help make multitasking easier, and its speedy 256 solid-state drive can house your essential media, games, and other data. It also features three USB ports so you can make the most of your system by expanding it with peripheral devices. This […]
A five-story apartment complex soon to be built in Kirkwood is the first large-scale apartment project approved in the city's downtown historic district in two decades.
Along with its inflation report, the BLS also released this today: Real wages continue to go down, down, down. Workers are making less than they did before the pandemic—or will by next month, anyway. This is yet another reason to be skeptical that inflation is baked into the economy unless we throw ourselves into a ...continue reading "Hourly earnings were down yet again in June"
A limited-edition 17-CD Grateful Dead box set featuring six full previously unreleased concert performances that the band played at New York's famed Madison Square Garden during the early 1980s will…
Almost exactly a year ago, Senator Amy Klobuchar (with Senator Ben Ray Lujan) introduced a bill to create a giant hole in Section 230 for “medical misinformation.” The bill would make social media sites like Facebook and Instagram potentially liable for any “health misinformation” found on their platforms. Of course, as we explained at the […]