From Labor Tribune: The St. Louis Building Union Diversity (BUD) program has announced its remaining 2023 schedule for its six-week, nationally recognized pre-apprenticeship programs. The mission of the BUD program is to build a more inclusive workforce by increasing construction trade participation among traditionally under-represented groups, including minorities and women. It provides pre-apprentices with the opportunity […]
From Saint Louis Public Radio: The Missouri Department of Transportation is proposing three improvement options along I-64 to make the corridor safer for St. Louisans who walk, bike or take public transit, and less confusing for drivers. Called Future64, the project would improve bridges and interchanges along a three-mile stretch of the interstate. The Transportation Department […]
From MRN: Apartment developments next to single-family homes and villas in O’Fallon continue to be controversial in O’Fallon. Even more controversial is rezoning commercial land to residential, especially currently vacant high-tech corridor district land. Interested parties with varying perspectives either believe plenty of high tech zoned land still exists, or believe the supply is running out. […]
From St. Louis Business Journal: As the process to gain tax incentives from the city of St. Louis moves ahead, the developer behind a redo of the AT&T tower downtown detailed the structure’s disrepair and provided details of market studies that led to a $300 million mixed-use proposal to convert the building from offices to apartments, […]
From Missouri Business Alert: The report by the Illinois-based Citizens Utility Board ranked all 50 states and the District of Columbia for utility reliability, affordability and environmental responsibility using 2020 public data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration, the federal Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Census Bureau. For overall performance across those categories, the top […]
St. Louis County has quietly removed a historical marker noting the date when “the county was first visited by white colonists” — but one of the people who advocated for its removal isn’t happy with how it happened. Geoff Ward, a professor of African and African-American studies at Washington University, believes the county’s quiet removal, without public conversation or publicity, was a missed opportunity: “It was taken down in a way that deprives the community of an opportunity to reflect on the meaning of its removal.” Ward remembers seeing the sign not long after he arrived in St. Louis in 2018 to start his faculty position.
In Cling II: A Carescape, Amy Reidel uses abstract and figurative imagery to illuminate facial expressions, details and patterns, inspired by the poignant emotions shared between family members, the often-disregarded
Over the course of two nights in early December, Gov. Mike Parson hosted a holiday gala for individuals and corporations who donated money to the nonprofit that helps maintain the Missouri Governor’s Mansion. Who were the big donors who cut a check and got to dine with Parson and his taxpayer-funded staff? The Governor’s office […]
St. Louis Metropolitan Police took a 26-year-old Eureka man into custody Friday morning for allegedly causing the death of two people when a stolen car he was driving collided with an SUV. Brian Richard Kelly is facing two counts of felony murder stemming from a crash that occurred November 23 which killed DeVonne Wilson, 53, and her younger sister Ayanna Woods, 42. The two women were in a Chevy Trax near the intersection of Meramec Street and Gravois Avenue in the south city neighborhood of Dutchtown.
We’ve noted a few times how the political push to ban TikTok is a dumb performance designed to do several things, none of which have to do anything with consumer privacy and security. We’ve also noted how college bans of TikTok are a dumb extension of that dumb performance, and don’t accomplish anything of meaningful […]
A 27-year-old man was killed by a driver while crossing Lucas-Hunt Road after exiting a #64 Metrobus around 11 pm last Wednesday night. The driver stayed at the scene and is spinning err cooperating with police investigators. The reportage in the Post Dispatch didn’t have much more detail, so we don’t know if the driver […]
The St. Louis Cardinals have reportedly found their new play-by-play announcer for the upcoming season.
As first reported late Monday by Davis O'Brien with The Athletic, citing multiple industry sources, Chip Caray will join the St. Louis Cardinals as their new play-by-play announcer. Caray will leave his post with Bally Sports South to join the Bally Sports Midwest broadcasting team, according to The Athletic. Neither Bally Sports nor the Cardinals have yet commented on the report.
Chip Caray…
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