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WATCH: Gov. Pritzker announces program to improve roadways in Illinois

2 years 6 months ago
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WMBD) -- Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker announced a multi-year program to improve roadways in Illinois at 9:30 a.m. Friday. The Fiscal Year 2024-29 Proposed Highway and Multimodal Improvement Program is expected to invest more than $40 billion into improving roads, bridges, bike and pedestrian accommodations, railways, airports, and waterways. “Over the next six [...]
Sean Lisitza

Copyright As Harassment: The DMCA Attack On IPFS Gateways

2 years 6 months ago
The Internet is amazing, but it’s not perfect. There are many aspects that are unsatisfactory – its protocols are inefficient, and it is far from resilient. The InterPlanetary File System, created in 2014, aims to address some of these deficiencies. On its main site it is described as: A peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol designed to preserve and grow humanity’s […]
Mike Masnick

St. Louis Mayor Calls Text Message Release an 'Honest Mistake'

2 years 6 months ago
Mayor Tishaura Jones has issued a statement a day after a 135 page PDF of text messages between her, her father Virvus Jones and political advisor Richard Callow were released to the public as part of a public records request. The messages, which ran from January to late May, showed the mayor and her confidants' candid thoughts on many of the issues of those months, including then-Alderman Brandon Bosley pulling a gun on a woman on Facebook live and Sheriff Vernon Betts getting caught on tape berating a deputy with racial slurs. The text messages also showed the mayor talking tough about her political opponents, including Ward 8 Alderwoman and former mayoral candidate Cara Spencer, who Jones said "doesn’t know what the fuck she’s doing as chair of budget," and Ward 12 Alderwoman Sharon Tyus, who Jones hoped would "blow a gasket and pass out."
Ryan Krull

Letter To The Editor: Councilman Responds To Comments At Meeting

2 years 6 months ago
Letter To The Editor: Over the past few years, Wood River City Council meetings have been contentious. However, the last two meetings have devolved with threats to the council and comments, some of which are from non-Wood River residents, that are nothing more than personal smear attacks intended to tarnish council members including negative comments about their immediate family members. I find this behavior deeply offensive and I am extremely disappointed that the Mayor has failed to enforce decorum and gaveled such comments out of order. I have been informed that a former City Council candidate that was recently defeated in the April election has been organizing and promoting these comments on Facebook amongst her supporters. The comments made by some individuals are false and intended to mislead and smear the reputation of myself and other council members. I have known the Mayor for 40 years. He personally endorsed, promoted and campaigned with this woman. That is why I find it

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