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Big Shark Bicycle Company Opens Fourth Location at City Foundry St. Louis

2 years 6 months ago
Big Shark Bicycle Company opened its fourth business in the St. Louis area at the City Foundry STL on Monday.  Located below the Alamo Drafthouse in a 4,100-square-foot street-level store, the bike retail and repair shop features “a diverse inventory of bikes and products, full-service repairs and professionally trained staff." 
Benjamin Simon

Superintendent Issues Statement About Precautionary Measures Friday At Alton Middle

2 years 6 months ago
ALTON - Alton Schools Superintendent Dr. Kristie Baumgartner today issued a statement about some precautionary measures taken for about 10 minutes at Alton Middle School on Friday, Feb. 17, 2023. "Shortly before 11 Friday morning, we were notified of a disturbance in the community by the Alton Police Department," Alton Schools Superintendent Dr. Kristie Baumgartner said. "The neighborhood this occurred in was near Alton Middle School. Therefore, as a precautionary measure, the school was placed on a very brief lockdown for approximately 10 minutes. "This was only a precautionary measure and law enforcement officials soon gave us immediate approval to resume our normal school operations."

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St. Louis to Spend $500,000 on Vacancy Mitigation

2 years 6 months ago
From Fire Engineering: St. Louis officials hope to better manage the city’s roughly 9,000 vacant buildings and 15,000 empty lots with a new strategy to prioritize buildings for demolition and rehabilitation. The St. Louis Community Development Administration earlier this month published a request for proposals for a citywide vacancy strategy. It contemplates spending as much as $500,000 […]
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Presence as Object

2 years 6 months ago

The seemingly endless possibilities of abstract painting continue to have resonance and relevance to comment on current political climates and contemporary aesthetic discourse. The works in the Presence as Object

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Coloring STL

2 years 6 months ago

St. Louis is a kaleidoscope of architecture, filled with structures of every age, shape, and size. In Coloring STL, Missouri History Museum visitors will interact with these fascinating buildings in

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SLDC Sends Direct Subsidies to Affordable Housing Developers

2 years 6 months ago
From St. Louis Post-Dispatch:  Five low-income housing projects will receive direct grants from the city’s allocation of pandemic aid money. The projects were chosen by the St. Louis Development Corp., which is administering $20 million in American Rescue Plan Act money for affordable housing production. SLDC’s board approved the allocations of between $500,000 and $750,000 Thursday. Some […]
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Bi-State Reveals Possible North County MetroLink Routes

2 years 6 months ago
From St. Louis Post-Dispatch:  The region’s transit agency on Friday released a map revealing four new MetroLink expansion alternatives, all extending from north St. Louis into north St. Louis County. Each route would begin at Natural Bridge Avenue and North Grand Boulevard, the terminus of a planned route that would go to the new National […]
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Twenty High-Paying Jobs That Don’t Require a College Degree

2 years 6 months ago
From The Hill: In his State of the Union address this month, President Biden hailed a new Intel semiconductor project in Ohio that will create 10,000 jobs. “Jobs paying $130,000 a year,” he said, “and many don’t require a college degree.” Can any American hope to earn $130,000 without a college degree? Education pays, as the federal Bureau of […]
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Perspective: Remote Work Kills Company Culture

2 years 6 months ago
From Bob Clark Beyond: The concept of working from home has been a hotly debated topic over the past few years, and some institutions have (falsely) claimed that remote work is the new normal. As someone with a long history of workplace strategy expertise and success, I can say without a doubt that moving from traditional […]
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