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Today on TAP: In an impressive display of fear and greed, the billionaire owner of the Los Angeles Times declares war on journalism.

Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" has been certified Diamond by the RIAA.The generation-defining hit officially passed the milestone, which recognizes 10 million certified units, on Dec. 6."Smells Like Teen Spirit"…

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The Los Angeles Rams are using a familiar tactic in their quest to acquire the team's former practice facility in Earth City for $1.

FRAMINGHAM, MA AND EDWARDSVILLE – Ameresco, Inc. , (NYSE: AMRC), a leading cleantech integrator specializing in energy efficiency and renewable energy, today announced that its newly formed joint venture with Republic Services (NYSE: RSG), a leader in the environmental services industry, has achieved commercial operation at their landfill gas (LFG) to renewable natural gas (RNG) plant located at Republic Services’ Roxana Landfill in Edwardsville, Illinois in November. The Roxana RNG facility captures naturally occurring landfill gas and processes it into pipeline-quality RNG, a low-carbon transportation fuel. This project beneficially uses previously flared LFG to create RNG that will displace fossil fuel in a nearby Energy Transfer natural gas transmission pipeline. The facility, which is one of the largest of its type in North America, is designed to process 6,000 SCFM (standard cubic feet per minute) of raw landfill gas per minute. It is estimated that the

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A text message from a cousin suggests the suspected killer of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson had gone underground for months.

U2 drummer Larry Mullen Jr. has just released two new songs, both of which were written for the new documentary Left Behind, which is getting a theatrical release in January.The songs, “Between…

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From St. Louis Business Journal:  The St. Louis Board of Alderman voted Friday to spend an additional $8.9 million in federal pandemic aid funds for construction of a new 911 Dispatch Center. The vote was 11-1, with Alderwoman Sharon Tyus voting no. Final passage reappropriated American Rescue Plan Act funds from the Biden administration to meet […]

From West Newsmagazine:  The Chesterfield Planning Commission recommended rezoning approval on Nov. 25 for a multi-sport complex on a 19.5-acre property east of Eatherton Road and south of Wings Corporate Drive. It will include cricket fields, pickleball courts, sand volleyball courts, a clubhouse, pavilions and parking facilities. An existing house on the property will be renovated […]

Thanks to government-mandated backdoors in US telecom/broadband services, the FBI — at least in the form of an official who refused to identify themself — has had to recommend (albeit extremely half-heartedly) that encrypted communications are perhaps the only thing keeping phone owners from being actively surveilled by Chinese hackers. The news of a massive […]

From St. Louis/Southern Illinois Labor Tribune:  How will voters’ approval of Missouri’s Proposition A, increasing the minimum wage and allowing all workers to accrue paid sick time, impact union workplaces? Is there a difference for workers, such as in the construction industry, who work for multiple contractors in a single year? Under Prop. A, Missouri’s […]

A Washington University study has found that high-fructose diets can accelerate tumor growth by converting fructose into lipid molecules that cancer cells use to build new cellular membranes.

From St. Louis Business Journal:  Billionaire businessman Dan Gilbert moved his mortgage company’s headquarters from the suburbs of Detroit to downtown in 2010. At the time, Detroit had become the poster child of a failed American city, riddled with crime, declining population and a shrinking tax base that eventually led to the city filing for […]

From Webster-Kirkwood Times:  The city limits of Webster Groves are about to expand by about half an acre, pending final approval of a land annexation agreement between the cities of Webster and Maplewood. The parcel of land being sought for a boundary adjustment is located at 3635 S. Big Bend Blvd. and is the future […]

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From West Newsmagazine:  A restroom facility near the south entrance to the amphitheater will be built sooner than anticipated. In August, the Chesterfield City Council authorized a contract with Aspire Construction Services LLC in an amount not to exceed $2.4 million to construct back-of-house improvements at the Chesterfield Amphitheater. The project will include a fully […]

From St. Louis Business Journal:  Two separate homebuilders are planning new subdivisions next to each other in St. Louis County. Nearly 50 new detached houses are planned on 18.06 acres in Ellisville by development company McBride Berra Land Co., a joint venture of Chesterfield-based homebuilder McBride Homes and Oakville-based J.H. Berra Construction Co. At the […]