From Riverbender: Shannon Stelling with the Home Builders & Remodelers Metro-East Association recently emphasized the importance of the trades, highlighted this month’s Trade Student of the Month, and discussed the upcoming 2024 Home Expo as it gets closer from March 8-10, 2024 at the Belle Clair Fairgrounds in Belleville. In addition to thousands of dollars […]
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From St. Louis Post-Dispatch: The cost of building a new MetroLink line from south St. Louis to the city’s north side is now pegged at about $1.1 billion. The new estimate provided by the Bi-State Development Agency is part of a report submitted Wednesday to the regional East-West Gateway Council of Governments. However, Taulby Roach, […]
From NPR: In its bid to acquire a portion of the approximately $1 billion in federal funding for a planned north-south light rail route for the St. Louis region, Metro Transit will have to compete with dozens of other proposals nationwide, officials said Wednesday at a meeting convened by the advocacy organization Citizens for Modern […]
From Construction Business Owner: Despite market-cooling uncertainties like volatile material prices, labor shortages and high interest rates, the engineering and construction (E&C) industry is poised for growth in 2024. Sustainable practices and technological advancements combined with recent government legislation are likely to boost construction activity, according to Deloitte’s 2024 engineering and construction industry outlook. The […]
Alice Cooper’s sixth studio album, Billion Dollar Babies, celebrated its 50th anniversary in 1973, and now, the milestone is being marked with a new deluxe reissue. A newly remastered version of the album…
St. Louis needs to subject the area around the new National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency headquarters to eminent domain in order to provide the tools needed to realize the neighborhood's vision, the leader of the city's development agency said Tuesday.
“These are political opinions under the guise of an audit report that are being put forth by an agency that doesn't even understand the issues," Ashcroft said.
PIASA - Cason Robinson is a freshman who is already having an impact in the varsity boys' basketball ranks. Southwestern has a boisterous student fan backing and often when he scores they chant to the opponents: "He is a freshman." Anyone studying Cason on the court can see he has a love of basketball. Cason is an Altonized Community Federal Credit Union Male Athlete of the Month. The Piasa Birds' head boys basketball coach Jason Darr believes Cason has unbelievable potential for the future and is glad to see the freshman logging so much varsity time on the court in the 2023-2024 campaign. "Cason doesn't play like a freshman," Coach Darr said. "He is super aggressive and you don't see that a lot out of kid that age. I coached all three of his brothers. There has been a Robinson in the boys' basketball program every year for close to the last 14 years. They are a good family and were all great kids and very coachable." Cason has a great eye for basketball and will likely sink man