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The American economy gained 216,000 jobs last month. We need 90,000 new jobs just to keep up with population growth, which means that net job growth clocked in at a moderate 116,000 jobs. The headline unemployment rate was unchanged at 3.7%. This is a perfectly reasonable report, but the bad news is that December saw ...continue reading "Chart of the day: Net new jobs in December"

Area hospital officials earlier this week noted an increase in flu and COVID cases, but didn’t sound any alarms.

From Construction Dive:  Construction needs to find more workers, and there are no easy-to-fill jobs in the industry. In fact, according to an Associated General Contractors of America survey of its members, 91% of contractors had trouble filling positions last year, and experts say the labor crunch for these positions isn’t going to let up anytime […]

Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) offers indigenous wisdom to "conventional" society, where responses to issues like climate change and biodiversity loss need all hands to work together.

      

Cathy "Cat" Techtmann serves as a University of Wisconsin-Extension Environmental Outreach State Specialist. She weaves together indigenous science, place-based knowledge, and academic science to "decolonize" climate education. Cat coordinates the UW- Extension Climate Leadership Team and is a member of the UW-Extension Native American Task Force. She lives and works in the homeland of the Lake Superior Ojibwe people and works out of the Iron County UW-Extension Office in Hurley, WI.

Cathy "Cat" Techtmann, University of Wisconsin-Extension Environmental Outreach State Specialist. She weaves together indigenous science, place-based knowledge, and academic science to "decolonize" climate education. Cat coordinates the UW- Extension Climate Leadership Team and is a member of the UW-Extension Native American Task Force. She lives and works in the homeland of the Lake Superior Ojibwe people and works out of the Iron County UW-Extension Office in Hurley, WI.

 

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It appears as though Lenny Kravitz has given the thumbs up to his daughter Zoë Kravitz’s engagement to Channing Tatum. "Hey man, that's life," Lenny told Entertainment Tonight when asked about the happy news. "When your…

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City employees in St. Louis are recommended to mask up when working indoors due to an increase in respiratory virus cases in the region, the health department said Friday afternoon, after previously saying that masks were required. Gov. Mike Parson's office confirmed to KSDK it had a conversation with Jones' office on Friday related to the city's mask policy shift. In the earlier statement, St. Louis Director of Health Matifadza Hlatshwayo Davis said the new rule took effect Friday and requires…

Kevin O'Shaughnessy has lived without a wheelchair and developed a hernia the size of a cantaloupe on his side that went unaddressed for months while incarcerated at the St. Louis jail, his family said Thursday.

Two of the city's favorite local eateries have teamed up to create a unique combination of foods for a limited time only.

Residents can cast votes for ideas they want the Board to prioritize for consideration.

St. Louis American Publisher and Executive Editor Donald M. Suggs said, “Kevin’s sudden passing has left all The St. Louis American team stunned and deeply saddened.

Warmer weather means ice has not covered waterways farther north, so the birds do not have to make the trip all the way to St. Louis.

St. Louis’ bid to bring a major international hockey tournament to St. Louis has fallen short. USA Hockey said Friday it has awarded the Twin Cities of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, Minnesota, as host of the 2026 2026 International Hockey Federation World Junior Championship.

ILLINOIS - For State Representative Amy Elik, the first year of her two-year term has been a point of pride as she passed several bipartisan bills in 2023. Elik is a Republican who represents the 111th District in Illinois with a homebase in Alton. She is planning a “whole host of additional bills for 2024,” and she is excited to hit the ground running when the 103rd General Assembly returns to Springfield on Jan. 16. In the meantime, she is pleased with the bills she worked on during 2023, and she breaks down some of those bills for her constituents. “I would say all were and I’m really proud of that,” Elik said. “I do a lot of preliminary work to make sure that we send a bill through in that manner. That’s important to me. It’s important to me to have cosponsors on both sides of the aisle. It just helps ensure that you’re doing good policy, that you’ve listened to both sides of the aisle and their concerns and wha

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Nearly every abortion is illegal in Missouri.  But that hasn’t slowed the pace of anti-abortion legislation in the Missouri statehouse.  As lawmakers return to the Capitol for the 2024 legislation session, Republican lawmakers have already filed numerous bills seeking further restrictions on abortion and abortion providers. Yet even the staunchest anti-abortion activists concede it’s unlikely […]

The post With most abortions illegal in Missouri, few expect new bills will get traction this year appeared first on Missouri Independent.

For 95 years, St. Louisans went to the landmark department store Famous-Barr to shop for gifts and celebrate special moments. Although Famous-Barr shuttered in 2006, people have kept wonderful memories […]

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