“Here’s to Champagne problems!” a 20-something brunette in a ball gown cheers, her voice as bubbly as her lifted flute. It’s opening night at Alamo Drafthouse for what bodes to be one of the biggest movies this fall — not a Spielberg thriller, Halloween horror flick or Oscar-baiting period piece, but a film version of the highest-grossing concert tour of all time, starring none other than planet Earth’s favorite blonde American.
Three companies are proposing pipelines to carry CO2 from ethanol plants in the Midwest. The projects would go through farmland and past small towns, leaving rural first responders worried about safety.
The $21 million grant program in Illinois has launched to help clean energy contractors, especially those from underserved areas, grow their businesses.
Groups like the National Digital Inclusion Alliance have consistently released studies showing that telecom giants like AT&T, despite billions in subsidies and tax breaks, routinely avoid upgrading minority and low income neighborhoods to fiber. Not only that, the group has documented how users in those neighborhoods even struggle to have their existing (older and slower) DSL lines repaired. Regional […]
Four weeks into the United Auto Workers strike against the Detroit Three automakers, union President Shawn Fain announced in a livestream that the union would no longer wait until Fridays to expand its strike to new plants.
“We’re entering a new phase of this fight, and it demands a new approach,” Fain said Friday.
While Fain did not call for additional strikes against General Motors, Ford or Stellantis during the livestream, he said the UAW was prepared to call more local unions to walk…
Rex Sinquefield, a retired businessman has been a philanthropic force in St. Louis, and a political force in Jefferson City. His approach to influencing public policy has evolved. After years of eye-popping political contributions and pitched battles that made him a polarizing figure, he's embraced more subtlety recently.
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 […]
This summer, Abstrakt Marketing Group, by far the largest employer in Laclede's Landing, grew increasingly frustrated by the city's inaction on the large unhoused population living on the riverfront near its offices. "I propose you come out of your office and show up," says one email from Abstrakt sent to various city officials, including the mayor.
Girls from 17 St. Louis area high schools and organizations were recently introduced to careers in the aviation industry during the 2023 Girls in Aviation Day event at St. Louis Downtown Airport.
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