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Alton Mayoral Candidates Answer Questions at Candidate Forum

9 months 2 weeks ago
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”

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Ontario Cancels, Then Restores $100 Million Starlink Contract Over Trump’s Ignorant Tariff Threats

9 months 2 weeks ago
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. […]
Karl Bode

Alleged murder-for-hire orchestrator to appear in court on Wednesday

9 months 2 weeks ago
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 [...]
Nick Gladney

Lawmakers debate new constitutional amendment banning abortion in Missouri

9 months 2 weeks ago
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…
Anna Spoerre

St. Louis County leaders blame slow snow response, tax delays on staffing shortages

9 months 2 weeks ago
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,…
Laura Barczewski