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A new report finds that Missouri is one of the toughest states to pass a driver's license test.

From Lincoln News:  Dreary, rainy weather couldn’t damper the enthusiasm at a ribbon cutting ceremony last week commemorating the grand opening of a Missouri Job Center office here in Troy. A collaboration between the Workforce Development Board of North Missouri, Gamm Incorporated, and the Lincoln County Missouri Economic Development Office the center, located at 260 […]

Eckert's Farm in Belleville is opening its strawberry fields for picking. Here's when you can visit and how much it'll cost you this year.

A total of $3.9 million has been allocated toward the replacement and ongoing maintenance of this system.

Privacy issues have been at the root cause of so many concerns about the internet, but so many attempts to regulate privacy have been a total mess. There’s now a more thoughtful attempt to regulate privacy in the US that is (perhaps surprisingly!) not terrible. For a while now, we’ve talked about how many of […]

From NPR:  Rakeb Tesfaye, a 5-year-old student at the Julia Goldstein Early Childhood Education Center in University City, said she enjoys playing outside because she gets to make friends. “And I get to go like this, and like this,” Tesfaye shared as she imagined herself swinging on monkey bars at a playground. She and her […]

ST. LOUIS -- Taco Bell is celebrating Taco Tuesday with a new $5 Taco Discovery Box. It comes with a star studded ad campaign featuring LeBron James and Jason Sudeikis. The $5 deal is available nationwide on Taco Tuesdays from April 23 to June 4. This promotional offer includes a new Cantina Chicken Crispy Taco, [...]

From West Newsmagazine:  A final vote was taken on the bid to construct phase one of the Village Green project on the west side of the Wildwood City Hall. Bombshell Construction Services LLC will be paid $1.9 million for phase one, which will include access and utility installations, the performance stage and oval, plus the […]

An often-bootlegged live album from Paul McCartney & Wings is finally getting an official release 50 years after it was recorded. One Hand Clapping was recorded at Abbey Road studios in August 1974…

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From Brookings:  This month marks the third anniversary of the passage of the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) and its $350 billion Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds (SLFRF) program, administered by the U.S. Department of the Treasury. State, local, and tribal governments have had three years to appropriate, obligate, and spend SLFRF dollars […]

From St. Louis Post-Dispatch:  Neighbors near where a developer wants to build two new apartment buildings on south Kingshighway expressed concerns about parking, traffic and housing affordability at a community meeting Saturday. Kansas City-based NorthPoint Development in February demolished a row of vacant, dilapidated houses at Kingshighway and Oakland Avenue. The company wants to build […]

From MRN:  At its April 11 meeting, the O’Fallon City Council conducted a public hearing and gave a first reading to two bills covering the proposed and controversial Post Family Subdivision. One bill would approve a petition for voluntary annexation of 103.73 acres at 1065 East Hwy. N. The land is currently in unincorporated St. […]

From The Wall Street Journal:  Barely a decade after Detroit declared bankruptcy, the city is emerging as America’s most unlikely real-estate boomtown. A development frenzy has gripped Detroit’s central business district. Big companies, including Ford and developer Related Cos., are spending billions of dollars on office buildings and other properties. Dan Gilbert, a Detroit native […]

An Illinois State Police trooper's squad car was struck on Interstate 55 in Macoupin County while the trooper was assisting motorists who were involved in a prior crash.

From St. Louis Post-Dispatch:  A litany of mistakes by a St. Louis County contractor, from a missing sewer line to the use of outdated designs, has delayed the opening of a new North County police precinct by almost a year, according to county documents. The $12.5 million North County police precinct, at 11030 Dunn Road […]

A large fire destroyed a rural Missouri home Monday afternoon in Iron County, though no one was hurt in the fire.

From St. Louis Business Journal:  A developer has submitted plans to build a pair of new condominium buildings in the Old Town neighborhood of Clayton, at the site of a historic house in what is mostly a single-family neighborhood. In a proposal submitted to the city Thursday, a three-story condo complex, 139 North Bemiston, would […]

The Biden administration finalized nursing home staffing rules Monday that will require thousands of them to hire more nurses and aides — while giving them years to do so. The new rules from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services are the most substantial changes to federal oversight of the nation’s roughly 15,000 nursing homes in more than three decades. But they are less stringent than what patient advocates said was needed to provide high-quality care. Spurred by disproportionate deaths…