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According to Voteview, here's the skinny on Mike Johnson, our new Speaker of the House: He's pretty conservative, but a little less conservative than Jim Jordan. According to their ideology rankings, he's the 82nd most conservative member of the House, compared to 9th for Marjorie Taylor-Greene and 20th for Jordan.

Stifel Financial Corp. reported a 55% decline in quarterly net income that the St. Louis-based investment bank and financial services company attributed to “challenging market conditions.”

The number of new one-family homes purchased ticked up at an annualized rate of 83,000 in September: It's remarkable that new home sales have stayed so robust in face of massively higher prices: The last time prices increased like this, during the high-interest Volcker regime of 1979-82, new home sales were cut in half and ...continue reading "New home sales just keep on rising"

Looks like The Beatles are teasing fans with some news. The legendary band’s website and social media accounts shared a new post Wednesday, October 25, featuring an orange and white cassette tape that appears to be…

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TEUTOPOLIS, Ill. (WTWO/WAWV) — A report from the National Transportation Safety Board is revealing more about what happened during a deadly anhydrous ammonia spill that killed five and injured eleven others in Teutopolis in September. According to the report, the crash was caused by a vehicle attempting to pass a tanker vehicle that was carrying [...]

Arcadian Infracom has hired Brock Killen as its first full-time chief financial officer. Killen joins Arcadian after having most recently been president and chief operating officer at Creve Coeur-based Knowink, which provides election technology.

The confrontation broke out as about 1,000 people were gathered Sunday evening at a banquet hall in a northern Chicago suburb to show solidarity with Israel.

GLEN CARBON - 2023 has been a good year for the Glen Carbon Senior Center so far, with a wide variety of activities and programs for local seniors. Senior Center Administrator Felicia Voelkel gave a presentation to village trustees at their meeting this week to update them on the center’s progress this year. Voelkel said her time as administrator of the busy Senior Center has been “so far, so good.” “I’ve been at the Senior Center a little over a year, and so far, so good,” she said. “We’ve had a lot of activity, a lot of different projects going on.” The center hosts “Game Days,” which feature cookies, bingo, and the card game “Whoopee.” They also host an “Age Well” exercise class with a certified personal trainer, as well as a weekly Art Class which is currently working on a sculpture of a cardinal perched on a tree branch. Past activities included Chair Yoga and Tai Chi, the latter

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WASHINGTON — U.S. House Republicans on Wednesday voted for Louisiana’s Mike Johnson as speaker in a chamber that has been frozen for more than three weeks after former Speaker Kevin McCarthy was ousted. In a 220-209 party-line vote, all Republicans present backed Johnson, 51, a strongly conservative lawyer who represents northwest Louisiana’s 4th District. All Democrats […]

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Casey Jovick cut his teeth as a butcher. You understand the significance of this background upon taking your first bite of a classic double cheeseburger at his Princeton Heights restaurant, Jovick Brothers Burgers (4993 Loughborough Avenue, 314-390-2899), and marveling at the masterpiece of a smashburger he's created.

Ask the experts from the Missouri Department of Transportation, St. Louis and St. Charles counties and St. Louis City your questions about highways and roads. The live chat starts at 1 p.m. on Wednesday.

The City Council approved a concept plan to build apartments, 130 townhomes, retail space, hotels, office buildings and other commercial space.

Without their support, it’s not clear how proposals can get out of committee and to the full board for discussion.

Tawney Sweeney hopes she can recover more than 50 stamps from national parks across the country.

The House elected Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.) to be the 56th Speaker on Wednesday, capping off a chaotic three weeks that paralyzed the lower chamber in stunning fashion. In finally coalescing around a new leader, House Republicans hope that Johnson can steer them around a series of legislative and political landmines in the weeks and [...]

So after all this drama, Mike Johnson suddenly gets unanimous Republican support and is our new Speaker of the House? wtf? These people are crazy.

The TSA was imposed on us following the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. Supposedly necessitated by this “new” terrorist threat, the TSA shrugged into action, becoming another layer of irritating bureaucracy standing between benign travelers and their freedom of movement. Since then, it has gotten worse. The TSA has spent billions on tech, training, […]