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Alton School Board "Rejects All Bids" for McKinley School Building

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ALTON - The Alton Community Unit School District #11 Board of Education rejected all bids for the McKinley School building during the Board’s regular meeting on Tuesday, Nov. 21, 2023. The McKinley School building has not been occupied by the school district for a few years. Kreative Kids Learning Center previously occupied the building but relocated last year. The district decided to sell the building and “has received several inquiries so far from prospective bidders regarding McKinley School,” said Superintendent Dr. Kristie Baumgartner in an email. The district opened sealed bids on Nov. 21, 2023. During their meeting, they moved into a closed session to “discuss setting of a price for sale or lease of property owned by the public body,” according to the meeting agenda. The Board then resumed open session and voted to reject all bids. “The proposed motion is that the Board of Education refuse and reject all bids received during the sealed

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St. Louis County Council approves $128M Metro Transit budget for 2024 fiscal year

1 year 9 months ago
St. Louis County leaders voted to approve a $128 million budget for Bi-State Development, the organization that operates Metro Transit, in a 6-1 vote during a Tuesday afternoon council meeting. St. Louis County Councilmember Ernie Trakas was the only member Tuesday to vote against a bill to fund Bi-State Development's budget. The South County Republican argued the agency still needs to do better to improve poor service. "It is reckless of this body to pass this bill tonight and I will be voting…
Diamond Palmer

Nikki Haley Reinvigorates The GOP’s Breathless TikTok Hysteria… For The Children

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We’ve noted many times how the GOP’s obsession with TikTok is stupid, performative, and utterly hollow. For example, the party desperately wants to ban TikTok for “privacy reasons,” yet consistently opposes passing privacy laws, or regulating data brokers that traffic in far more data — at a far greater international scale — than TikTok executives […]
Karl Bode

Ukrainians find warm welcome in Sedalia after fleeing their war-torn country

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Before Russia invaded her country, Yuliana Bezlysiuk was making plans. She had studied business and accounting in Ukraine, earned three degrees and found a job as a clerk at a Ukrainian university. Early one morning in February 2022, all of her plans and dreams disappeared. “In one day, all of my plans go,” she said. […]

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Maggie Girardi

A Number of Tragedies

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Laumeier Sculpture Park’s 2023 Visiting Artists in Residence are Pittsburgh-based artists Lenka Clayton and Phillip Andrew Lewis. This collaborative duo utilizes innovative approaches to conceptualism and minimalism to realize their […]

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Rachel Huffman