From Webster-Kirkwood Times: The Des Peres Board of Aldermen and Novus Development are discussing a plan to develop 6.51 acres at the southeast corner of Dougherty Ferry Road and Highland Avenue. At the Feb. 26 board meeting, Novus requested to rezone the acreage from residential to planned development residential. The development would consist of nine […]
From St. Louis Business Journal: A new plan is in the works to redevelop a historic building in north St. Louis frequently eyed by various developers over the years. A city board on Wednesday signed on to a developer’s plan to rehabilitate the American Brake Co. building and turn the vacant 135,000-square-foot structure into apartments. […]
At 109-years-old, amid a busy media tour, it’s understandable that Viola "Mother" Fletcher-the oldest living survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre-didn’t say much during her presentation at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville yesterday. Still the packed audience inside the university’s Dunham…
Peter Gabriel celebrated the 25th anniversary of his iconic album So on tour back in 2013, and fans will now be able to relive the experience with the 4K Ultra High Definition Blu-ray…
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — President Joe Biden has won Missouri’s primary, the state Democratic Party announced. Biden’s win was not in doubt; he has already beaten his major competitors. But the primary races are still closely watched by insiders for turnout and signs of protest voters. Saturday’s primary was the Missouri Democratic Party’s first party-run [...]
Only one more exhibition game separates the St. Louis Cardinals from a new baseball season. Final roster preparations are underway as the team opens the 2024 regular season on Thursday.
For 200 miles, the Wabash River forms the border between Illinois and Indiana as it meanders south to the Ohio River. On the Illinois side, lawmakers are scrambling to pass a bill that would protect wetlands from development and pollution, in order to safeguard water quality and limit flooding. But in Indiana, state policymakers hastily […]
Do you love where you live? From large communities down to small neighborhoods, a new Niche study ranks the best places to live in the United States in 2024.
ST. LOUIS -- Beneficial rainfall has ended and now cold, gusty winds are settling in. Tuesday will see nearly steady temperatures in the 30s to lower 40s. Wind chills will be in the 30s all day with wind gusts to about 25 mph. Tonight and tomorrow night will both see temperatures near freezing, with patchy [...]
Right after Elon took over Twitter, we published what we had hoped would be a useful “speed run” through the content moderation learning curve that most platforms figure out along the way. We’ve seen other “free speech!” platforms learn these basic lessons, though not always quickly enough to survive. The basic idea is that no […]
Missouri House Speaker Dean Plocher, fending off an ethics investigation into allegations of misconduct, announced Tuesday he will drop out of the lieutenant governor’s race and instead seek the GOP nomination for secretary of state.
The announcement comes on the final day candidates can file to run for the August primary. And it also comes the same day as the House Ethics Committee will hold its fifth hearing of the legislative session in its ongoing investigation of Plocher, a Des Peres…
Boeing's St. Louis-based defense programs are in a separate unit from the embattled commercial airplane business. But the one isn't entirely insulated from the other.
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