Let’s take a look at developments in Downtown and Downtown West starting at the river and heading west. The Traders Lofts ate 801-805 N 2nd Street will contain 20 apartments, and 5,395 sf of retail/office space. Still no building permit application. The Hoffman Lofts (left) at 700-702 N 2nd Street will contain 24 apartments, 8,136 […]
ST. LOUIS - A major accident happened Monday morning on River Des Peres Boulevard just north of Gravois Avenue. A van and a pickup truck crashed head-on at about 6:45 a.m. Both vehicles have front-end damage. It is unknown at this time how many people were injured in this crash. River Des Peres Boulevard is [...]
The former leader of St. Louis' carpenters union directed $4 million in unauthorized payments for the purchase and construction of billboards, and entered agreements creating an undesirable tax burden, a new lawsuit alleges. And it claims the ex-leader, Al Bond, used union funds for personal expenses and got an unauthorized payroll check.
“Get it as you need it,” said AAA Missouri spokesman Nick Chabarria. “Don’t necessarily wait for prices to come down or for a cheaper price later in the week."
Most of the enormous surplus accumulating in Missouri’s general revenue fund will be off-limits to members of the House Budget Committee when it prepares a fiscal year 2023 spending plan for floor debate. Gov. Mike Parson’s $47.3 billion budget proposal projects a $1.6 billion general revenue surplus at the end of June 2023. But the […]
WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats and immigration advocates are pushing the White House to end a controversial Trump-era immigration policy enacted during the pandemic that allowed U.S. officials to expel migrants and asylum seekers at the border. “I continue to be disappointed, deeply disappointed, in the administration’s response,” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, a New York Democrat, […]
When cold water flats and tenements were cleared just north of downtown for St. Louis’ first high-rise public housing project, Cochran Gardens, several blocks of 8th Street were erased from the grid. Six decades later 8th Street was rebuilt* when the mixed-income Cambridge Heights apartments & townhouses replaced Cochran Gardens’ towers. ...
We have lots of problems in regards to energy. Community solar should be part of the answer. One issue is energy infrastructure. Having a massive grid makes customers susceptible to outages from extreme weather and cyberattacks. A centralized grid where power is produced hundreds of miles away requires big, expensive transmission lines. Lawmakers in Missouri […]
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