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Keep The Blood Supply Stable: Give Blood Or Platelets With Red Cross

4 months 2 weeks ago
ST. LOUIS — This March, the American Red Cross urges donors to help donors to help the national blood supply recover following a severe shortage and empower their health by making an appointment to give blood or platelets. Donors of all blood types remain critical to keeping momentum up and the blood supply steady headed into spring. Some parts of the nation are still clearing snow, but the threat of severe spring weather?is already growing. Now is the time to book a blood or platelet

Briefing on Trump’s Iran war angers US Senate Dems as Pentagon reports 140 troops injured

4 months 2 weeks ago
WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats tasked with overseeing defense left a classified briefing Tuesday incensed about President Donald Trump’s war with Iran, as the United States and Israel continue their joint bombardment and families prepare to bury seven American service members killed in the conflict. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., who sits on the Senate Armed Services […]
Ashley Murray, Jennifer Shutt

Fairview Heights Man Sentenced To 15 Years In Prison For Disseminating Child Sexual Abuse Material

4 months 2 weeks ago
FAIRVIEW HEIGHTS — Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul announced that James Scherer, a 32-year-old Fairview Heights man, was sentenced today to 15 years in prison after pleading guilty to two counts of dissemination of child sexual abuse material, part of Raoul’s ongoing work with federal and local law enforcement to apprehend offenders who download and trade such material online. Scherer was sentenced by St. Clair County Circuit Court Judge Jeffery Watson. The two convictions are

SIUE Construction Leadership Institute Announces 2026 Graduates

4 months 2 weeks ago

The Construction Leadership Institute (CLI) at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville celebrated 39 graduates of its program Friday, March 6 as a part of the CLI Graduation celebration. Developed by the SIUE Schools of Business and Engineering, the CLI provides the knowledge, skills and strategies that individuals and companies need in today’s challenging construction industry. Program […]

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Dede Hance

East-West Gateway to Seek Bids for Plan, Aiming to Find ‘Common Vision’ for STL Region

4 months 2 weeks ago

From St. Louis Public Radio: As East-West Gateway Council of Governments Executive Director Jim Wild remembers it, members of the organization’s board agreed at a meeting last June that the region needed to align its efforts across almost every sector. The bi-state forum’s board consists of regional leaders like St. Louis Mayor Cara Spencer and […]

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Dede Hance

Cities at a Crossroad: Reviving Growth Through Accountability

4 months 2 weeks ago

Editor’s Note: The following article from Baker Tilly, a national advisory, tax and accounting firm, is written by Neal Richardson, former president and executive director of the St. Louis Development Corporation (SLDC) and a former member of the Construction Forum Board of Directors. Richardson now serves as a director in Baker Tilly’s Development and Community […]

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Tom Finan

Human Problems: It’s Not Always The Technology’s Fault

4 months 2 weeks ago
We have met the enemy and he is us. When a teenage boy in Orlando started texting Character.AI’s chatbot, it started as an innocent use of a new tool. Sewell Setzer III customized the chatbot to have the Game of Thrones-inspired persona of Daenerys Targaryen, the series’ prominent dragon-riding queen. In the months that followed, […]
Kevin Frazier, Brian Frye, Michael Goodyear, and Jess Miers