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Prairie peace

3 years 1 month ago
She’Kinah Taylor remembers the first time she saw the prairie. But mostly, she remembers not what she saw, but what she heard: a quiet totally unlike the noise of her St. Louis City neighborhood.
Sophie Hurwitz For the St. Louis American

Roxana Shine Like Spencer Kindness Winner Is Graduating Senior Sharlee Mason

3 years 1 month ago
ROXANA - The Bacus family recently presented the Fourth Annual Shine Like Spencer Kindness Award to graduating Senior Sharlee Mason. The $500 award was established in memory of their son, Spencer Bacus who died in 2018 from a rare form of cancer. Spencer was described as a 2012 graduate of Roxana High School and known as "an extremely kind and caring young man who was a friend to all," Debbie Bacus said. When Spencer was three days old, we were told by doctors at Children's Hospital in St. Louis that most children born with his rare skin disorder (Giant Congenital Nevus) don't live past five years old. He certainly kept living - happily, joyfully, robustly – day after day, year after year, and inspired countless amounts of students and residents in his community and at SIUE. Spencer Bacus, 24, was an SIUE junior in the Department of Applied Communication Studies; Fine Arts Fellow, honor thespian, accomplished actor and performer, versatile musician – pianist, woodwinds,

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Greenfield's Blake Meyer Named Co-Outstanding Graduate: Blackburn College Celebrates Class Of 2022

3 years 1 month ago
CARLINVILLE - On Saturday, May 14, 2022, Blackburn College in Carlinville, IL held commencement ceremonies on the campus’ Hudson Quad honoring 86 graduates from the class of 2022. These events marked the 153rd Commencement exercise for the College. The Blackburn Alumni Association presented its Outstanding Graduate Award at commencement. This year, two deserving seniors - political science major Blake Meyer of Greenfield, and elementary education major Brianna Milich of Washington, IL. - shared that distinction. During commencement, academic and leadership awards were presented to the graduating class, and one recognized Emily Fleck, a psychology major from Athens, IL, as class valedictorian. Dr. Mark L. Biermann, president of Blackburn, shared remarks and welcomed families and friends to celebrate a return to regular graduation activities on campus. “Gathering as we are today gives us a singular opportunity to pause, take stock, and think about what we have experienced,

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Tech Companies Oppose ‘Reverse Warrants,’ Say Surveillance Of User Location Data Should Be Limited To Tech Companies

3 years 1 month ago
Google’s market share and capacity to gather billions of data points has made it the most popular target for so-called warrants that seem to elude both particularity requirements and the Supreme Court’s decision in the Carpenter case. To be a reasonable search, law enforcement is supposed to be able to show the information it seeks […]
Tim Cushing

St. Mary's Catholic School Announces Graduates

3 years 1 month ago
ALTON - St. Mary's Catholic School graduates are listed below: Corbin Barnard Michael Beaber Austin Brunaugh Alex Campbell Lucille Cassenti Olivia Certa Mackenzie Cochran Lucas Davis Isabel Downey Sharon Dugas Jackson Ehrman Laci Fischer John Hornsey Carson Jones Sofia Lamere Reese Livingstone Melanie Marshall Noah Menke Braden Nash Alexander Noll Owen Page Olivia Prediger Annie Rea Jack Rea Samuel Rea Stephen Stobbs Josephine Strack Joseph Ventimiglia Caleb Wade Madelyn Waters

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Raw data: The unemployment rate of native vs. foreign-born workers

3 years 1 month ago
The BLS released its annual report on foreign-born workers today, so let's celebrate by taking a look at the unemployment rate of native vs. foreign-born workers: As you can see, foreign-born workers generally have a slightly lower unemployment rate than native-born workers, but during the pandemic they lost their jobs in large numbers and their ...continue reading "Raw data: The unemployment rate of native vs. foreign-born workers"
Kevin Drum

Legislative Mailbag

3 years 1 month ago
With the 2022 Missouri Legislative Session finished, St. Louis Public Radio's Jason Rosenbaum and Sarah Kellogg spend this episode of Politically Speaking answering your questions about the legislature. What does the redistricting process look like now that the legislature has passed a map? How will the contentiousness that happened this year impact future sessions? What song best describes this session? Those questions and more answered in this mailbag episode.