From Illinois Business Journal: Kian Capital-backed Team Air Distributing (“Team Air”), a leading wholesale distributor providing OEM-branded HVAC equipment, parts and supplies to residential and commercial contractors and with locations in Southern Illinois, has completed the acquisition of Best Choice Supply (“BCS”), a family-owned HVAC wholesale distributor. BCS was founded in 1988 and has a […]
From Labor Tribune: A growing number of women are taking leadership roles in the union building trades. Former Missouri State Sen. Gina Walsh, deputy director of the International Association of Heat & Frost Insulators Union Labor Management and Cooperative Trust (LMCT), has been an active member of Insulators Local 1 since completing its apprenticeship program […]
From St. Louis Magazine: It’s no secret that office life changed during the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet, three years removed from the worst of the public health crisis, businesses and entrepreneurs still have an appetite for shared workspaces. That’s why Office Evolution is expanding its services in the St. Louis region. Office Evolution, a flexible workplace […]
ST. LOUIS - The City of St. Louis is asking residents to provide input and feedback on the future of City streets, sidewalks, and surrounding infrastructure through a new survey and upcoming open houses. Since the spring of 2024, the City has been developing its first citywide Transportation & Mobility Plan in decades. Once completed in 2025, the plan will establish clear, citywide priorities and policy recommendations for a safer and better-maintained transportation network, utilizing national best practices in ways that fit St. Louis. “We’re lucky to have forward-thinking planners and engineers in the City of St. Louis who are committed to making our streets people-friendly,” said Mayor Tishaura O. Jones. “While we create the plan that will shape how people get around in St. Louis for decades, we need input from residents from every neighborhood and people who travel on our City streets, whether by car, bus, bike, foot, or with any type of assistance. We
From West Newsmagazine: St. Louis County officials held a ribbon cutting on Aug. 29 to celebrate the completion of a $5.2 million project improving a two-mile stretch of Baxter Road through Ballwin and Manchester. County Council member Mark Harder (R-District 7) said the project took close to three years to complete. Crews removed and replaced […]
From Illinois Business Journal: IDOT’s Economic Development Program provides state assistance for road improvements to accommodate access to new or expanding industrial, manufacturing or distribution companies. Funding will include preliminary engineering, construction, construction engineering and contingencies. The primary focus of the program is the creation and retention of permanent full-time jobs. The City of Peru, […]
We got new poverty figures today from the Census Bureau, and the news was mixed: Using the old, official measure, the poverty rate was down 0.4 percentage points, dropping from 11.5% to 11.1%. However, using the shiny new SPM, the poverty rate was up 0.5 percentage points, rising from 12.4% to 12.9%. The SPM is ...continue reading "Chart of the day: Poverty in America"
From The New York Times: Seven years after flames engulfed Grenfell Tower, a public housing block in West London, killing 72 people, a public inquiry on Wednesday blamed unscrupulous manufacturers, a cost-cutting local government and reckless deregulation for the disaster, Britain’s worst residential fire since World War II. The 1,671-page final report laid out a […]
A long-lost Tom Petty documentary from the '80s will be hitting theaters in time for what would have been the rocker’s 74th birthday. Tom Petty: Heartbreakers Beach Party followed Petty and…
The shooting Aug. 31 was the third time in less than two years that Michael Tolden had pulled his gun on suspected thieves but the first time he killed someone.
From St. Louis. Business Journal: ArchKey Solutions, the Fenton-based electrical and technology contracting company, is being acquired by an investment firm launched by billionaire sports team owner Josh Harris. New York-based private equity firm One Rock Capital Partners LLC, which invested in ArchKey alongside the company’s management team in 2021, has agreed to sell the […]
From Construction Dive: The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has continued its focus on discrimination and harassment in the construction industry, settling three lawsuits against building firms in recent weeks for a combined total of more than $2.9 million. The agency settled a racial harassment and retaliation suit against Sorrento, Florida-based plumbing and HVAC contractor J.A. […]
A man faces felony charges for public indecency he allegedly committed at a convenience store in Fairview Heights shortly after he had applied for a job at the store, police say.
Mötley Crüe is returning to some of the Los Angeles venues that launched their career.The rockers just announced a series of intimate shows on the Sunset Strip in Hollywood, starting with the Troubadour…
On this Day, Sept. 10, 1950 ...Joseph Anthony Pereira, better known as Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry, was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts. Perry, along with Steven Tyler, Tom Hamilton, Joey Kramer and guitarist Ray Tabano, formed Aerosmith…
Japanese people have used silk to create items of clothing and decorative works of art for hundreds of years, ever since the cultivation of silkworms was introduced to Japan from […]
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