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The House Special Committee on Education Reform approved a measure that would expand charter schools into St. Charles and St. Louis counties and Columbia.

CHICAGO (AP) — Illinois’ election board on Tuesday kept former President Donald Trump on the state’s primary ballot, a week before the U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments on whether the Republican’s role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol disqualifies him from the presidency. The board’s unanimous ruling comes after its hearing [...]

From The Intelligencer:  The village has undergone substantive changes in the past year: Two sizable retail and mixed-use areas have been carved out of former farmland and a tree nursery to become Meridian Plaza and Orchard Town Center (OTC), respectively. For 2024, Glen Carbon Mayor Bob Marcus expects that kind of growth to continue. According […]

McDonald's is turning this burger chase into a nationwide game. Spot the Burgercuda, scan its code, and you're in for a treat.

From NEXT STL: By Richard Bose:  In September SSM Health officials announced plans for a new Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital at the corner of Grand and Chouteau in the Tiffany neighborhood. It would replace the current facility further south on Grand. They submitted a $300M building permit application last week. They plan to have it […]

GODFREY - The Madison County Highway Department invites community members to share their thoughts on a proposed construction project on Humbert Road that will reduce the number of traffic lanes, create a designated turn lane and add sidewalks. County Engineer Adam Walden explained that the project aims to reduce the number of accidents on Humbert Road. There have been 180 accidents in the past five years, including one fatality. By creating a turn lane and reducing the number of lanes, the Highway Department hopes to “calm traffic.” “We’re trying to serve the public, serve the citizens and ultimately deliver a safe roadway for citizens,” Walden said. “Primarily, people are afraid that traffic’s just not going to work. But that’s why we hired some experts. That’s why we brought CBB on to collect the data, do the modeling and tell us, does it work? And, preliminarily, we think it will.” The County decided to pursue this

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The U.S. Department of Justice is investing Democratic Rep. Cori Bush of St. Louis over the misspending of federal security money, according to a report from Punchbowl.

From NPR:  Minority- and women-owned businesses and contractors won just 17% of the $195 million that St. Louis County spent in contracts between 2017 and 2021, according to an independent report commissioned by the county. Arizona-based Keen Independent Research concluded that 40% of those contracts should have been fulfilled by minority- and women-owned businesses, according […]

Two tractor trailers, one from Michigan and the other from California, died late Monday evening after a collision on a highway in rural Missouri.

by Tom Finan, Executive Director/Co-Founder, Construction Forum Last Thursday (January 25th) a celebration was held at the LiUNA Event Center on South Lindbergh Blvd. to mark the retirement of Ronny Griffin. He retired as president and a business agent with Laborers Local 110 – the 9th largest union local in the St. Louis region. St. […]

From Bloomberg:  Two years ago, a Montana think tank called the Frontier Institute released a new tool to help push the group’s advocacy for pro-housing reforms: a zoning atlas, one of the first of its kind. The atlas used parcel-level data to analyze local regulations that restrict how and where homes can be built, an […]

Casting Announced for MAMMA MIA! Feb. 13-18 at the Fox    Judy Craymer, creator and producer of MAMMA MIA!, the ultimate feel-good show based on the songs of ABBA, is thrilled to announce the cast for the upcoming 25th Anniversary North American Tour coming to St. Louis at the Fabulous Fox Theatre February 13-18. Leading […]

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Cardinals' minor league slugger Moisés Gómez DFA'd, must pass waivers to remain with franchise

From St. Louis Business Journal:  A vacant commercial building once targeted for demolition that has been called “one of the last developable buildings downtown,” could receive city incentives to be converted to an adult day care. The first two floors of the five-story red brick building at 1105 Olive St. would be turned into an […]

From Utility Dive:  Two winters ago, a deadly storm crippled Texas. The ice storm hammered the electric grid, leaving hundreds of thousands of citizens without power, freezing in the cold. In their final report, the Texas Department of Health and Human Services put the death toll at 246. About two-thirds of the deaths were due […]

It is no secret that Senator Lindsey Graham hates Section 230. It’s also no secret that he has no clue how the internet or Section 230 actually work. He’s pushed bills to repeal 230 directly, and he’s pushed bills to repeal 230 indirectly. He does not like Section 230 in a house, or with a […]

Hiring in December was up and quits were down. Hiring outnumbered total separations by 256,000: This is positive news since the general trend has been downward for the past two years.

The Illinois State Board of Elections is split evenly between Democrats and Republicans.