From Ladue News: Great Rivers Greenway has built over 135 miles of greenways connecting the St. Louis area together, and they’re not stopping there. The public agency, which was founded in 2000 after a vote from people in St. Louis City, St. Louis County and St. Charles County to create a sales tax solely devoted […]
From Marketplace: There are more new homes being built in this country right now than there have been in a while. Housing starts grew by more than 21% from April to May, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. And they’re up almost 6% over this time last year. The number of new homes that were just […]
The New York Times recently featured St. Louis in its “Walks Around the World” series. That St. Louis walk starts at “Pillars of the Valley,” the art installation that memorializes the lost neighborhood of Mill Creek Valley, just outside CityPark. We listen back to a February conversation with artist Damon Davis and former Mill Creek Valley resident Vivian Gibson about “Pillars of the Valley.”
From St. Louis Business Journal: The largest community development program run by Legal Services of Eastern Missouri has opened an office in Old North St. Louis, filling a vacancy in a two-block area that was part of a major redevelopment 13 years ago. The program has changed its name from the Neighborhood Vacancy Initiative to […]
Starbucks workers at four unionized stores in the St. Louis region walked off the job Monday, joining a nationwide strike over reports that some Starbucks stores have not allowed LGBTQ+ Pride displays this year. St. Louis region barista Alex Barge shares why she joined the strike and what’s changed since her store joined Starbucks Workers United last year.
WASHINGTON – U.S. Representatives Darin LaHood (R-IL) and Grace Napolitano (D-CA) reintroduced legislation to designate Route 66 as a National Historic Trail. U.S. Representatives Jake LaTurner (R-KS) and Joe Neguse (D-CO) joined LaHood and Napolitano as original cosponsors. “Route 66 is a historic transportation artery that connects America’s heartland to the west,” said Rep. LaHood. “The Mother Road provides powerful economic development tools for communities throughout Illinois, creating jobs and opportunities. Designating Route 66 as a National Historic Trail would provide this highway with a permanent program to preserve, promote, and economically develop the road, giving it the appropriate designation it deserves.” "National Historic Trail designation of Route 66 would deliver much-needed federal dollars, resources, and jobs, not only to our San Gabriel Valley communities, but the countless others stretching from Chicago to Sant
WEST ALTON - The Audubon Center at Riverlands is sharing how to watch out for wildlife and get involved in conservation efforts this summer. “Everybody can do something. The Center is a great place to start because we will throw as many resources at you as you want,” Ashley Lockwood, an educator at the Center, said. In the Alton area, many people have expressed concerns about turtles on the roadways . Lockwood acknowledges that some destruction is hard to avoid, but she encourages people to be vigilant and, if it’s safe to do so, move the animals off the road. “It’s just a part of wildlife and humans living together. There’s always going to be some give and take,” Lockwood said. “But luckily, there are a lot of organizations in this area. There’s a lot of citizen groups that are really committed to doing as much as we possibly can to minimize that.” This includes the Center itself, which specializes in birds but
Neal Schon is paying tribute to legendary guitarist Eddie Van Halen. The Journey guitarist shared a video of him shredding on his EVH Striped Series guitar, which resembles Eddie's red striped guitar, but in white. “A…
From Contractor’s Compass: I remember the first subcontract I ever read as a baby attorney. My exact thoughts were this thing is so bad you are better off burning it than trying to fix it. It was so one-sided in the general contractor’s favor that it would be easier to start from scratch than to […]
On the eve of the NHL Draft and just hours after their first trade of the offseason, the St. Louis Blues have unveiled their schedule for the 2023-24 regular season.
From Contractor: The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) Chair Charlotte A. Burrows issued a report today titled, Building For The Future: Advancing Equal Employment Opportunity in the Construction Industry. The report provides findings and next steps based on the agency’s enforcement experience, witness testimony presented at the EEOC’s May 2021 hearing on discrimination and harassment in construction and other […]
ALTON - Rob and Mac Lenhardt both have some big goals for the future with the hope for a collective 30 convenience stores, pizza places, or small restaurants over the next decade. The Lenhardts are already off to a strong start. Rob Lenhardt said on Tuesday the goal is to do two to three new locations a year, starting with neighboring cities. Rob Lehnhardt stressed whatever the city needed, whether it was a convenience store, restaurant or pizza place they would unveil. He also emphasized they wanted to keep their operations at the start within 20 minutes of the Belle/Third Street in Alton location, but would eventually go broader than that. Mac’s first convenience store was adjacent to the bar/restaurant on Belle Street in Alton and it has been phenomenally well-received, he said. Rob admitted they learned a lot with the expansion after adding a convenience store and will put that to good use as they continue to grow. “We are working on a pizza place/gaming establishment
JERSEYVILLE - Sprinkles the Donut has been stolen from BigBoy’s Donuts in Jerseyville. The donut shop posted on their Facebook page last night that Sprinkles had been taken, and asked for the public to share the news of his disappearance in the hopes of bringing Sprinkles back home. “Sprinkles is missing again!” they announced in the post. “No questions asked if he is returned just please help us get him back home so we are able to celebrate with him during the parade & fair that is coming up!” When he’s not making appearances out in public or visiting with customers in the shop, Sprinkles is usually posted by the State Street entrance into the donut shop’s parking lot. As of Tuesday afternoon, BigBoy’s Donuts Owner Becky Matthews said there has been no update on Sprinkles’ whereabouts. She said he’s actually been missing for three or four days now, but she avoided making the situation public until this point in hope
From Missouri Independent: City leaders in Storm Lake, a rural community of 11,000 in Northwest Iowa, are asking residents not to wash their cars or water their yards and gardens during the hottest part of the day. The city also has cut back on watering public recreational spaces, such as ballfields and golf courses. These […]
ST. LOUIS -- The air quality is moderate, not dangerous in the St. Louis area Tuesday. But, don't be surprised if you smell a hint of smoke in the air. The Litchfield Fire Department says that the hazy conditions outside are from the Canadian wildfires. The smoke now stretches from the US border through Chicago [...]
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