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Godfrey Closer Than Ever To Getting Hotel
GODFREY - The Village of Godfrey is closer than it’s ever been to getting a hotel. Economic Development Director Jim Mager announced on Tuesday that a national chain may be interested in building a Godfrey location if the village is willing to provide incentives. The interested company is Choice Hotels , which Mager described as a national chain with a nation-wide reservation system. Choice operates many hotels under various brand names , including Comfort Hotels, Quality Inn, and more - though it’s not clear yet which name and logo would be on the Godfrey hotel. “Where we are is that if the village comes in for a certain amount of money … I think Choice Hotels might have investors lined up,” Mager said, adding the project may also require some local investment. “We’re trying to put together a project to get it financed so it can move forward.” Mager said the next phase of the project is to develop a business plan to get
Announcing: 2024 MAP Awards Winners
At Paving the Way 2024, Trailnet will introduce the winners of the 2024 MAP Awards, an award series that acknowledges the contributions of exceptional Trailnet Members, Advocates, and Partners. To …
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Panera Bread to lay off corporate workers, memo says
NYT Crossword editors show remorse
Trivia Night Every Tuesday at Steve’s Hot Dogs
Stop in every Tuesday from 7:30 to 9:30 for Trivia Night with Mack and Mace at Steve's Hot Dogs. Stop at the table to sign up. Come back every week, […]
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Donald Trump’s entire campaign is now untethered from consensus reality
As long as we're on the subject of interviewing presidential candidates: Former President Trump turned down a "60 Minutes" offer of back-to-back conversations with both presidential nominees, with his campaign saying he didn't want interruptions for fact checks. https://t.co/yVRNAHsDop — Axios (@axios) October 1, 2024 Trump refuses to submit himself to a fact check. Could ...continue reading "Donald Trump’s entire campaign is now untethered from consensus reality"
St. Louis Blues vs. Columbus Blues Jackets
The St. Louis Blues will play the Columbus Blues Jackets at Enterprise Center on Oct. 1.
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The Thorn
The Thorn comes to Stifel Theatre on Oct. 1 and 2, telling the epic story of God’s love for the world and the spiritual battle for all humanity. Often described […]
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Ragtime
STAGES St. Louis will present Ragtime from Sept. 20 to Oct. 20. At the dawn of a new century, everything is changing and anything is possible. A sweeping musical portrait of early […]
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Postal worker steals over $1.5 million in checks from letters in MO center, feds say
Let us hold Donald Trump to normal standards of conduct. Please.
At the New York Times, Bret Stephens and Gail Collins take up their weekly conversation: Bret: I’m still where I was last week: waiting for Harris to persuade me to vote for her. What’s wrong with asking her to sit down for a one-on-one interview with a serious journalist who will ask some tough but ...continue reading "Let us hold Donald Trump to normal standards of conduct. Please."
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Frank & Helen's Pizzeria to close
The landmark University City pizzeria is slated to close December 8.
3 women run over by car while breaking up fight outside St. Louis nightclub
Iran hoists a white flag
Iran's "sharp escalation" today involved less than 200 missiles and, apparently, zero casualties. It's barely conceivable that this wasn't intensely deliberate. Twice now, Iran has lobbed missiles at Israel, and both times they've done it with plenty of warning, small numbers, and ineffective targeting. They might as well be wearing a sandwich board announcing that ...continue reading "Iran hoists a white flag"
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Violent crime dropping in St. Louis, city officials say
As the country gears up for National Night Out, St. Louis city leaders say violent crime is dropping, but there is still a lot of work to do.
President Carter is 100. The CIA still keeps his Camp David records secret
President Jimmy Carter turns 100 today. A fitting birthday present would be for the CIA to fully declassify its records on the 1978 Camp David Accords.
Camp David, one of the highlights of the Carter administration, established the framework for a peace deal between Israel and Egypt. Releasing the full record would not only commemorate Carter’s foreign policy legacy, it would add important context for policymakers as escalation continues between Israel and its neighbors.
Yet many of these documents are still overclassified.
A February 1977 National Security Council memorandum on “Arab and Israeli Reactions to US Steps in the Middle East” is a prime example of ongoing, excessive, needless secrecy. Large portions of the text are redacted, and the exemptions used to hide the information — and which should be cited — are missing.
An October 1977 memorandum on “Peace Negotiations and Israeli Coalition Politics” is similarly overclassified, as are many of the other 250 records in the collection.
It is not possible that all of this information, now almost 50 years old, must still be secret. The passage of time and the public interest in the records clearly outweigh whatever meager arguments might still exist for secrecy.
The CIA’s secrecy is even more galling when other agencies have released important Carter-era records.
The State Department this spring finally published its Foreign Relations of the United States collection on national security policymaking during the Carter administration. The FRUS is arguably the United States’ largest ongoing transparency initiative and serves as the official record of U.S. foreign policy.
The State Department is congressionally mandated to publish FRUS volumes 30 years after the events they document take place, but is regularly unable to do so because the CIA and Defense Department drag their heels in releasing information — which is why it took over 40 years for the Carter set to be published.
Historians have also worked hard to get the government to declassify Carter-era records. The indefatigable archivists at the nonprofit National Security Archive (where I previously worked) recently published a collection of 2,500 declassified high-level Carter policymaking records, covering everything from the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan to the Iran hostage crisis.
The efforts of historians and journalists are hampered not only by the CIA’s classification decisions but also by the National Archives and Records Administration’s inability to provide digital access to the Carter Presidential Library records.
As of today, NARA has only digitized 0.063% of its entire collection of Carter documents. Some of this digitization delay could be solved by giving NARA more money and better technology, but the agency also needs to reassess its priorities. Otherwise, the records from the Carter Library will be lost to future generations.
President Carter has said he wants to live long enough to vote in the 2024 election. We should hope for that, but we should also demand that the CIA and other agencies make his administration’s records available to the public.
Tuesday Movie Nights at Baileys’ Range
Spice up the fall season with Tuesday movie nights at Baileys’ Range. Each October screening also comes with happy hour specials, including $15 beer pitchers, $8 glasses of boozy lemonade, […]
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