From REjournals: To mark Women in Construction Week 2024 – which enters its final day today – Clayco, which has Midwest offices in Overland and Clayton, Missouri; Lenexa, Kansas; and Chicago, polled its female leaders about the many myths surrounding women in the construction industry and the actual truths that shatter those falsehoods. Here is […]
For many years, Washington University has portrayed one of its founders, William Greenleaf Eliot, as an abolitionist. But, in 2021, a group of students and faculty released findings that disproved that notion and even showed Eliot was vehemently opposed to abolitionism. Three years later, the university has now established a Naming Review Board that gives people the opportunity to challenge the names of buildings, professorships, and scholarships that are named after people with problematic legacies.
Hosted by Public School House in Cottleville, Missouri, Shamrocked, a St. Patrick’s Day-themed pop-up bar, will run from March 6 to 15. Enjoy eats from Sugarfire Smoke House and drinks […]
The U.S. Senate on Thursday voted again in favor of legislation that would compensate those who developed cancer following exposure to World War II-era radioactive waste in St. Louis.
The legislation, sponsored by Republican Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri, extends the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act, which is set to expire, and expands it to cover individuals who were exposed to the radioactive waste that remains scattered across the St. Louis region.
It would also expand coverage to those who…
Today is the day for columnists everywhere to tell us what Joe Biden should really say in tonight's State of the Union address. Don't bother with them. Without exception, they're all stupid ideas. What Biden is going to do is present a laundry list of stuff he's done and stuff he wants to do, interrupted ...continue reading "My preview of tonight’s SOTU"
Wolfgang Van Halen has teamed up with the Mr. Holland's Opus Foundation music education charity to announce a new campaign called Adopt a School.The initiative aims to connect donors with…
This is from a Twitter post about a middle school in New York City that's adopted a phone-free policy: Yondr? What's that? That's clever. In comments to the Twitter post, a lot of people said they disliked phone-free policies because they wanted their kids to be able to contact them in case of a school ...continue reading "How to create a phone-free school"
by Tom Finan, Executive Director, Construction Forum Earlier this week, we wrote an article quoting Brandon Anderson, vice president of AGCMO on the need for more proactive action in the area of mental health for our construction team members. There’s a tremendous amount of momentum behind the movement of bringing awareness to the industry. We […]
Though you may not be familiar with the company, First Run Theatre has been supporting Midwest-based playwrights since its founding in 2002. In 2007 the company began producing the Spectrum festival of short plays, offering playwrights the opportunity to stage their works in progress and gather real-time feedback based on performer and audience response. Spectrum 2024 features seven new plays from six playwrights, directed by Melissa Balint Boyer and Rob Corbett and performed by an ensemble featuring Alex Alderson, Iris Clay, Ann Egenriether, Dorothy LaBounty, Justin Panacchia, Erica Perlow, Anna Rimar and Brad Slavik.