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St. Louis city, county library systems combining catalogs

3 years 1 month ago
Attention readers in the city of St. Louis and St. Louis County: There's now a free and easy way to get access to more than 5 million items. St. Louis Public Library and St. Louis County Library have combined their catalogs, making every item in both systems available to cardholders in both jurisdictions. The new partnership will allow library patrons to find materials from either system through a single search and have them delivered to the branch of their choice. β€œSLPL is continuously looking…
Sam Clancy, KSDK

Mark Vittert's Reflections: Remembering Gyo Obata, the architectural great who founded HOK

3 years 1 month ago
I had the chance to meet Gyo Obata almost 40 years ago. In the times we shared, there was not a word ever spoken about buildings or airports or extraordinary structures, or his remarkable, unmatched career, or the books that would herald him as one of the greatest architects who had ever lived. I was able to get to know Gyo in a completely different way.
Mark Vittert

$37M in Covid relief funding to revitalize north St. Louis hits a road block

3 years 1 month ago
For six years, William Jones and his family have run MC Appliances on Dr. Martin Luther King Drive in the heart of north St. Louis. Like many businesses, they were hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic. "The pandemic really did affect us all in many ways. We would like to do many things still, including hiring more staff, investing in stock and making necessary repairs," said Jones. Much-needed help for the family's appliance shop and about 100 other businesses on the city's north side could soon…
Robert Townsend, KSDK

After pandemic pause, Venture Cafe returns to Cortex

3 years 1 month ago
For the first time in more than two years, Venture Cafe St. Louis will be back Thursday at the Cortex innovation district with its popular weekly programming. Its return comes after the organization suspended its programming, which had shifted online during the Covid-19 pandemic, amid a leadership change at the organization.
Nathan Rubbelke

Gardner's investigator in Greitens case pleads guilty to evidence tampering

3 years 1 month ago
An investigator for St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner pleaded guilty Wednesday to one misdemeanor count of tampering with physical evidence, related to a criminal probe of former Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens that saw him resign from public office in 2018. Private investigator William Tisaby received a suspended sentence of one year of probation, the St. Louis Circuit Court said. Jury selection in Tisaby's trial had been set to begin Thursday. He had been indicted in 2019 on six counts of perjury…
Jacob Kirn