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Construction Project Plans Can Now Be Filed Electronically

2 years 7 months ago
From Saint Louis County Missouri: Beginning today, all construction plans for both residential and commercial projects can be submitted online using the new Citizen Permitting Portal. Until now, printed plans could only be dropped off in Clayton to be reviewed by the Public Works Department, which costs applicants thousands of dollars per project. Then Code Enforcement employees […]
Shruthi Beedu

Chouteau’s Landing Riverfront Development Plan Advances

2 years 7 months ago
From St. Louis business Journal: The developer behind the $1.2 billion construction innovation district and mixed-use development proposed on the downtown St. Louis riverfront will move forward with an initial 12-acre phase, after securing master development rights Thursday from a city board. As proposed by New York-based developer Good Developments Group, the Gateway South project will […]
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Regulation, Productivity and the Meaning of Life

2 years 7 months ago
From The New York Times: A few days ago The Times published a very interesting column by my colleague Ezra Klein about America’s peculiar lack of progress in the art of building things. Drawing on a recent paper by Austan Goolsbee and Chad Syverson, he noted that at least according to official statistics, we’ve gone a half century without […]
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Ears to Hear and Eyes to See

2 years 7 months ago
From Beyond Housing: For the last several months, I have been preaching from the book of regional self-interest about the need to invest in our collective future. I firmly believe in the truth that our region is only as strong as the communities within it, and that if we are going to change the trajectory of […]
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Mackey Mitchell New Hires and Promotions

2 years 7 months ago
From Mackey Mitchell Architects:  Mackey Mitchell Architects celebrated a 2022 filled with change, growth, and momentum at The Leona in St. Louis in December. Over delicious food and drinks, the hours seemed to fly by talking to new and old colleagues, and watching our cheery and at times uproarious presentation featuring highlights from the past year […]
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Because The U.S. Is Too Corrupt To Pass Privacy Legislation, Data Brokers Increasingly Traffic In Sensitive Mental Health Data

2 years 7 months ago
We’ve noted for a long while that the performative hysteria surrounding TikTok is basically a giant distraction from our failures on consumer protection and privacy legislation. Case in point: the growing number of mental health apps that routinely collect and monetize sensitive consumer mental health data, yet fail to meaningfully protect the data they collect. […]
Karl Bode

St. Louis Cardinals, John Mozeliak agree to 2-year contract extension

2 years 7 months ago
John Mozeliak will remain with the St. Louis Cardinals for at least two more years after he and the team agreed to a contract extension. Mozeliak will remain with the team through 2025. “Over the next few years, we will focus on succession planning throughout baseball operations as well as work tirelessly to put a successful product on the field,” Mozeliak said in a news release. “I am very pleased that Mo has agreed to continue heading up our Baseball Operations for the next three years,"…
Sam Clancy, KSDK