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The Creve Coeur City Council on Monday night approved incentives for a developer’s near-$1 billion plan for part of the Bayer campus.

Deep Purple is getting ready to hit the road this summer on their = 1 More Time Tour celebrating 50 years of their classic tune “Smoke on the Water.”  The tour, featuring…

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Democrats say the proposal is political theater in an election year.

Sigh. The prostate biopsy results came back this morning and I have prostate cancer. It's "large and aggressive," but still probably treatable via normal radiation therapy. We won't know for sure until I get a CT scan and a bone scan that tell us whether the cancer is limited to the prostate or has metastasized ...continue reading "Health update"

Across the country, book challenges and bans have soared to the highest levels in decades.

Police say Julius Butler was caught with some of the stolen goods taken from the museum.

Commercial Development Co. plans to redevelop the 49-acre former Columbia Steel Casting Co. plant in North Portland.

The city of St. Louis didn't yet have record of the sale.

From St. Louis/Southern Illinois Labor Tribune:  The immigrant share of the labor force reached a record high of 18.6 percent in 2023, according to an Economic Policy Institute analysis of Current Population Survey (CPS) data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Anti-immigration advocates have been out in full force, using this as a talking point […]

From St. Louis Post-Dispatch:  The City Council here on Monday approved tax breaks for developers planning to redevelop half of Bayer’s former campus into a mixed-use “Main Street” concept. The council voted 6-1 to approve the incentive package for Olia Village, a $985 million project by Fireside Financial and Jack Matthews Development that calls for […]

A Dellwood man is accused in last week's robbery of a north St. Louis County supermarket.

From St. Louis Post-Dispatch:  The vacant former AT&T tower downtown has sold again, nearly a year after an effort to develop it fell through. Real estate development firm The Goldman Group of Boston bought the 44-story office building last week, real estate records show. A sale price was not publicly available. The seller, New York-based […]

I guess being incarcerated isn’t dehumanizing enough. Being treated like barely sentient meat deserving of any abuse perpetrated by guards or other inmates just isn’t enough oppression, apparently. This country talks a big game about rehabilitation and “paying your debt to society,” but when it comes to the day-to-day business of incarcerating people at a […]

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From Webster-Kirkwood Times:  A massive $22.1 million parks and recreation bond was passed in Webster Groves on Tuesday, giving the city the green light to begin the journey of myriad projects under the umbrella “Destination WG!” The funding will be used for what city leaders call a once-in-a-lifetime, transformational investment for the city — beginning […]

From Labor Tribune:  North County Labor Legislative Club is preparing to host its 33rd Annual Golf Tournament May 4 at Florissant City Golf Club. The tournament will begin at 7 a.m. with registration and an 8 a.m. shotgun start. Florissant City Golf Club is located at 50 Country Club Lane, Florissant, Mo. 63033. The tournament’s […]

From Safe Start:  Safety is one of the most reliable outcomes of employee engagement, which is really worker happiness in disguise. Happy employees are better at keeping themselves and their colleagues out of harm’s way for reasons both conscious and subconscious. Six aspects serve as examples of the mechanisms that translate happiness into incidents prevented. […]

It's a miracle! Suddenly conservatives no longer believe in a national abortion ban. It should be up to each state: Fox’s stars are rallying behind Trump’s abortion message. The network is a pro-Trump propaganda outlet first and foremost, not an ideologically conservative one. https://t.co/7Y4QZGQEJr — Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) April 9, 2024 If abortion is murder, ...continue reading "Abortion? It’s no big deal anymore."