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Daily Deal: The Python And Django Web Development Bundle

2 years 6 months ago
The Python and Django Web Development Bundle has 7 courses to help you become a web development expert. You’ll start with learning the very basics of Python and Django and move on to building your own apps and sites. It’s on sale for $30. Note: The Techdirt Deals Store is powered and curated by StackCommerce. […]
Gretchen Heckmann

Review: Master Gardener Brings Us Another Tortured Hero

2 years 6 months ago
Although one of the world’s most accomplished filmmakers, with a remarkably deep and surprisingly diverse body of work stretching back 50 years, Paul Schrader has seldom received the adulation lavished on such contemporaries (and past collaborators) as Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, or even the more critically divisive Brian De Palma. Certainly, he’s respected — especially for his screenwriting on such now-canonical films as Scorsese’s Taxi Driver and Raging Bull — but Schrader never quite managed a major commercial breakthrough, with American Gigolo (1980) the long-ago exception, and for most of the past two decades, he’s struggled mightily to find viewers, toiling on an uneven mix of under-seen work-for-hire films and more personal projects that were either mishandled by distributors or mangled by producers.
Cliff Froehlich

Missouri marijuana businesses improve access to banks under bill heading to governor

2 years 6 months ago

Missouri’s marijuana businesses would have fewer obstacles when it comes to accessing banking, under legislation approved Thursday. Few banks nationwide serve cannabis businesses and their owners — or even their auxiliary partners  — because most want nothing to do with a business that sells a product the federal government still considers illegal. That’s true even […]

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Rebecca Rivas

Attorney General Raoul Urges Congress To Appropriatesfunding For Legal Services Coorporation

2 years 6 months ago
CHICAGO - Attorney General Kwame Raoul, as part of a bipartisan coalition of 37 attorneys general, submitted a letter to the U.S. House and U.S. Senate Committees on Appropriations to request robust funding in the fiscal year 2024 budget for the Legal Services Corporation (LSC). The letter highlights the critical work performed by LSC’s grantees across Illinois and the nation. The LSC is a nonprofit legal services organization established by Congress in 1974 to promote equal access to justice for all Americans by funding independent nonprofit legal aid programs across the county. The LSC supports equal access to justice by awarding grants to nonprofit organizations that provide civil legal services to those in need and serves as the nation’s single largest funder of civil legal aid for low-income Americans. “Every resident in Illinois and across the country has the fundamental right to access fair legal representation,” Raoul said. “The Legal Services

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Community Invited To Inaugural State Of Trailblazer Nation Event May 15

2 years 6 months ago
GODFREY – Lewis and Clark Community College is inviting community stakeholders to share in a retrospective and celebration of progress toward its strategic goals during the inaugural State of Trailblazer Nation. Two sessions will be held Monday, May 15, in the Hatheway Cultural Center’s Ann Whitney Olin Theatre – an internal session for faculty and staff members in the morning, followed by a public session at 4:30 p.m. “The future of Lewis and Clark Community College is bright,” said President Ken Trzaska. “We intend to highlight our successes and shine a light on the positive directions the college is moving in. We’d like our community stakeholders to have the opportunity to learn more, share in those successes, and engage with us in this important work.” The college’s strategic plan is a 3-year rolling plan that is refreshed annually. It is grounded in four key directions, each of which comprises a list of measurable aspirations

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Missouri Senate dysfunction leads to gridlock on final day of 2023 legislative session

2 years 6 months ago

The Missouri Senate held itself together longer than most had expected.  But on Friday, hours before the constitutionally mandated adjournment, it went off the rails.  Sen. Bill Eigel, a Weldon Spring Republican running for governor next year, attempted a procedural move to force a vote on personal property tax cut legislation.  Instead, the chamber voted […]

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Jason Hancock

L&C's College For Kids Offers Loads Of Summer Fun

2 years 6 months ago
GODFREY – Lewis and Clark Community College’s Community Education division is helping to keep kids busy this summer with more than 20 week-long College for Kids classes. College for Kids is an academic enrichment program designed to keep young minds active as they engage, connect and learn. This year’s line-up of classes includes the popular Junior Explorers Summer Camp, lead by L&C Adjunct Faculty Member and Lewis and Clark State Historic Site Superintendent Bradley Winn. “The Junior Explorers Summer Camp is absolutely one of our favorite projects we do at the Lewis and Clark State Historic Site,” Winn said. “The camp provides a hands-on perspective about the extraordinary journey of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Our camp activities encourage kids to explore a love of history in a fun and team-building environment, setting them on their way to becoming a full-fledged member of the Corps of Discovery.” The 2023 Summer Camps list is as follows:

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