From emissourian.com: Demolition work on the deck of the Highway 30 bridge over Interstate 44 in St. Clair could cause traffic snarls this week. The bridge and all entrance and exit ramps will close to traffic at 7 a.m. Thursday, March 2, according to a Missouri Department of Transportation news release. Bridge demolition will take place […]
From Builder Online: Panelists James Tobin, Keta Kosman, and Ed Brady shared the short-term outlook for legislation surrounding housing issues, lumber, and the labor market during the education session “The Outlook: A Complete Guide to Housing Trends, Forecasts, & Insights for 2023” at the 2023 International Builders’ Show in Las Vegas. During the session, moderated by NAHB […]
From Contractor Magazine: “With interest rates projected to normalize in the second half of 2023 as the Federal Reserve taps the brakes in its fight against inflation, the pace of single-family construction will bottom out in the first half of 2023 and begin to improve in the latter part of the year,” said Robert Dietz, chief […]
From NEXTSTL: This past week, a Missouri House committee advanced HB580, a bill that would place statewide limits on residential building energy codes and potentially make it illegal for St. Louis area municipalities to enforce portions of locally adopted ordinances. If made into law, the bill would weaken the 2018 suite of International Code Council (ICC) […]
COLUMBIA, Ill. – A devastating overnight fire destroyed the home at Charlotte Avenue in the Stonegate Estates subdivision of a well-known local car dealer George "Skip" Weber IV, and his wife, Lori. Columbia Fire Protection District Chief Mike Roediger said Tuesday morning the fire began around 2:15 a.m. Monday. When firefighters arrived the structure was fully event, the Columbia Fire Protection District Chief Roediger reported. Neighboring fire agencies were also called to assist the Columbia Fire team. Prairie Du Pont, Mehlville, Dupo, and Waterloo Fire Departments assisted Columbia, the chief said. It took a few hours to extinguish the blaze with the group battling the fire together. George and Lori were able to get out of the home safely and their children were also not present, but reportedly came to the scene to console their parents. Roedgier said the Illinois State Fire Marshal is investigating the blaze, but Chief Roediger said there was no reason to believe anything
What we can definitely say is that celebrated St. Louis mixologists Meredith Barry (Platypus, Netflix's Drink Masters) and Michael Fricker (Grand Spirits Bottle Co., Gin Room and Salve Osteria) are teaming up to open a new cocktail lounge this spring. They say it will be located within Grand Spirits, a natural wine shop that opened in December of 2021. They say it will going be about experimental drinks and be an "exploration of creativity" for Barry and Fricker.
From The Edwardsville Intelligencer: Don Garber has taken in plenty of new teams’ home openers during his time as Major Legaue Soccer commissioner. Since he assumed office in 1999, the league has grown from 10 teams to 30. Garber said he’s never seen anything quite like Saturday night’s St. Louis City SC inaugural home game at […]
From St. Louis Post-Dispatch: One of the first major construction projects around the perimeter of the under-construction National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency took a major step forward Wednesday after a city board voted to approve variances for the construction of an office building and hotel. The projects are proposed on the site of the infamous Pruitt-Igoe public housing […]
Update: The crash has been cleared and all lanes are open. COLLINSVILLE, Ill. -- A major crash near Collinsville has shut down all I-55/70 southbound lanes. Illinois State Police are working the scene and tell us the crash involves two cars and a semi truck. Troopers say a car ran into the median running into [...]
Even as Elon first made his bid for Twitter, we highlighted just how little he understood about content moderation and trust & safety. And, that really matters, because, as Nilay Patel pointed out, managing trust & safety basically is the core business of a social media company: “The essential truth of every social network is […]
State Sen. Rusty Black, R-Chillicothe, joins St. Louis Public Radio's Jason Rosenbaum and Sarah Kellogg to talk about a multitude of issues during the 2023 legislative session. That includes bills that would curtail the purchase of farmland by some foreign corporations and efforts to extend Medicaid to postpartum mothers.
"The struggles change from day to day, but it is still a step forward to be home where she can start seeing family and friends," Edmondson's mother said.
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