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Urban composting is a growing business — but cities like St. Louis are unprepared

STL on the Air 📻
2 years 6 months ago
More than a third of food grown in the U.S. goes uneaten. Food waste takes up space in landfills and produces methane, a powerful greenhouse gas that contributes to climate change. Harvest Public Media Reporter Eva Tesfaye digs into current zoning laws in places like St. Louis, where urban composting sites are beginning to pop up. The owners of New Earth Farm, John and Stacey Cline, share why they started their composting business in 2020.

The Midnight Company's The Lion in Winter is a Tense, Suspenseful Drama

RFT 📰
2 years 6 months ago
The Midnight Company, and its artistic director, producer, frequent playwright and performer Joe Hanrahan, is quite possibly the busiest theater company in town. The fact the company has managed to add a full-length, full-scale production of The Lion in Winter to its season is remarkable.
Tina Farmer

As migrants arrive, some schools need more buses, books and bilingual teachers

MoInd 📰
2 years 6 months ago

On a pretty fall day in Massachusetts last week, Morad Majjad began work by checking in with a middle school nurse to see if he was needed as a translator. By the time the day was over, Majjad — whose title is family liaison for the West Springfield school district but who is better described […]

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Elaine Povich

Israel and Palestine: No Exit

Prospect
2 years 6 months ago
Today on TAP: Hamas’s murder rampage is one more death blow to Palestinian nationalism, strengthening Israeli hawks. Outside powers (mainly the U.S.) should impose a two-state solution.
Harold Meyerson

Conservation Police, Calhoun Sheriff's Office, Make Arson Arrest In Nebo

Riverbender 🕸
2 years 6 months ago
HARDIN - The Illinois Conservation Police and Calhoun County Sheriff's Office recently worked together on a situation that developed in Nebo in Calhoun County. The report says on October 6, 2023, the Calhoun County Sheriff’s Office received a complaint of a male subject setting fires to various fields on Hillcrest Road, Nebo, Calhoun County. Illinois Conservation Police Officer Jordan Roundcount and Calhoun County Sergeant Zach Hardin responded to the scene. Officer Roundcount arrived on scene first and took a male subject into custody. In addition, the North Calhoun Fire Protection District also responded to the incident and successfully extinguished several fires that had been intentionally set. Subsequent to the investigation, Brandon L Capps, 36, of Jacksonville, Illinois, was charged with the following offenses: Arson Criminal Damage to Property Disorderly Conduct, Warrant - Failure to Appear (Jersey County). Capps was transported to the Greene County Jail where

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Biden condemns Hamas brutality in attack on Israel and calls out rape and torture by militants

FOX 2 📺
2 years 6 months ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden used a Tuesday speech about the 4 -day-old war between Israel and Hamas to condemn the militant group for a shocking multipronged attack on Israel launched from the Gaza Strip that has killed hundreds of civilians, including at least 11 American citizens. Watch his full remarks in the video [...]
The Associated Press via Nexstar Media Wire