ALTON - Community members gathered to hear from Alton’s aldermanic, City Clerk, and mayoral candidates. On Feb. 4, 2025, the East End Improvement Association hosted a candidates’ forum that allowed all of the Alton candidates to introduce themselves. The three mayoral candidates — David Goins, Ray Strebel and Brant Walker — also answered questions submitted by the audience. “Why is East End doing this forum? For, actually, two purposes,” explained Steve Schwartz, a representative with the East End Improvement Association and the forum’s moderator. “One is to introduce the candidates to the community. We feel that it is important that the community know who’s running. And also, hopefully, to increase the voting here in Alton.” The candidates began by introducing themselves. Brant Walker Brant Walker is the former mayor of Alton. During his opening statement, he shared that he is “an Altonian by choice”
We talk all about Musk's takeover of the federal government, including audio of a meeting we got touching a Musk ally's AI plans. Then, AI slop in libraries.
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On February 1, 2025, at 4:55PM District 4 officers received a call for a shooting at the QuikTrip located at 904 S. Vandeventer. When they arrived, they were directed to a vehicle that was parked at a gas pump and located a 36-year-old woman who was shot.
SpaceX’s Starlink service can be a big improvement for those completely out of range of broadband access. But contrary to what many Republicans and c-tier comedians turned conspiracy podcasters imply, Starlink is not magic. And it comes with a growing list of caveats. Including the increasingly unhinged behavior and far right political alliances of its conspiratorial CEO. […]
MADISON COUNTY, Ill. - One of the three men charged in a high-profile murder-for-hire case in the shooting death of Portia Rowland is set to appear in court on Wednesday. Sammy Shafer Jr. is set to appear before a judge at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday afternoon. The Madison County State's Attorney charged Shafer and two others [...]
Missouri Republicans formally began the push to reinstate a ban on abortion Tuesday night, with a proposed constitutional amendment outlawing the procedure with limited exceptions for victims rape and incest.
A Missouri House committee heard four hours of testimony on legislation filed by GOP state Rep. Melanie Stinnett of Springfield that seeks to overturn an abortion-rights amendment approved by voters in November.
The previous ban, which was in place for two years, only permitted abortions in…
The St. Louis County Council on Tuesday afternoon took residents' issues straight to the leaders of both Transportation & Public Works and the Department of Revenue.
While those departments do very different things for St. Louis County residents, they are dealing with the same problem: staffing.
During early January winter storms, residents couldn't get out of their homes for days, and Transportation & Public Works said they couldn't clear the roads fast enough because of the way the storm hit,…
Of the 24 promised electric buses, delivery of 21 is suddenly in limbo after an executive order from President Donald Trump paused clean energy initiatives
After hours of debate, aldermen had not advanced any of the plans, and some suggested they would delay action until the new session after elections in April.
Almost 30,000 federal employees in the Kansas City area are caught in the chaos that has defined President Donald Trump’s return to the White House. So far, the Trump administration has reinstituted a policy making it easier to fire federal employees. It has ordered remote workers to return to the office. Federal agencies have been […]
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