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How this St. Louis medtech startup found a way to diversify its clinical trials

3 years 3 months ago
As Geneoscopy kicked off a clinical trial for its at-home screening test for colorectal cancer, it employed a novel approach that bucks the traditional model for securing participants in the study. Its strategy is one it says offers a solution to a major, long-standing problem: an underrepresentation of minorities in the clinical trials. The St. Louis startup says it’s already seeing promising results.
Nathan Rubbelke

Buttigieg points to Pittsburgh bridge collapse as blunt reminder of infrastructure spending needs

3 years 3 months ago

KANSAS CITY, Kan. — U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said Friday the collapse of a bridge in Pittsburgh illustrated the necessity of federal investment in the nation’s infrastructure, including more than 1,000 bridges in poor condition in Kansas and twice that total in Missouri. Buttigieg braved winter chill to stand at the rusting Rock Island […]

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Tim Carpenter

Fall Archery Turkey Harvest Totals 683, Madison County Led With 19

3 years 3 months ago
SPRINGFIELD – Hunters in Illinois harvested a statewide total of 683 wild turkeys during the 2021-2022 fall archery turkey season. The total compares with a statewide turkey harvest of 783 in 2020-2021 and a five-year average of 688 birds harvested. This season 24,768 permits were sold (excluding landowner permits) compared to 24,187 for the 2020-2021 season. The season dates were Oct. 1, 2021, through Jan. 16, 2022, and all 102 counties were open for hunting. Harvest consisted of 51% toms and 49% hens. The top five counties for fall archery wild turkey harvest this season were Madison (19), Jefferson (18), Schuyler (18), Franklin (16), and St. Clair (15). The table below includes the preliminary 2021-2022 county-by-county fall archery turkey harvest results with comparable totals for 2020-2021: County ’20-‘21 ’21-‘22 County 20-'21 21-'22 Adams 13 8 Livingston 1 2

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Hearing Scheduled On Illinois Corn Marketing Board Referendum

3 years 3 months ago
SPRINGFIELD –Director of the Illinois Department of Agriculture (IDOA), Jerry Costello II, invites Illinois corn producers to provide comments on a proposed corn checkoff referendum at a public hearing on February 10, 2022. The Illinois Corn Marketing Board has proposed to enhance marketing and promotion of Illinois corn by increasing the checkoff amount by 1/4 cent per bushel. This would increase the current 5/8 cent voluntary checkoff rate to 7/8 cent per bushel. Growers would continue to have a right to refund. The public hearing will begin at 10 a.m. in the IDOA auditorium, located on the State Fairgrounds in the John R. Block Building, 801 E. Sangamon Avenue, Springfield, IL. Pursuant to public health guidelines, masks are required to be worn inside the building. Following the public hearing, the Illinois Corn Marketing Board will meet and review all comments presented. If, after reviewing the comments, the Illinois Corn Marketing Board approves the proposed amendment, IDO

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East St. Louis, Alton police receive body-camera grants

3 years 3 months ago
The East St. Louis and Alton Police Departments were recently awarded respective $225,000 grants from the U.S. Department of Justice to establish a Body-Worn Camera (BWC) Policy and Implementation Program within their jurisdictions of St. Clair and Madison Counties.
The St. Louis American Staff

Morse Home Improvement Celebrates 60 Years In Business

3 years 3 months ago
ALTON - Morse Home Improvement, a home improvement and remodeling business based in Alton, is celebrating a milestone anniversary of 60 years in business in 2022. The company has provided kitchen and bathroom remodeling, patio enclosures, awnings, entry doors, and other related services to the Madison, Jersey, and St. Clair County areas for decades. President Jay Lindley said founder Allen Morse started the company in 1962 before selling it to Lindley’s father in 1987. Under his father’s management, Lindley started working in the company warehouse before rising through the ranks and eventually becoming owner himself. “I started at Morse as the warehouse guy, and then I went to helping with contractors, and then I went into sales, so it was just kind of a natural progression - and I’m glad it went that way because now, I don’t ask anybody to do anything I haven’t done or wouldn’t do myself,” Lindley said. Lindley said the company’s

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