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Letter To The Editor: City Experiencing Very Little Transparency Regarding Important Issues

2 years 1 month ago
Letter to the Editor: As I have mentioned before, Alton is experiencing very little transparency regarding important city issues. This has been a frequent complaint from many people. Aldermen have been handed resolutions at the start of council meetings to introduce and to approve of which they have no prior knowledge. It is just “Here read this resolution.” When they ask questions, the mayor looks around for someone else to answer, and often the answer is a shoulder shrug, or the person who could answer, is not there. If the council members are caught off guard, imagine how little informed we the citizens are. I have told many other citizens about this, and when they question me, I tell them to attend a meeting to witness for themselves or if that is not possible, watch the meetings streamed on RiverBender. Well, good luck with that. The ability to watch the meeting being streamed with sound is a coin toss at best as it is quite often unavailable. Many other municipalities

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Border Bullies

2 years 1 month ago
President Biden has kept far too many of Trump’s brutal immigration policies.
Prospect Staff

June 2023 Meeting

2 years 1 month ago

In this month's meeting we had guest speaker Dexter Silver talk about his art, Michael Dauphin from St. Louis City Assessor's office present on assessed real property and personal property taxes and assessed values, Alderman Browning provide board bill updates and action taken on the buildings along Kingshighway, and shared upcoming neighborhood events.

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FPSE Board

Just 23% Of Americans Know The U.S. Has Failed To Pass An Internet-Era Privacy Law

2 years 1 month ago
We’ve noted repeatedly how the hyperventilation about TikTok privacy is largely just a distraction from the U.S.’ ongoing failure to pass even a basic privacy law or meaningfully regulate data brokers. We haven’t done those things for two reasons. One, the dysfunctional status quo (where companies mindlessly over-collect data and fail to secure it, resulting […]
Karl Bode

In Between Two Worlds, a Journalist Goes Undercover with the Working Class

2 years 1 month ago
Freshly divorced and effectively destitute, former homemaker Marianne (Juliette Binoche) arrives in the northwestern French coastal city of Caen seeking a fresh start. She haunts employment offices and job fairs, looking for an employer who will take a chance on a middle-aged woman with a 23-year gap in her résumé.
Andrew Wyatt