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Greater Godfrey Democrats Group to Host Two Candidates at Monthly Meeting

11 months 2 weeks ago
GODFREY - The Greater Godfrey Democrats will host a special meeting with the opportunity to meet two local candidates. At 6 p.m. on Monday, July 14, 2025, community members are invited to IBEW Local 649 in Godfrey for the regular Greater Godfrey Democrats meeting, followed by presentations by Randy Raley and Lexy Dona. Raley, a former KSHE DJ, hopes to run against Congresswoman Mary Miller in Illinois’s 15th District. Lexy Dona intends to run for the Madison County Board. “What has been interesting is I’m 56 years old, and I never really understood how to get involved in politics. How do you get involved in the process? I’ve always kind of been interested but never really knew how to participate,” said Craig Rathgeb, the organization's chair. “There are avenues for folks to participate, and my goal as chairman is to teach and pass along the information that I’ve learned and how to participate in the political process and share your views,

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A look back on the McDonald's that floated on the river

11 months 2 weeks ago
The City of St. Louis has been known for a variety of things over the years: The Arch, toasted ravioli, and the question as old as time of "What high school did you go to?" But St. Louis also used to be home of the first floating McDonald's restaurant decades ago.
Megan Mueller

Attorney General Raoul Opposes Trump Administration Effort To Roll Back Fair Housing Protections

11 months 2 weeks ago
CHICAGO – Attorney General Kwame Raoul today, as part of a coalition of 21 attorneys general, sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) opposing a proposed rule that would end critical fair housing regulations that prohibit discrimination in the marketing of affordable housing. The Affirmative Fair Housing Marketing (AFHM) regulations require owners of federally assisted housing to target advertising and outreach regarding their properties to communities that otherwise might not have learned about the opportunity to live there. The proposed rule would repeal these regulations, which are designed to ensure that federally assisted housing providers do not market available housing to only certain groups as had been done in the past to maintain racially segregated neighborhoods. “The legacy of discrimination and segregation in housing continues to negatively affect the overall health of communities and limits the potential of neighborhoods

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