ST. LOUIS -- National Prescription Drug Take Back Day takes place this Saturday, October 28. This initiative provides a safe and anonymous way to dispose of unused or unwanted prescription medications, helping to combat addiction and pharmaceutical drug abuse. For over a decade, National Prescription Drug Take Back Day has addressed the issue of prescription [...]
MARYVILLE - Two were transported to trauma facilities in the St. Louis area after a pair of vehicles collided Thursday morning, Oct. 26, 2023, on Illinois Route 162 and Amberleigh Drive. With the two vehicles involved, five were injured in the accident. Three were transported to Anderson Hospital for evaluation and one was immediately transported to a trauma facility in St. Louis and another was transported to Anderson, then flown to a trauma facility in St. Louis. Maryville Fire Chief Doug Dankenberg said the vehicles ended up on Anderson Hospital property by the west entrance to the hospital at the end of the crash. He said there was a light pole struck and the west entrance to the hospital was closed for a small period of time while the area was cleared. The crash was dispatched as a head-on collision, but was actually a T-bone incident, the chief said. The Maryville Fire and Police crew were dispatched at 10:23 a.m. on Thursday, Oct. 26, 2023, Fire Chief Dankenberg said. He als
The Missouri Speaker of the House Dean Plocher was in damage control this morning when he appeared on an Internet-streaming show for his first interview since fellow Republicans began calling for his resignation — a clamor stemming from revelations in the Missouri Independent that Plocher sought reimbursement from the legislature for expenses his campaign had already paid for. Plocher, who represents west St. Louis County, was interviewed this morning by Missouri Times publisher Scott Faughn.
I know I'm a bug about adjusting things for inflation, but I still wonder: Why is it that stock market charts are never adjusted for inflation? Here's the post-pandemic S&P 500 adjusted for inflation: In nominal terms, the S&P 500 is up from 3800 to 4155 since the start of 2021. In real terms it's ...continue reading "Always adjust for inflation, stock market edition"
Walled Culture recently wrote about an unrealistic French legislative proposal that would require the listing of all the authors of material used for training generative AI systems. Unfortunately, the European Parliament has inserted a similarly impossible idea in its text for the upcoming Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act. The DisCo blog explains that MEPs added new copyright requirements to the Commission’s […]
GRANITE CITY - Granite City hosted a business summit for business owners to learn about property tax reform and economic development in Madison County. On Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2023, owners and community leaders listened to speeches by Granite City Mayor Michael Parkinson, Madison County Treasurer Chris Slusser and Granite City Economic Development Director Cathy Hamilton. “Part of economic development is retaining what you have,” Parkinson said. “It’s leadership working together and working for you.” Slusser spoke about tax reform and noted that Illinois has the second highest real estate tax in the country. The Property Tax Extension Limitation Law (PTELL) has been one proposed solution. PTELL is an optional law in IL counties that would limit tax increases. If the county hits the debt ceiling, PTELL also requires them to put out a referendum to voters about additional borrowing before any decisions are made. Slusser has researched PTELL for
A new three-part docuseries is set to take a deep dive into the murder of The Beatles legend John Lennon. John Lennon: Murder Without a Trial, narrated by actor Kiefer Sutherland, will air on…
Julie Dombo, a 69-year-old woman who became a quadriplegic after surviving a shooting in 2015 and then became a breast cancer survivor in 2019, met Taylor Swift at the Chiefs game Sunday where they beat the Chargers 31-17.
The leader of a St. Louis-area nonprofit organization faces a federal indictment that alleges she stole millions of dollars from a program aimed at feeding low-income children in Missouri, including during the pandemic.
MoCaFi has disbursed funds from guaranteed basic income programs in Los Angeles; Los Angeles County; Patterson, New Jersey; Philadelphia; and Columbia, South Carolina. Now it's looking to St. Louis. "We’ve developed a strength in that space."
This is the Rodin Museum in Paris. It is practically the definition of lovely and serene, right in the heart of the city. Plus there are sculptures by Rodin all over the place!
From Riverbender: Mayor Art Risavy has announced details of the Edwardsville Enhancement Plan, a strategy for creating a green corridor throughout the City, improving parks and public spaces and enhancing the community’s quality of life. “The City of Edwardsville is embarking on an exciting multi-year, multi-million-dollar initiative that will benefit the entire City,” Mayor Risavy […]
This week Construction Forum drone pilot and photographer Louis Kelly marked progress on Bemiston Place, a $101 million mixed-used development at Central, Maryland, and Bemiston Avenues in Clayton. Balke Brown Transwestern purchased the parcels of land to build the project from HBE Corporation. They had been assembled by Fred Kummer, the late HBE founder who […]
From St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Residents here criticized city leaders on Tuesday for ignoring their pleas to delay a plan to turn a former office campus into a “main street” development, with apartments, townhomes, hotels, office and retail. The residents vowed to put more pressure on city officials as the project advances. “We just wanted to […]
From Forbes: The urban landscape in the United States is undergoing a remarkable transformation, driven by technological, shifting consumer preferences and imagination. This evolution is shaping not only the way we live but also influencing the strategies employed in urban development. If you look around, it’s hard to miss some of the innovative approaches that […]
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