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Jay Ashcroft seeks to pull abortion amendment off Missouri ballot weeks after approving it

1 year 2 months ago
Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft decertified a ballot measure that would legalize abortion, a move aimed at blocking it from appearing on the November ballot, according to a brief filed Monday with the state Supreme Court. Last month, Ashcroft announced the reproductive-rights proposal would appear on the ballot as Amendment 3. But a Cole County judge on Friday ruled the amendment violated state law and shouldn’t have been certified.  That ruling is now before the Missouri Supreme…
Anna Spoerre

St. Louis native details imprisonment in Syria in new book

1 year 2 months ago
ST. LOUIS - Sam Goodwin’s roots are in St. Louis. “I’ll just answer the question before everyone asks; I went to DeSmet High School,” he said. He branched out after college, moving to Singapore to work for a tech startup. While he was there, he was bitten by the travel bug. “I had flexibility in [...]
Mike Colombo

Henry Street TIF Project Advances In Alton

1 year 2 months ago
ALTON - Improvements to a building on Henry Street are one step closer to getting a funding boost from the City of Alton following unanimous approval from the Committee of the Whole on Monday . According to a redevelopment agreement between the City of Alton and Honke Properties LLC, the city has agreed to reimburse the developer for up to $18,636 of the project cost upon its completion. These funds would be generated through Tax Increment Financing (TIF) and would cover about 25% of the project’s estimated total of $74,545. As previously reported on Riverbender.com , the improvements consist of “interior accessibility improvements, including elevator modernization and hydraulic jack replacement.” These upgrades will be made to a brick building on the corner of Henry and East 3rd Street, which is currently home to multiple businesses, including Honke Properties. A resolution authorizing city officials to execute the redevelopment agreement was unanimously

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