WOOD RIVER – Changes to redevelopment agreements for three Wood River properties face scrutiny from City Councilman Bill Dettmers, who claims city officials have failed to enforce certain guidelines. At Monday’s City Council meeting, Dettmers vocally opposed a series of amendments to TIF agreements for three properties, claiming the amendments would eliminate protections defending the city against waste, fraud, and abuse. City Manager Steve Palen said the city was simply amending each of its TIF agreements to be consistent with each other. Councilman Jeremy Plank has previously voiced support for simplifying the city’s TIF agreements to encourage developers to invest in Wood River. Of concern for Dettmers were three agreements for redevelopment using Tax Increment Financing (TIF). The properties in question include 1 E. Ferguson Ave., 10 W. Ferguson Ave., and 62 E. Ferguson Ave. For 1 E. Ferguson Ave., Dettmers claimed an amendment was made to the TIF agreement
While the number of trademark dispute stories in the alcohol industry has slowed down compared to where it was five years ago, they certainly haven’t gone away entirely. While many past stories were a matter of brewery on brewery trademark violence, owing largely to the creative manner in which craft breweries name and trade dress […]
When Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey took office in January 2023, he inherited a pile of more than 200 unfilled open records requests left over from his predecessor.
Some of the requests had been languishing for more than a year before Bailey took over.
It wasn’t a good look for the state official specifically empowered to enforce the Missouri Sunshine Law. To tackle the backlog, Bailey assigned new staff to the problem and implemented a policy to work through requests on a first-come,…
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One mother and son had a terrifying close call when a massive tree came crashing through their house—just seconds after they took shelter on Friday night.
by Ali Wolf, Chief Economist, Zonda Where are people moving to? The South, still… We know this, thanks to new data from the U.S. Census Bureau tracking migration patterns nationwide. I love this data because where people move to gives us a sense of what they value (weather, taxes, affordability, job market, etc). It also […]
St. Louis Police Chief Robert Tracy said quick actions of the officer struck on I-70 and those of his fellow officers kept a bad situation from being worse.
Late last month, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced a request for public comment on so-called “tech censorship.” America has a vibrant and successful market-driven system for content moderation, enabled by Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which allows platforms to set their own rules, while users decide where to engage. That’s why conversation on […]
Spears was sentenced to 1001 years due to a clerical error and kept in prison by a Missouri law that has since been repealed before his sentence was commuted.
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