a Better Bubble™

Aggregator

‘Exploiting a loophole’: PACs tied to Missouri lobbyist draw new criticism 

4 years 1 month ago

One day earlier this month, a company called Phoenix Home Care cut $120,000 worth of checks to six different Missouri political action committees.  A few months earlier, a pair of companies suing the state to block a crackdown on unregulated slot machines combined to drop $350,000 into the same six PACs.  The companies and all […]

The post ‘Exploiting a loophole’: PACs tied to Missouri lobbyist draw new criticism  appeared first on Missouri Independent.

Jason Hancock

Heal The Grid – A Forest Park Southeast Success Story

4 years 1 month ago

“Heal the Grid” is a term I’ve read over the years as I try to learn more about what makes a city a city. A grid, in reference to urban planning, means a rectilinear layout of streets. An organized north, south, east, west series of rectangles or squares that make navigation extremely easy. Think Manhattan. […]

The post Heal The Grid – A Forest Park Southeast Success Story appeared first on NextSTL.

Mark Groth

Alden Global Capital moves to buy Lee Enterprises, owner of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch

4 years 1 month ago

Alden Global Capital, a New York-based hedge fund that this year became the second largest newspaper publisher in the United States, has made an offer to purchase Lee Enterprises, the media company that owns 75 daily newspapers, including the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Dennis Swibold, a professor of journalism at the University of Montana and author […]

The post Alden Global Capital moves to buy Lee Enterprises, owner of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch appeared first on Missouri Independent.

Arren Kimbel-Sannit