From The St. Louis American: Last week, the St. Louis Development Corporation (SLDC) announced it had awarded 900 businesses across the city with $5,000 grants, representing a $4.5 million total allocation from the city. The fund was allocated under the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA). “The Small Business Grant Program directly infused much-needed capital into […]
The St. Louis Chapter of the International Facility Management Association (IFMA) will kick off the summer and introduce its new officers and directors at its Summer Social. IFMA St. Louis will celebrate its new officers and directors for the 2023-2024 term at its annual Summer Social. Additionally, the organization will recognize members that have achieved […]
From St. Louis Business Journal: The first residents have moved into St. Louis developer CRG’s apartment complex that occupied the last remaining open site at The Streets of St. Charles mixed-use development, with the project expected to wrap construction on its second phase by July. Chapter at The Streets, at 333 Mulholland Drive in St. […]
The Muny’s 105th season offers a show to satisfy almost every musical taste, and Disney’s Beauty and the Beast is this year’s family friendly, young audience hit. The love story with a lesson features big, bold characters; catchy, upbeat tunes and effective use of stagecraft, particularly with the cleverly extravagant costumes, eliciting lots of positive reactions and applause.
CHICAGO – Today, Governor JB Pritzker was joined by state and local officials as he signed legislation authorizing a new state-based marketplace (SBM) for Illinois, which gives state agencies additional tools to create a more consumer-focused health insurance exchange and better identify traditionally uninsured communities. The Governor also signed historic rate review legislation, which will protect health insurance consumers from unfair rate hikes. The Illinois Department of Insurance (DOI) and the Department of Healthcare and Family Services (DHFS) will work together to implement the new legislation and coordinate with all state medical assistance programs. “As governor, I’ve worked to build a state government that is more efficient and more responsive to what working families need,” said Governor JB Pritzker. “Operating our own healthcare marketplace gives us the dexterity to offer more enrollment windows, coordinate with nonprofit partners who help
Over the weekend, police in St. Louis recovered a number of guns and ammunition magazines from a party being held in what they suspect was a short-term rental property downtown. The St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department say officers responded to a disturbance call relating to party happening in an apartment on the 300 block of North 10th Street. At the party, multiple people were found to be in possession of firearms, including one that had been reported stolen from Des Peres.
Eight federal prosecutors have partnered with the St. Louis Circuit Attorney's Office, a first-of-its-kind arrangement in St. Louis to help prosecute high-profile cases.
ST. LOUIS -- There are a lot of Independence Day celebrations in the St. Louis area. But, only one of them will be set against the backdrop of the Gateway Arch. The big Fair Saint Louis fireworks show will be held on July 4th. It will begin between 9:15 and 9:30 p.m. and should last [...]
"We need to make sure that we’re living within our fiscal limits within the state of Illinois," Pritzker said, defending cuts to an immigrant health care program.
Old and new. The top photo is a picture of a Los Angeles metro tunnel on the Red Line—completely modern and bored smoothly into a circle barely larger than the trains themselves. The bottom photo is a Paris metro tunnel on Line 12. It's old and gigantic, and the stations are so close together you ...continue reading "Lunchtime Photo"
ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons is giving fans an update on the band’s next album and says the late Dusty Hill will be represented on the record. Gibbons tells Classic Rock that the band is “currently reviewing the…
ALTON - There was an elephant in the room of the last Alton Committee of the Whole meeting - in fact, there’s been one since May 24, when Alderwoman Betsy Allen proposed several items to be added to the agenda which were never added. Expressing her frustration with the committee seeming unwilling to discuss any of her proposed items, committee members tried to clear up the confusion Monday night before deciding to discuss the items in future meetings. Allen, her fellow aldermen, Mayor David Goins, and the city attorney attempted to clarify a miscommunication that occurred while the city attorney was away. Someone had asked her whether Allen’s proposed items needed to be added to the agenda. The consensus at the time was that they didn’t need to be added because they were items to be discussed, not voted on. However, Allen specifically stated in her initial letter about the items: “To begin discussion, I am requesting these items be placed on the agenda
Ruth’s Chris Steak House — located downtown on the first floor of the Hyatt Regency at the Arch — has re-opened, following a $1 million investment that will make the restaurant better suited to a post-pandemic landscape, officials said.
St. Louis Alderman Michael Browning on Tuesday sought to reassure businesses and residents after two people were killed and one injured in a shooting near The Grove business district.
Eight assistant U.S. attorneys will soon be working alongside city prosecutors to help prosecute some of the city's most serious cases as St. Louis Circuit Attorney Gabe Gore's administration continues to dig out from the backlog of cases Kim Gardner’s administration left behind.
The group of eight federal prosecutors include some former city prosecutors who worked during Gardner’s administration as well as her predecessor Jennifer Joyce. Some of them also once worked in the St. Louis County…
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