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St. Charles County Council tables massive subdivision development off Highway DD

2 years 4 months ago
On Monday evening, the St. Charles County Council made the decision to table a massive project. It's a proposed subdivision off Highway DD that's caused some conflict. The developer KM Investment Group IV proposed a plan to build a subdivision, called Tall Tree, in unincorporated St. Charles County, initially proposing 556 houses on a 356-acre site. KM later reduced its proposal to 452 homes across 298 acres. The homes closest together will be near Frontier Middle School and get farther apart…
Justina Coronel

Now Chicago Is Trying to Claim Cracker-Thin, Square-Cut Pizza

2 years 4 months ago
The pizza that is now "dominating menus from New York to Los Angeles," according to Bloomberg News, is a "crisp-crusted, tavern-style pie." Its "slim" crust "can be as crunchy as a Saltine cracker when it's done right." Yep, sounds familiar.
Sarah Fenske

Op-ed: Development processes stymie new housing in Tower Grove South

2 years 4 months ago

Tower Grove South is ideally situated close to Tower Grove Park and has two thriving commercial districts for its residents to easily walk to. Amenities like these are why my wife and I decided to buy a home there in 2017, but they have also caused home prices in the neighborhood to skyrocket. This has […]

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Adam Mizes

Sensitive Police, First Responder Communications Tech Used Flimsy Encryption And Suffered From Numerous Vulnerabilities For Years

2 years 4 months ago
Transparency is good, actually. For decades numerous sensitive infrastructure, military, and first responder systems in Europe and the U.S. have utilized a radio standard dubbed TETRA (Terrestrial Trunked Radio), which is used in radios made by Motorola, Damm, Hytera, and other major vendors. For 25 years secrecy surrounding the encryption algorithms used in TETRA kept researchers […]
Karl Bode

Archdiocese of St. Louis pauses 'All Things New' decrees for 7 parishes

2 years 4 months ago
The Archdiocese of St. Louis announced Monday that it would be suspending the mergers of several parishes that are appealing their closures to the Vatican. The "All Things New" restructuring plan goes into effect Tuesday, Aug. 1 and consolidates 178 parishes into 134. The plan includes merging 35 parishes into neighboring parishes and merging 15 parishes to create five new parishes. It will also reassign 158 priests. Those mergers are now being suspended for several parishes that are appealing…
Kelsi Anderson and Mercedes Mackay