ALTON - The Three Rivers Project of Sierra Club Illinois, Alton YWCA, and Milton Schoolhouse Gardens are hosting two Seed Swaps this winter to provide community members with a sociable space to swap and share quality seeds, cuttings, and bulbs. Join fellow farmers and gardeners in celebration of the start of the spring gardening season at this community event, which is free and open to all. The first seed swap will be held at the Alton YWCA on Sunday, February 4 from noon to 2 p.m. To register for the first Seed Swap at the Alton YWCA, visit fb.me/e/4e7pMM96X . The second seed swap will be held at the Milton Schoolhouse in Alton on Saturday, March 9 from noon to 2 p.m. To register for the Seed Swap at the Milton Schoolhouse, visit fb.me/e/3wvF60MU9 . If you are sharing self collected seeds, please label the homegrown seeds with the common or species name, year, and your name. If you are sharing commercial seed packets, there is no need to label the packets. “Seed swaps
Dr. Ilyasah Shabazz, daughter of civil and social rights icon Malcolm X, brought a spirit of justice, equity, and love to the St. Louis University Busch Student Center on January 18, 2024.
Hush-a-Phone, Scissor Phones, One of the First Rotary Dial Phones – these are some of the telephones you’ll see at the Jefferson Barracks Telephone Museum. Housed in a restored 1896 […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) and U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) today urged the bipartisan leadership of the Senate Appropriations Committee to provide significant additional federal support to interior cities, including the City of Chicago, to help these cities more effectively address the ongoing migrant crisis. In today’s letter, the Senators expressed strong support for fulfilling the urgent request of interior cities to invest at least $5 billion in the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Shelter and Services Program to ensure these communities are able to continue receiving, processing and caring for arriving families, particularly vulnerable children, in a safe and humane manner. “We write to express strong support for fulfilling the request of interior city Mayors, including the Honorable Brandon Johnson, Mayor of the City of Chicago, to appropriate $5 billion for the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) today met with child care advocacy groups to discuss a path forward for legislation supporting children, working families, and child care providers. During their meeting, Durbin spoke about his support for child care tax incentives to improve child care accessibility and support working families in covering the costs, as well as his support to provide increased wages for child care workers. Durbin has repeatedly pushed for increased funding for child care programs, including financial support for Head Start and Child Care and Development Block Grants. He is also a cosponsor of the Child Care for Working Families Act , which would help make child care more affordable and provide pay parity with elementary school teachers for similarly credentialed child care educators. While the average annual cost of child care in Illinois is $14,184 for infants and $12,192 for toddlers, child care workers in Illinois only receive
CHICAGO - Attorney General Kwame Raoul announced that a federal appeals court upheld a court order that Illinois, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), and six other states won against Martin Shkreli, who was previously convicted for engaging in illegal and monopolistic behavior as the CEO of Vyera Pharmaceuticals, previously known as Turing Pharmaceuticals. Raoul said the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit affirmed the January 2022 lower court’s decision , which found that Shkreli violated both federal and state laws by engaging in an illegal scheme to maintain a monopoly over a lifesaving drug, Daraprim, after increasing its price by over 4,000%. As a result, Shkreli is banned for life from participating in the pharmaceutical industry and ordered to pay $64.6 million. “I am pleased this decision was upheld because Illinois residents’ lives depend upon pharmaceutical companies and their officers operating fairly and with patients’ best interests in
Ray Hartmann writes that schoolchildren in St. Louis who happen to be poor, Black and disabled have been awarded a dubious new distinction: They are among the most generous in the nation in reducing risks and providing support for developers.
Green Door Art Gallery is pleased to partner with Bobby Lessentine, Financial Advisor, Edward Jones, in presenting Upon Further Reflection, a collection of oil and cold wax paintings by Mark […]
In addition to posting the $25,000 bond, former officer Matthew McCulloch must check into a St. Charles psychiatric hospital and complete treatment in a locked unit with 24-hour supervision.
Spending from large federal grants and a shrinking but substantial state surplus will propel Missouri to record spending in the coming year if lawmakers adopt the $52.7 billion budget proposal from Gov. Mike Parson.
Unlike last year’s budget proposal, which included nearly $900 million from general revenue to improve Interstate 70, Parson has no large proposals for using the surplus that was nearly $6.4 billion at the end of December.
Instead, increases in ongoing spending, including raises for…
ALTON - Alton Band Director Blake Korte has announced several students represented his high school at the recent SIUE Bi-State Concert Band Festival. Korte congratulated the students who participated. "It is quite an honor to participate as a record number of applicants (over 300) applied this year," he said. Below are selections for different categories: Cougar Honor Band Dr. Carolyn Barber, Conductor Spencer Leonard - Tenor Saxophone Keysar Butler - Baritone Saxophone Joseph Hicks - Double Bass Wesley LeBrun - Percussion Red Festival Band Ryan Lipscomb, Conductor Briana Wermke - Tenor Saxophone Quinn Halliday - Trumpet White Festival Band Eric Chrostoski, Conductor Benjamin Paris - Euphonium Madalyn Schrumpf - Euphonium Riley Voumard - Percussion
You might recall that back during the net neutrality wars Netflix was a notable supporter of the concept, arguing that big ISPs shouldn’t be able to pick and choose winners and losers on their networks, or use their monopoly over broadband access to undermine competition over their networks. Then, you might recall that as Netflix […]
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