From St. Louis Public Radio: As temperatures start to cool in September, it might be easy to forget the scorching heat of just a month before. In middle to late August, parts of the Midwest experienced a streak of “feels like” temperatures of more than 100 degrees Fahrenheit. In one 48-hour period, the Centers Disease […]
From FOX: For businesses looking to establish or expand their footprint in the Midwest, the St. Louis region might be an intriguing location for opportunity. REBusiness Online, a commercial real estate news network, highlights St. Louis in a new report and deems it an “attractive” industrial market for national and regional developers. The report comes […]
From RiverBender: Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s School of Engineering (SOE) celebrated a classroom dedication recognizing the founding chair of the Department of Construction Luke Snell, PE. Snell, a leading lecturer and specialist on concrete, contributed $100,000 to the Department of Construction in the SOE. The dedication ceremony and unveiling took place Wednesday, Sept. 13 in […]
From Construction Dive: The world’s climate is changing more quickly than building codes are being updated, putting lives and structures at risk, according to panelists at the Building Innovation 2023 conference in Washington, D.C., last week. In fact, only about a third of the U.S. is covered by disaster-resistant codes, according to panelist Daniel Bass, […]
“They shy away from going to institutions where their students have to take out loans,” Ronné Turner, Wash U’s vice provost for admissions and financial aid, said.
From The Edwardsville Intelligencer: Eight months after the official groundbreaking for the new Caseyville Elementary School, the new learning facility is approximately 30% complete. As part of Construction Appreciation Week, sponsored in part by the Caseyville Public Library, Caseyville students thanked the construction workers with boxed lunches from Firehouse Subs on Thursday. In addition, many […]
As many as 21 students at Alton High School face disciplinary hearings on their future at the school after a series of fights broke out Aug. 30, causing the campus to go into a soft lockdown.
As has been noted here before, it’s often the worst people that generate the best case law. People staring down the barrel of several years in prison are extremely motivated to find any reason to have the evidence against them dismissed. People not faced with the same reality rarely find a reason to trouble the […]
St. Louis is among the few cities that don't regulate short-term rentals. That’s left the city’s Assessor Michael Dauphin to investigate units to see if they’re being operated as a business, or if they’re being controlled by absentee landlords or LLCs. City legislators are working on a bill that could change how people use platforms like Airbnb and Vrbo. Ward 4 Alderman Bret Narayan adds his insight on the challenge of regulating short-term rentals, and shares updates on the bill’s status.
From St. Louis/Southern Illinois Labor Tribune: The concrete work at the new Florissant Archery Range at Sunset Park here is complete bringing it one step closer to opening to the public. The range is being built by volunteers of the Union Sportsmen’s Alliance and unions belonging to the St. Louis Building & Construction Trades Council. […]
From Webster-Kirkwood Times: Campus and community leaders in Kirkwood are celebrating now that the largest capital reinvestment project since the founding of St. Louis Community College is underway. During a Sept. 8 groundbreaking ceremony on the Meramec campus in Kirkwood, a crowd of students and stakeholders gathered as the college makes way for construction of […]
This week Construction Forum drone videographer Louis Kelly, owner of Drone Eagle, LLC, captures progress on the Siteman Cancer Center outpatient center. Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine are building a new, nine-story facility on the Washington University Medical Campus dedicated solely to outpatient cancer care. The facility will provide a […]
EDWARDSVILLE — Madison County State’s Attorney Tom Haine announced Tuesday that the county’s first detention hearing under the SAFE-T Act resulted in a judge granting prosecutors’ request to detain a Swansea man who faces charges of aggravated stalking. At a hearing Tuesday, the judge granted a petition by Haine’s office for the pretrial detention of Matthew S. Kelly, 34. Prosecutors on Monday charged Kelly with one count of aggravated stalking, a class 3 felony, and one count of criminal damage to property, a class 4 felony. The detention petition argued that aggravated stalking is one of the offenses for which a defendant can be detained while awaiting trial. At the hearing, Assistant State’s Attorney Ryan Kemper argued that the defendant poses an ongoing threat to the victim. Kemper is the Chief of the Warrant Division within the State’s Attorney’s Office, which has been re-tooled with additional staff to coordinate all pretrial detention
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