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Reversing the Real-Estate Doom Loop Is Possible. Just Look at Detroit.

1 year 3 months ago
From The Wall Street Journal:  Barely a decade after Detroit declared bankruptcy, the city is emerging as America’s most unlikely real-estate boomtown. A development frenzy has gripped Detroit’s central business district. Big companies, including Ford and developer Related Cos., are spending billions of dollars on office buildings and other properties. Dan Gilbert, a Detroit native […]
Kacey Crawley

Feds set higher nursing home staffing mandates. Many Missouri facilities don’t meet them.

1 year 3 months ago
The Biden administration finalized nursing home staffing rules Monday that will require thousands of them to hire more nurses and aides — while giving them years to do so. The new rules from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services are the most substantial changes to federal oversight of the nation’s roughly 15,000 nursing homes in more than three decades. But they are less stringent than what patient advocates said was needed to provide high-quality care. Spurred by disproportionate deaths…
Jordan Rau

MoDOT Showcases Plans for Massive Improve I-70 Road Project

1 year 3 months ago
From MRN:  Rep. Tricia Byrnes (R-District 63) hosted an open house meeting on Apr. 18 for St. Charles County elected officials and the public to learn about the new Improve I-70 construction project that will update 200 miles of road throughout Missouri. Byrnes brought in MoDOT workers to lay out preliminary plans and answer questions, […]
Kacey Crawley

Webster Groves Herb Society's big spring sale

1 year 3 months ago
Webster Groves Herb Society's big sale is coming up this weekend. They will have a variety of culinary, ornamental, and medicinal herbs, full size and cherry tomato plants, hot and sweet peppers, and Missouri native plants, including coneflowers, bee balm, yarrow, and milkweeds. There will also be some member-grown herbs and plants and a wonderful [...]
Joe Millitzer