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The Senate begins work Tuesday on Missouri’s roughly $50 billion state budget, with questions still swirling around renewing a tax that funds Medicaid and a GOP infighting that could derail the process.
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Recipients of 2023 Neighborhood Transformation Grants discuss how they’re using that money to transform St. Louis neighborhoods.
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Mayor Tishaura Jones has implemented a hiring freeze for the city's nonemergency workers to prepare for financial challenges. It comes as the Board of Aldermen overrode the mayor's veto of a bill allowing a firefighter board to negotiate pensions.
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A St. Louis aldermanic committee has given its approval to a bill that would use federal money to pay the medical debt of thousands of St. Louisans.
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The allegations center around the more than $50 million St. Clair County received from the federal government as part of the American Rescue Plan Act.
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Missouri is set to receive more than $1.7 billion for broadband expansion.
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“There are people that have applications, there are businesses that have been waiting and counting on the opportunity to be able to get this money to build or revitalize their business,” said the bill’s sponsor.
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More than $20 million in American Rescue Plan funds is being offered to St. Louis nonprofits.
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Bills passed included an experimental guaranteed basic income program, changes to development incentives and spending millions in federal COVID relief money.
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An urban farming organization received $350,000 in American Rescue Plan Act funds to support urban farmers in north St. Louis County and address accessibility to healthy food.