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More taxpayer money benefits pro sports owners amid ‘stadium construction wave’

1 year 8 months ago

As sports stadiums built in the 1990s show their age, many professional sports teams are looking for new facilities — and public money to pay for them. “We are just in the heating up phase of the next stadium construction wave,” said J.C. Bradbury, a Kennesaw State University economics professor who has researched the issue. […]

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Kevin Hardy

⏳ STLduJour(nal) - MMXXIV:52-AM

1 year 8 months ago
⏳ STLduJour(nal) - MMXXIV:52-AM JW Wed, 02/21/2024 - 07:54 Events 📆
  • CITY Block Party - Events and meetings from the City of St. Louis, MO
  • St. Louis Zoo kicking off 'Animal Aglow' lantern festival next month - FOX 2
  • Everything you need to know about April's solar eclipse in Missouri - FOX 2
  • Missouri eclipse map: Which cities will have the best view? - FOX 2
  • STL Water Garden Society Looks for Hosts to Show Off Their Ponds at Pond-O-Rama - RiverBender
BuySTL 👜
  • Trade and Upgrade: Edwardsville's One-Stop Shop for Sports Equipment - RiverBender
Restaurants 🍲
  • Urban Eats welcomes community favorites Wheelhouse Fish Co. and Mr. Souvlaki - FEAST
STLfood ⚜️
  • Andy Taylor Is Eating His Way to the Best Pizza in St. Louis - RFT
Neighborhoods 🏡 STL99 😱
  • Family wants 2 hit-and-run drivers caught in St. Louis woman's death - KSDK
  • 'It's good to see them go': City officials begin demolition of vacant South Kingshighway buildings - KSDK
  • Seven vacant homes along Kingshighway coming down - FOX 2
  • Bob Cassilly’s Former Workshop Is in Peril of Demolition — Again - RFT
Police 🚓
  • St. Louis police chief gets third of pay from foundation, raising concerns of divided loyalties - Missouri Independent
LocalGov 🏛
  • Sam Page's pick for director of St. Louis County administration withdraws application - stltoday.com
MoGov 🏛
  • Missouri Freedom Caucus members criticized for spreading false information on KC shooting - stltoday.com
  • Missouri House bill would allow further testing for St. Louis radioactive waste - Missouri Independent
  • Missouri House votes to ban celebratory gunfire days after Chiefs' parade shooting - FOX 2
FedGov 🏛 Jobs 📄
  • Executive Secretary II (B.P.S) - City Jobs
  • Community Development Specialist - Jobs
  • Recreation Assistant (Seasonal) (Limited-Term) - Jobs
History 🦕 Sustainability ♻️
  • Money for clean water coming to every state - FOX 2
Infrastructure 🚽
  • Sinkhole closes area roadway in south St. Louis - FOX 2
  • MoDOT to close I-64 ramp to 14th Street for three weeks - FOX 2
Ecology 🦤
  • Prescribed Burn at Confluence Point State Park Promotes Ecosystem Health - RiverBender
Captain's Blog 🏴‍☠️
  • Apple Likely Adopting RCS Messaging Standard to Comply With Chinese Law - MacRumors
  • Critical infrastructure software maker confirms ransomware attack - BleepingComputer
  • Recent Zero-Day Could Impact Up to 97,000 Microsoft Exchange Servers - SecurityWeek
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Max ‘Enshittifies’ Itself By Making John Oliver Harder To Watch

1 year 8 months ago
Now that subscriber growth has slowed, streaming TV giants have taken the predictable turn of making their services shittier and more expensive to deliver Wall Street (impossibly) unlimited quarterly revenue growth. That means higher prices, annoying new surcharges, greater restrictions, more layoffs, more cut corners, worse customer service, and a lot of pointless mergers designed […]
Karl Bode

'It's good to see them go': City officials begin demolition of vacant South Kingshighway buildings

1 year 8 months ago
A St. Louis neighborhood is getting rid of a major eyesore. A stretch of buildings that's been vacant for decades is finally coming down. Barrett Nangle has lived in the area for nearly 15 years. "They just they had their time. It's kind of good to see them go," he said. Like many in the Forest Park Southeast neighborhood, Nangle has gotten used to walking his dog with this eyesore as part of the scenery. "They've been saying they want to do something with them for years, and they just over…
Mercedes Mackay

Democrat filibuster forces removal of ‘ballot candy’ from Senate initiative petition bill

1 year 8 months ago
A Democratic filibuster that stretched more than 20 hours ended Tuesday when Senate Republicans stripped provisions critics derided as “ballot candy” from a proposal to make it harder to pass constitutional amendments proposed by initiative petitions. By an 18-12 vote, with nine Republicans joining nine Democrats in the majority, language that stated non-citizens could not vote on constitutional amendments was removed, as were sections barring foreign governments and political parties from taking…
Rudi Keller

When will housing affordability improve? Spoiler alert: It will take some time

1 year 8 months ago

Inflation is slowing and job growth has surged, but many Americans still feel the burden of expensive housing — fueled in part by high demand, low inventory and mortgage rates. Home prices across the U.S. rose 5.5% over the past year in December 2023 and they are projected to increase 2.8% year over year by […]

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Casey Quinlan