New housing starts skyrocketed in May by nearly 300,000 units from April. That's surprisingly good, but it comes on the back of a steady decline over the past year. I sometimes struggle to pick out the best way to show chart data in the most informative possible way, and this was one of those times. ...continue reading "Raw data: Housing starts boomed in May"
The St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department is investigating a series of crimes involving gun violence this week. That includes one burglary that sparked a shooting and two separate overnight shootings that followed.
The St. Louis Area Foodbank announced a $150,000 grant from the Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Foundation, a philanthropic arm of Elevance Health Foundation, to continue the ‘Food as Medicine’ program. This initiative will support St. Louis Area Foodbank as…
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WOOD RIVER - After multiple delays and much discussion, the appointment of members of the Wood River Planning Commission has finally been approved as of the last City Council meeting on June 19 - though the final list of appointees is notably different from the list that was considered previously. The approved list of Planning Commission appointees is as follows: David Watts (new appointment) Steve Erslon (new appointment, replacing Terri Walker) Chairman: Jesse Daniels Ex-Officio: Councilman Bill Dettmers This varies from the previously considered list, which was as follows: Sara Hall (reappointment) Sheila Angel (reappointment) Shelly Fitzgerald (reappointment) Kristen Burns (new appointment, replacing Terri Walker) Chairman: Jesse Daniels Ex-Officio: Councilman Bill Dettmers Mayor Tom Stalcup thanked the individuals who decided to step down from the commission due to new rules implemented by the City Council limiting the number of different committees
On a walk Saturday night, Taylor Sprehe noticed something odd on the sidewalk in front of his house. A baggie full of what looked like small pebbles weighed down two pieces of paper. Sprehe thought it was garbage.
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman really seems to underestimate the kinds of people who sign up to be Reddit mods, and their willingness to go to extreme lengths if you start pushing them. We’ve discussed the nonsensical nature of Huffman’s new API efforts, as well as his stupid response to the subreddit blackout which caused many […]
Though she didn't mention them by name, Congresswoman Cori Bush (D-St. Louis) is so exasperated by Missouri's current two senators, Josh Hawley and Eric Schmitt, that she longs for the days of Roy Blunt. Yesterday Bush told reporters during a Juneteenth event that right now she's "in a tough spot" vis-a-vis working with the two Missourians currently in the Senate. "At least I had Roy Blunt," she said, referring to the two-term senator whose tenure in the Senate overlapped with Bush's in the House of Representatives by two years.
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