Mayor’s office kept out of committee meeting on COVID relief
CITY HALL – An aldermanic committee held on Tuesday the first of several meetings to discuss how to spend $80…
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County invests more than $10.5 million in CARES funding to ease food insecurity
ST. LOUIS COUNTY – The county reports that it has spent more than $10 million it received through the federal…
County Library helps older adults reach loved ones, with GrandPads
ST. LOUIS COUNTY – The St. Louis County Library is giving out 1,500 GrandPad tablets bought with CARES Act funds to area older adults. The GrandPad…
Missouri in no rush to spend $2.7B of flexible pandemic aid
JEFFERSON CITY (AP) — Missouri will get nearly $2.7 billion of flexible federal aid under a coronavirus relief law, but…
Push to put benefit limits on Missouri unemployment debt goes down in House
A bill to forgive mistakenly paid unemployment benefit from 2020 will include a waiver for debts to the state but won’t include…
Missouri lawmaker faces more charges for alleged COVID-19 treatment scam
LIBERTY, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri state lawmaker already indicted on 20 charges related to a fraud scheme involving medical…
Missouri House panel votes to forgive federal unemployment debts
Thousands of Missourians facing repayment of mistakenly paid unemployment benefits would get some relief under legislation passed with a bipartisan vote Wednesday…
Parson signs bill to OK $324 million for rental aid
Gov. Mike Parson signed into law Thursday legislation allocating $324 million in funding for rental assistance — part of the COVID-19 relief…
State eyes federal funds to cover mistakenly paid unemployment
A legislative committee may have found a way to relieve all the debt of Missourians who were mistakenly paid too much from…
Lawmakers question tough stance on jobless overpayments
Missouri will demand repayment of any unemployment money it paid in error to residents since the COVID-19 pandemic began —…
Tiny house village near downtown gets first residents
DOWNTOWN WEST – The first residents have moved into the tiny “village” being built near downtown for otherwise homeless people,…
Minority-owned companies waited months for loans
NEW YORK (AP) — Thousands of minority-owned small businesses were at the end of the line in the government’s coronavirus…
Local officials hope, worry as virus strains health system
ST. LOUIS – Officials entered 2021 with the hope that vaccines will eventually eliminate the scourge of COVID-19, but also…
House passes $900 billion COVID relief, catchall measure
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House easily passed a $900 billion pandemic relief package Monday night that would finally deliver long-sought…
Congress seals deal for $900 billion in COVID relief
WASHINGTON (AP) — Top Capitol Hill negotiators sealed a deal Sunday on a $900 billion COVID-19 economic relief package, finally…
Election board gets $75,000 more to aid spring voting
CITY HALL – the Board of Estimate and Apportionment, the city’s top fiscal body, has agreed to spend an additional…