From The Wall Street Journal: In America’s most surprising cutting-edge classes, students pursue hands-on work with wood, metals and machinery, getting a jump on lucrative old-school careers. School districts around the U.S. are spending tens of millions of dollars to expand and revamp high-school shop classes for the 21st century. They are betting on the future of manual skills […]
About Russian Circles Across the span of their previous seven studio albums, Chicago-based instrumental trio Russian Circles traversed a diverse topography of sounds, moods, and approaches with their limited armory […]
From St. Louis Magazine: Eli Hoisington has much to be proud of over his 20-year tenure at HOK. Most recently, the firm was selected to lead the redesign of St. Louis Lambert International Airport, a project that will see HOK team with a group of local partners. Hoisington credits HOK’s success to its “increased investment […]
The slate for this year’s fest featured nonfiction that grapples with environmental issues, the power of a camera, and interrogating true crime as a genre.
From Accidental Historian: WELCOMING AMERICA. Sounds like who we are, right? Or, maybe I should use the past tense in this statement? More on this….. But first, a PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT……for the St. Louis Community. DAY ONE, the award-winning docume ntary, will return to St. Louis, nearly 7 years to the month, when it had its […]
Unions would have significant power over the board governing the SLMPD—and state law would require the city to spend 25 percent of its revenue on the department.
A Berkeley councilwoman says she was justified in driving into her neighbor’s yard. The politician says she won’t pay for damages, claiming she’s the victim.
A St. Louis man appeared in criminal court Monday and pleaded guilty to several charges in connection with a 2023 rape in the city’s Old North St. Louis neighborhood.
A bill targeting foreign-manufactured drones drew opposition Monday from Missouri law enforcement officials and public utility representatives. State Sen. Rick Brattin, a Republican from Harrisonville, said the crux of his legislation is to ban future purchases of Chinese drones by law enforcement. Concerns he cited in the Senate Committee on Transportation, Infrastructure and Public Safety […]
WAUKEGAN, Ill. (AP) — An Illinois man pleaded guilty Monday to killing seven people and injuring dozens more when he opened fire on a 2022 Independence Day parade in a Chicago suburb, a stunning development moments before opening statements in his trial on murder and attempted murder charges. Appearing in a Lake County circuit courtroom, [...]
A Missouri House budget subcommittee slashed more than $300 million from agency budgets Monday, which the chairman said is intended to align spending authority with actual spending. Another budget subcommittee, also meeting Monday, cut $59.5 million more in general revenue from several agencies, earmarking the money instead for local projects that include several that were […]
Democratic House Minority Leader Ashley Aune, a Kansas City and Platte County resident, has filed a bill that she says would close a loophole the county commission used to avoid implementing the quarter cent sales tax.
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