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A teenager is behind bars and faces 17 criminal charges in connection with a deadly crash during Mother's Day weekend in St. Louis.

What does a Mom and environmental lawyer do after leading a statewide enviro-coalition into its second half-century and serving as a City of St. Louis Alderperson? This one, Heather Navarro, takes on directing climate action for the Midwest U.S. 

       

The Midwest Climate Collaborative, based at Washington University in St. Louis, envisions a carbon neutral, climate resilient, interconnected Midwest Region. This is seeing big: if the Midwest US (a dozen states) were a country, we'd be the sixth largest Carbon emitter in the world. Heather Navarro is on it!

Launched with an online summit in January, 2022, this partnership to date includes universities, cities, NGOs, companies and cultural institutions. Students are working in leadership roles: connecting formal research projects, educating educators, and asset mapping are activities so far, seeking options to work with the agriculture and industry sectors that powering Midwestern economics.

Solutions, strategies and shared actions are the focus of this Earthworms conversation!

THANKS to Andy Heaslet, Sierra Club national staff and Earthworms audio engineer - and to Jon Valley, KDHX production pro.

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OneSTL: Implementing our Regional Sustainability Plan (Feb 2021)

A World Without Us? Thoughts from Author Alan Weissman (Oct 2020)

Diversifying Power: Jennie C. Stephens Advocates Energy Democracy (Sept 2020)

Nicholas Haglof pleaded guilty to one count of accessing with the intent to view child pornography. He was working as a police officer at the time of the crime.

Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt is preparing for a new round of lawsuits challenging school mask rules if districts reinstate orders in the face of an uptick in COVID-19 cases. During a …

Last Monday, May 16, R.E.M. bassist Mike Mills was presented with an honorary doctor of humanities degree at Mercer University in his childhood hometown of Macon, Georgia, during the school's commencement ceremony.…

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Case highlights broken immigration system in U.S.

WASHINGTON — U.S. Food and Drug Commissioner Robert Califf told Congress Thursday that the infant formula shortage will likely begin to improve in the coming days, though he declined to explain to unhappy lawmakers why his agency didn’t act sooner on a whistleblower report that detailed safety issues at an Abbott Laboratories facility in Michigan. […]

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Obtaining, maintaining and enforcing patents in Europe is complex and expensive. Currently, once a European patent is granted, it must be registered (validated) in each (European) country in which the invention is to be protected. The requirements for registering the patent vary by country, making registration of the patent complex. Additionally, any changes of ownership must be recorded in each country in which the patent is registered. Further, to prevent the patent from lapsing, annuities (annual…

All of this was easily predictable for, well, basically anyone. The already Orwellian-named Department of Homeland Security last month announced the even more Orwellian-named Disinformation Governance Board, with no details, no explanation, and no nothing, other than naming a somewhat controversial researcher to lead it. We called out just how ridiculous the whole thing was […]

In the 10 states hit by tornadoes the night of May 15 and the morning of May 16, 1968, at least 72 people were killed and 1,203 were hurt.

Local developer Midas Enterprises bought the property in March and is reviving The Boulevard's second phase, located just south.

Favazz interviews James Young of Styx ahead of their show on June 3rd with Loverboy and REO Speedwagon.

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St. Louis' development agency on Thursday approved the hiring of a marketing agency to help develop its brand. The nonprofit St. Louis Development Corp.'s board voted to hire Candid LLC, led by President Becky Freetly, to help redesign its logo and website. The contract is not to exceed $140,000. A second phase, for an undetermined fee, could see the firm develop a strategic marketing and communications plan for SLDC, "including but not limited to economic justice," according to SLDC documents. SLDC…

Come join us on a late-afternoon paddle on one of our great rivers and enjoy twilight with a campfire gourmet dinner in an unparalleled remote

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A new classified facility under construction in a historic building in downtown St. Louis will bring 500 jobs when it opens in September, with most of those jobs new positions, a representative of the project said.

Vice President Kamala Harris spoke with abortion providers from states with some of the nation’s strictest restrictions on the procedure Thursday.

The Loop Trolley — that seemingly unkillable basher of parked cars and crasher of innocent bicyclists that has haunted Delmar Boulevard for what seems like centuries now — will resume operation this summer, because man is a fallible creature apparently doomed to repeat the same mistakes over and over again in the face of all logic and reason. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that the cursed trolley will resume service on August 4. In a fun twist on an old theme, it will now be headed up by Bi-State Development, which also runs the MetroBus and MetroLink.

We're on vacation again! This is our first big vacation in five years thanks to this and that and, of course, COVID-19. But everything has gone swimmingly so far on this one. The flight was on time; our driver met us punctually at the airport; the weather is good (a little warm for me, but ...continue reading "Lunchtime Photo"

Michael Lippert said he loves history. He’s also living it. Lippert is from the fourth generation of a family to run Liese Lumber Co. in Belleville. On a recent day at the office, he was looking at a photograph taken in 1908 of the lumberyard at 319 East Main St. He noted that horse and buggies were used then to make deliveries. “You could drive horses through exactly where I am sitting right now,” Lippert said. Next month, Liese Lumber is celebrating its 150th year in business. The Lippert…