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Families line up hours before St. Louis food giveaway

2 years 9 months ago
BRIDGETON, Mo. -- SSM Health Depaul Hospital hosts a food distribution event to help families in need. They partnered with the St. Louis Area Food Bank to make this happen and gave away a variety of items, including meat, potatoes, apples, and snacks. The response was overwhelming. Cars started lining up as early as 5 [...]
Laura Simon

Pere Marquette Welcomes New Natural Resource Coordinator

2 years 9 months ago
GRAFTON - Pere Marquette State Park has renewed their outreach efforts with the help of Lev Smolianski, the new natural resource coordinator. Smolianski explained that there are several programs in the works for anyone who is interested in learning about Pere Marquette and the ecosystem it supports. Whether he teaches at schools or at the park, he loves watching people become more passionate about the environment as they learn about it. “When you bring these kinds of programs and lessons to folks, people become connected to their land. It changes the way they view the world,” Smolianski said. “I believe through this kind of work, people become better stewards of their environment. My ultimate goal is to create an ideal of conservation in the folks that I interact with, to preserve for future generations and to create sustainable, long term management of our natural resources.” To do this, Smolianski is upping Pere Marquette’s programming and amplifying

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Josh Hawley Back To Try To Hotline His Awful AI/Section 230 Bill

2 years 9 months ago
Last week, we wrote about the potential for Senator Josh Hawley to “hotline” the bill that he put together with Senator Richard Blumenthal to remove Section 230 from anything touching artificial intelligence. As we noted at the time, even if you hate both generative AI technology and Section 230, the bill was so poorly drafted […]
Mike Masnick

Daily Deal: TexTalky AI Text-to-Speech

2 years 9 months ago
Turn any text or script into a lifelike natural human voice in easy 3 steps using Textalky, a powerful AI text-to-speech synthesizer. No robotic voices. TexTalky uses the latest cloud-based AI technology powered by Google, IBM, Microsoft, and Amazon. It covers more than 140 international languages and dialects, and over 900 kinds of lifelike human […]
Gretchen Heckmann

Meadows Renovations are Nearly Complete

2 years 9 months ago
From Mid Rivers Newsmagazine:  From 2019 through mid-2023, Mid Rivers Newsmagazine published several articles about The Meadows, its infrastructure, its stores and restaurants, and new apartments being built in the area that are bringing in more customers. Lake Saint Louis leaders and residents viewed The Meadows as “the new downtown” of the city. They still […]
Kacey Crawley

Delays To Des Peres City Hall Renovations Result In Cost Overruns

2 years 9 months ago
From Webster-Kirkwood Times:  Indecisiveness on the part of the Des Peres Board of Aldermen has resulted in the city hall renovation project possibly being delayed, and a parking lot not to be reconfigured. Des Peres Public Works Director Steve Meyer suggested in March that a new parking lot be built on the north side of […]
Kacey Crawley

The Climate Crisis Is Also a Well-Being Crisis

2 years 9 months ago
From Gensler:  Every aspect of our lives at every scale is colored by well-being. As individuals and organizations everywhere work to build an improved quality of life in the face of accelerating climate change, it is essential that we recognize the role of the physical environments where we live, work, and play on global well-being. The […]
Kacey Crawley

Submissions Open for Construction Site Holiday Lights Contest

2 years 9 months ago
From Construction Dive:  The holidays are upon us, and the season’s cheer is spreading everywhere from the home to the workplace. It’s once again time for Construction Dive’s annual Holiday Lights contest and we ask contractors to join in the festive competition. (See last year’s winners here.) Construction Dive wants to see the lights that […]
Kacey Crawley

$278M Overhaul of I-270 in North St. Louis County Almost Done

2 years 9 months ago
From St. Louis Post-Dispatch:  After more than three years of construction work, the long-awaited overhaul of a heavily traveled stretch of Interstate 270 in North County is just about finished. Gov. Mike Parson and other speakers are scheduled to join Missouri Department of Transportation officials at a ribbon-cutting event Tuesday morning in Hazelwood to celebrate […]
Kacey Crawley

Does The Workforce Actually Want AI Tools?

2 years 9 months ago
From Work Design Magazine:  Over half of the employees in a recent study have stated that they use generative AI for complex tasks in day-to-day work, but employers remain more hesitant to officially adopt the technology. This article was originally published on Allwork.space . The introduction of ChatGPT and other generative AI tools to the […]
Kacey Crawley

Deadline Near on Educational Scholarships Available for Survivors of Brain Trauma

2 years 9 months ago
The Brain Injury Association of Missouri (BIA-MO) is offering educational scholarships for survivors of brain injury to pursue post-secondary education. The deadline for applications is December 15.  Apply online or download the application. Mail applications to: Brain Injury Association of Missouri, Inc. 2265 Schuetz Road Saint Louis, MO 63146-3409 For information email: info@biamo.org All BIA-MO Educational […]
Tom Finan