The U.S. Senate on Thursday voted again in favor of legislation that would compensate those who developed cancer following exposure to World War II-era radioactive waste in St. Louis.
The legislation, sponsored by Republican Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri, extends the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act, which is set to expire, and expands it to cover individuals who were exposed to the radioactive waste that remains scattered across the St. Louis region.
It would also expand coverage to those who…
Today is the day for columnists everywhere to tell us what Joe Biden should really say in tonight's State of the Union address. Don't bother with them. Without exception, they're all stupid ideas. What Biden is going to do is present a laundry list of stuff he's done and stuff he wants to do, interrupted ...continue reading "My preview of tonight’s SOTU"
Wolfgang Van Halen has teamed up with the Mr. Holland's Opus Foundation music education charity to announce a new campaign called Adopt a School.The initiative aims to connect donors with…
This is from a Twitter post about a middle school in New York City that's adopted a phone-free policy: Yondr? What's that? That's clever. In comments to the Twitter post, a lot of people said they disliked phone-free policies because they wanted their kids to be able to contact them in case of a school ...continue reading "How to create a phone-free school"
by Tom Finan, Executive Director, Construction Forum Earlier this week, we wrote an article quoting Brandon Anderson, vice president of AGCMO on the need for more proactive action in the area of mental health for our construction team members. There’s a tremendous amount of momentum behind the movement of bringing awareness to the industry. We […]
Though you may not be familiar with the company, First Run Theatre has been supporting Midwest-based playwrights since its founding in 2002. In 2007 the company began producing the Spectrum festival of short plays, offering playwrights the opportunity to stage their works in progress and gather real-time feedback based on performer and audience response. Spectrum 2024 features seven new plays from six playwrights, directed by Melissa Balint Boyer and Rob Corbett and performed by an ensemble featuring Alex Alderson, Iris Clay, Ann Egenriether, Dorothy LaBounty, Justin Panacchia, Erica Perlow, Anna Rimar and Brad Slavik.
To You, I Go (2023) is Jessica Page’s visual love letter to St. Louis. Although St. Louis is rarely romanticized, Page aims to showcase the softest purest side of her […]
Peter Gabriel is set to appear in a new documentary, Resynator, which is set to premiere at SXSW. The film has director Alison Tavel trying to learn about her late father, Don Tavel, through…
Senator Ron Wyden is a one-man defense for preventing horrible bills from moving forward in the Senate. Last month, he stopped Josh Hawley from moving a very problematic STOP CSAM bill from moving forward, and now he’s had to do it again. A (bipartisan) group of senators traipsed to the Senate floor Wednesday evening. They […]
Metro East sound engineer Bob Heil built sound systems and equipment that influenced the development of live concert sound in the 1970s and ‘80s, and show up in music produced across genres through today. Heil died on February 28, 2024. We talk with Peter Palermo, executive director of the Sheldon Arts Foundation, about Heil’s legacy.
A Colorado wealth management firm with about $279 million in assets under management. has joined Moneta from Wells Fargo Advisors’ independent advisory channel, FiNet. The deal raises Moneta’s AUM to about $34 billion.
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