From St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Robin Proudie remembers working concessions at the old Busch Stadium as a teenager, selling popcorn and peanuts to hungry baseball lovers. Her favorite memory is the seventh game of the Cardinals’ 1982 World Series. After the final out, she joined hundreds of frenzied spectators who poured on the field to congratulate […]
(The Center Square) – A former information technology employee for a private university in St. Louis pleaded guilty to orchestrating a $2.1 million fraud scheme.
From St. Louis/Southern Illinois Labor Tribune: Ashley Cougill, an Insulators Local 1 journeyman, has been honored with a Tradeswoman Hero award from the North America’s Building Trades Unions (NABTU). The second-generation Insulator currently serves as an executive board member for Local 1. She’s also head of the Women’s Committee for the Midwest States Conference. She […]
From Construction Dive: Construction input prices decreased 0.9% in May due to declines in energy prices and broader slowing inflation, according to an Associated Builders and Contractors’ analysis of U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data released Thursday. The drop marks the first decrease in input prices in 2024. However, both overall and nonresidential construction costs […]
WASHINGTON — Scientists debated the origins of COVID-19 on Tuesday, trading barbs over whether the bulk of evidence available points to a natural spillover event from a wild animal or a virus designed in a lab and then let loose through an inadvertent leak. The hearing in front of the U.S. Senate Homeland Security and […]
McCarthy Building Companies, Inc. recently celebrated the topping out of the new 16-story patient care tower at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis. The work is part of BJC HealthCare’s Campus Renewal Project, a long-term initiative that replaces and renovates outdated patient care facilities on the Washington University Medical Campus with an overall focus on improving […]
TOPEKA, Kansas — The Kansas City Royals and Chiefs could receive hundreds of millions of dollars in sales tax revenue to move from Missouri and build new stadiums across the state line under legislation passed Tuesday by Kansas lawmakers. The House voted 84-38 and the Senate voted 27-8 to approve legislation that would expand a […]
In the conversation about keeping kids safe online, the actual experts with the most to offer are all too often treated as outsiders and interlopers. One such expert is Candice Odgers, Professor of Psychological Science and Informatics at the University of California Irvine, who has recently been involved in a lot of debates against people […]
Black American activists have expressed solidarity with Palestinian activists in the months since the war in Gaza began in October of 2023. In St. Louis, the relationship between Black and Palestinian American activists strengthened notably in 2014, after Michael Brown, Jr. — a Black teenager — was fatally shot in Ferguson, Missouri by then-Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson. But the connection between the two marginalized groups started well before then — and has evolved over the decades. St. Louis University Professor Chris Tinson shares the long history of Black and Palestinian solidarity alongside St. Louis activists Ohun Ashe and Omar Badran.
New York Post has published two stories dealing with Bush's claim in her 2022 autobiography that she removed tumors and helped child walk by laying hands on people.
Eagles are extending their time at the Las Vegas Sphere.After the presale launched for the initial run of eight shows at the state-of-the-art venue, the Rock & Roll Hall of Famers announced…
Alberto Musalem, in his first public remarks on monetary policy and the U. S. economy since he began his new role in April as president and CEO of the St. Louis Fed, said Tuesday he doesn't see interest rate cuts on the short-term horizon.
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