Florissant to co-host Big Shark Bicyling Tours through Old Town Mayor Tim Lowery has announce that the City of Florissant will be co-hosting with Big Shark Bicycle Company, USA Cycling and the Missouri Bicycling Racing Association (MOBRA) the 2023 Missouri State Championship Bicycle Races on Saturday, Aug 5 in Old Town. This event will bring […]
ALTON - Too many community-building practitioners cling to the notion that jobs alone build community. But, are jobs enough to attract and retain talent? Workforce training, manufacturing plants, and warehouses are touted as solutions. Creating a day labor center is not community-building. There is more to livability than a job and there is more to community-building than roads, workforce training, and the next Toyota plant. Downstate Illinois continues to bleed population. One side argues the cause is lack of opportunity, while the other sides argues it’s taxes. But maybe, just maybe, downstate Illinois isn’t paying enough attention to livability. Some regions in downstate Illinois have the bones to host the best bedroom communities in the Midwest, if we can recognize and appreciate the connection between community-building and destination-building. Instead of prioritizing blue-collar employment centers and giving handsome tax breaks to encourage large out-of-state
If you’re a Techdirt reader, you’re surely familiar with Cory Doctorow: we’ve written about him often, he’s appeared on the podcast several times and, of course, he’s a prolific science fiction author whose books brilliantly engage with many of the subjects we cover. Next week, if all goes according to plan, Cory will be joining […]
PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD) - A former Maui Jim employee was sentenced to a year in federal prison after pleading guilty to mail fraud and wire fraud. After pleading guilty in March, Erica L. Hornof, of Bradford was ordered by a federal judge sitting in Peoria to pay $125,472.48 in restitution to Maui Jim. While employed [...]
David Lee Roth is channeling Napoleon Dynamite for his latest video. The former Van Halen frontman just posted a video of him dancing to Jamiroquai’s “Canned Heat,” the same song featured in Jon Heder’s climactic dance scene…
The university first purchased the Goodwill buildings in 2019 for development into a "hub to nurture both businesses and individuals as they advance and grow in the St. Louis innovation ecosystem,” the university said in a statement.
An acquaintance of a former St. Louis County chief of staff was charged in connection with the dissemination of a sex tape involving the man and an unidentified woman last year.
Calvin Harris was St. Louis County Executive Sam Page’s chief of staff. The boyfriend of the mother of Harris' child was charged in connection to the incident, allegedly sharing the tape with Page’s political enemy in 2022.
Rodney Leger, 51, of Glen Ellyn, Ill. was charged with three counts of nonconsensual dissemination…
The deal gives gives Nickelodeon the first chance at picking up the studio's major animation projects, while giving the local company the chance be the animator-of-choice for certain Nickelodeon projects.
Elon Musk’s Twitter is apparently really hard up for cash. In addition to not paying rent or other important bills, it is now trying to claw back bills that were paid just prior to Elon getting the keys to Twitter. As you may have heard, last week, Twitter sued Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, well […]
Judas Priest is playing the Power Trip festival in place of Ozzy Osbourne. The news comes a day after the Prince of Darkness announced that he was dropping off the…
A St. Louis County man appeared in federal court Tuesday to be sentenced for possession of tens of thousands of videos and images containing child pornography.
Before The Doors hit it big, they headlined five shows at the Matrix, a small club in San Francisco, and while they weren’t exactly sell-outs, they went on to become popular bootlegs…
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