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Two weekly tasks - going to the grocery store and filling up your gas tanks - are about to get more expensive in Illinois.

From Gensler: 1. Rethinking the design process Today’s design landscape is being underlined by market uncertainty, rising construction costs, and early procurement of materials and equipment. This is challenging designers to adapt and rethink their thought process when implementing traditional schematic design, design development, and construction documentation processes to help clients meet their scheduling goals and […]

As you’re hopefully aware, over the last few years, our Copia Institute think tank, in partnership with Randy Lubin’s Leveraged Play, have been using games and game-like tools for exploring complex realities in the present, as well as exploring potential future scenarios. On the latter front, we’ve done things like our Threatcast election disinformation simulator, […]

After more than two decades as America’s best-selling beer, Bud Light has slipped into second place.

While it remains the No. 1-selling beer in the United States year-to-date, Bud Light for the four week period ended June 3 was surpassed by Modelo Especial, according to Nielsen IQ data reporting in-store sales.

For the second time in roughly a year, St. Louis-based video game developer Graphite Lab has reached a publishing deal with gaming giant Atari for a game it has developed.

The parents of a 6-year-old girl who drowned at a Kansas City water park allege in a lawsuit that the park hires young, inexperienced lifeguards and fails to adequately train them.

The ripple effects of a large water main break in south St. Louis last week are still being felt, even after a boil water advisory was lifted in the area. It all started with a water main break on Friday at Donovan and Lansdowne Avenues due to changes in pressure. Fifteen others followed soon after, and city crews are still working to repair them. Some have buckled pavement while others resulted in water bubbling up and onto roadways. As of 2 p.m. Wednesday, the following breaks have been repaired…

Carole King’s Remarkable Life in “Beautiful” Is Perfect to Open The Muny’s 105th Season by Pat Lindsey It never feels like summer until The Muny opens. There’s magic in walking through those gates each June and entering a world of new creative experiences, old memories, and beautiful music that permeates the night air. It’s magical […]

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EDWARDSVILLE - The Edwardsville Police Department today announced plans for a stepped-up July Fourth traffic enforcement with a focus on impaired and unbuckled drivers. The safety campaign will run from Friday, June 16, through the early-morning hours of Wednesday, July 5, to encompass three summer weekends leading up to and after Independence Day. “It’s simple: If you’re driving, don’t drink, use marijuana or other drugs,” said Lt. Brandn Whittaker. “Our officers will be working around the clock to keep impaired drivers off the roads and enforce all other traffic laws. We’re doing it to save lives.” Edwardsville Police will join the Illinois State Police and more than 200 local police and sheriff’s departments for the increased statewide enforcement effort. Make sure everyone in your vehicle wears their seat belt. It’s not only the law but also your best defense against an impaired driver. The “Drive Sober or Get Pulled

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The Regional Arts Commission of St. Louis will make one of its largest grants allocations ever this year — nearly $4.5 million in grants to a total of 350 local artists and arts organizations.  Vanessa Cooksey, RAC CEO and president, and Andréa Purnell, commission chair, announced the new grants today at Old North's Central Print, one of the dozens of nonprofit grant recipients. 

Silhouette of a horse on a ridge on a stormy day in Trabuco Canyon.

From St. Louis Public Radio:  One of the early commitments from the $500 million that St. Louis received in pandemic aid was grants for small businesses and nonprofits in the northern part of the city. But the $37 million has been slow to flow to those entities since aldermen and the mayor approved the appropriation. […]

I’ve mentioned a few times that one of the decentralized social media services I’m following closely is nostr, which is an incredibly lightweight protocol, enabling lots of people to (very simply) create their own relays and clients. Unlike Mastodon or Bluesky, Nostr isn’t federated. You don’t join a server. You just get a key pair… […]

The Fed is finally backing off its endless series of interest rate hikes—but only slightly: The Federal Reserve is leaving interest rates unchanged for the first time since spring 2022, signaling a new chapter in the central bank’s fraught fight against inflation. ....The Fed also signaled more rate hikes would come before the end of ...continue reading "Fed finally backs away from yet another rate increase"

Today on TAP: A win at the negotiating table for the Teamsters will make delivering packages a little less dangerous.

The Butler Brothers building project includes a rooftop deck and pool, with views of the new soccer stadium, plus more amenities that make The Victor seem more like a hotel.

One day after the Stanley Cup Final ended, the St. Louis Blues announced two new coaching hires for the next NHL season.

In 2014, after more than a decade of lobbying, Congress passed a bill that transferred land near Oak Flat, Arizona, to a mining company that planned to build a huge copper mine on the land. This prompted opposition—and a lawsuit—from an Apache resistance group led by Wendsler Nosie Sr., a 64-year-old Apache elder, which claims ...continue reading "Is Oak Flat sacred?"

Naumann will face a mandatory minimum sentence of 15 years.