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There was no good news on inflation today. According to the latest BLS figures, headline CPI jumped to 6.4% in January while core CPI increased slightly to 5.1%. As usual, monthly data is volatile, so the trendline is the better thing to look at. It's still moving in the right direction. Measured year-over-year—which is the ...continue reading "Inflation jumps higher in January"

"I have realized that my true calling lies in interior design," owner Lauren Thorp said.

Part of the restructuring process is set to include closing stores in low-traffic regions as Tuesday Morning pursues the optimization of its footprint and a focus on core and heritage markets. The retailer has four St. Louis-area locations.

Experience a beloved tradition in a brand-new space as the annual Orchid Show returns in its new home in the Jack C. Taylor Visitor Center’s Emerson Conservatory.   For most

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Breathe is a collection of large-scale abstract paintings created through the unconscious combination of bold colors and free movement. Artist Lauren Younge uses acrylics to design irregular patterns that could motivate

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At least two times this past weekend, chunks of concrete mysteriously struck the cars of St. Louis drivers on Interstate 64 near the Hampton Avenue overpass. The St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department is investigating but says it is not clear that the incidents are the result of rocks being thrown onto the highway. One incident occurred Sunday night around 6 p.m. when a piece of concrete struck a red Nissan as it passed under Hampton while headed eastbound on I-64.

The new exhibition celebrates the Black experience through the work of a dozen artists.

From Gray Design Group: Creating a space that positively impacts people and the community is at the core of our design philosophy at Gray Design Group. Developed in 2013, the WELL Building Standard improves people’s lives by creating spaces that enhance occupant health and quality of life. To create an environment that improves the mind, body and performance of […]

From NAWIC Blog:  The GenZ generation represents the youngest members of the workforce, ranging in age from teens to about 25 years old. Unlike for their mothers, or even grandmothers, being a woman in construction today is much more common. When the oldest members of the GenZ generation were born, there were less than 800,000 […]

From Saint Louis County Missouri: Beginning today, all construction plans for both residential and commercial projects can be submitted online using the new Citizen Permitting Portal. Until now, printed plans could only be dropped off in Clayton to be reviewed by the Public Works Department, which costs applicants thousands of dollars per project. Then Code Enforcement employees […]

St. Louis Cardinals and Blues television partner Bally Sports Midwest appears to be heading toward bankruptcy court.

From St. Louis business Journal: The developer behind the $1.2 billion construction innovation district and mixed-use development proposed on the downtown St. Louis riverfront will move forward with an initial 12-acre phase, after securing master development rights Thursday from a city board. As proposed by New York-based developer Good Developments Group, the Gateway South project will […]

From The New York Times: A few days ago The Times published a very interesting column by my colleague Ezra Klein about America’s peculiar lack of progress in the art of building things. Drawing on a recent paper by Austan Goolsbee and Chad Syverson, he noted that at least according to official statistics, we’ve gone a half century without […]

From Beyond Housing: For the last several months, I have been preaching from the book of regional self-interest about the need to invest in our collective future. I firmly believe in the truth that our region is only as strong as the communities within it, and that if we are going to change the trajectory of […]

From Mackey Mitchell Architects:  Mackey Mitchell Architects celebrated a 2022 filled with change, growth, and momentum at The Leona in St. Louis in December. Over delicious food and drinks, the hours seemed to fly by talking to new and old colleagues, and watching our cheery and at times uproarious presentation featuring highlights from the past year […]

St. Louis County police chased a shooting suspect about four miles north into the city's Mount Pleasant neighborhood after a person was shot early Tuesday.

We’ve noted for a long while that the performative hysteria surrounding TikTok is basically a giant distraction from our failures on consumer protection and privacy legislation. Case in point: the growing number of mental health apps that routinely collect and monetize sensitive consumer mental health data, yet fail to meaningfully protect the data they collect. […]