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St. Mary's Students Honor September 11 Victims and Heroes

1 month 2 weeks ago
ALTON - St. Mary’s Middle School students, faculty, staff, and administrators gathered Friday morning at the school’s new flag space with local first responders and members of the military for a Patriot Day ceremony marking the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, Principal Mary Rivera said. The ceremony was held to help students, none of whom were alive when the attacks occurred, understand the significance of Sept. 11 while remembering the nearly 3,000 people

Illinois Announces Tentative 2026 Madison County Property Tax Multiplier Of 1.0655

1 month 2 weeks ago
SPRINGFIELD - Madison County has been issued a tentative property assessment equalization factor of 1.0655, according to David Harris, director of the Illinois Department of Revenue (IDOR). The property assessment equalization factor, often called the "multiplier," is the method used to achieve uniform property assessments among counties, as required by law. This equalization is particularly important because some of the state's 6,600 local taxing districts overlap into two or more counties

Robin Trower Talks New Music, Guitar & St. Louis with Lern

1 month 2 weeks ago
Robin Trower has a catalog that would give any musician a perfectly reasonable excuse to spend some time looking back. He’d rather pick up the guitar and keep looking for the next song. Trower joined KSHE 95’s Lern ahead of his return to St. Louis on October 11 at The Factory for a conversation about...

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New Apartment Building to Rise on Bates Near Grand

1 month 2 weeks ago
An elevation drawing of 3621 Bates. Lutheran Development Group (LDG), the development firm that specializes in creating affordable housing options across new and old buildings across South City, is setting sail on a new infill development. This one's located on a present-day parking lot at 3621 Bates Street, just west of Grand. The new building will feature 7 apartments, 6 will be three-bedroom apartments and one will be a three-bedroom townhouse unit for the "host family". Plans also call...
Chris Stritzel

The High Crime Of “LMAO”: How Cops Are Treating Flock Mass Surveillance As A Joke

1 month 2 weeks ago
Here’s a riddle: Why did a Goshen Police Department officer search 6,474 automated license plate reader (ALPR) networks, representing data from 82,413 cameras, on May 7, 2025?  If your answer is “I don’t know,” it turns out you’re 100% correct. The officer left the letters “idk” in the search field where cops are supposed to […]
Rindala Alajaji and Dave Maass