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George Bush Has Been Tossed on the Ash Heap of History

2 years 5 months ago
A Twitter reader reminded me of this righteous rant about the George Bush era from 2011: Republicans got the tax cuts they wanted. They got the financial deregulation they wanted. They got the wars they wanted. They got the unfunded spending increases they wanted. And the results were completely, unrelentingly disastrous. A decade of sluggish ...continue reading "George Bush Has Been Tossed on the Ash Heap of History"
Kevin Drum

Forum Drone Captures Apartments in Cupples District

2 years 5 months ago
This week, Construction Forum drone photographer Louis Kelly, owner of Drone Eagle LLC, captured video footage of a mixed use apartment/retail building near Busch Stadium. 1014 Spruce is a mixed-use development located on an approximately 0.72-acre vacant lot at the southeast corner of Spruce Street and South 11th Street within the historic Cupples Station district […]
Tom Finan

Developers Break Ground on Luxury Mixed-Use Project in Streeterville

2 years 5 months ago
From REJournals:  City officials joined developers recently at an official groundbreaking and rendering reveal for The Saint Grand, Streeterville’s newest mixed-use development. The project is a joint venture between Mavrek Development, GW Properties, Luxury Living, and Double Eagle Development. The 21-story property is being constructed at the corner of Grand Avenue and St Clair. Office […]
Dede Hance

Privacy Advocates Continue To Warn That Modern Toys Are A Privacy Mess

2 years 5 months ago
A decade or so ago there was a wave of warnings by privacy advocates about how modern toys had become major surveillance devices. Makers of voice recognition toys in particular had a nasty habit, researchers warned, of collecting everything your child says, poorly “anonymizing” the data (a meaningless term), then failing to secure that data […]
Karl Bode

Herculaneum P&Z Recommends Approval for Love’s Truck Stop

2 years 5 months ago
From Leader Publications:  After three hours of public comments and discussions, the Herculaneum Planning and Zoning Commission voted Monday to recommend approval of two requests from the Love’s Travel Stops company to build a truck stop west of I-55 and north of McNutt Street and Providence Way. The P&Z Commission advises the Herculaneum Board of […]
Dede Hance

City Condemns, Boards Up Historic Railway Exchange Building

2 years 5 months ago
From St. Louis Business Journal:  The city of St. Louis has condemned and boarded up the historic Railway Exchange building downtown in a bid to encourage its out-of-state owner to maintain the property. After the city was granted an emergency condemnation Jan 4, police officers swept the entire 1.2 million-square-foot building at 615 Olive St. […]
Dede Hance