ST. LOUIS -- St. Louis City SC is partnering with Together Credit Union and the Gateway Region YMCA to launch a new youth program called soccer for our city. It will help teens cover the cost to play in the YMCA'S soccer program. Organizers want more local kids to have access to soccer. "You learn [...]
Tick tock. The Fed's rate hike decision is almost here! Can you feel the tension in the air? POSTSCRIPT: Up a quarter of a point. Idiots. How tight do they think the economy needs to be?
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There are plenty of reasons to be concerned about Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) pretty much unregulated use of surveillance technology. Courts have given considerable leeway to border agencies, reasoning that national security concerns outweigh the countless violations of constitutional rights. The protections the highest court in the land erects are waved away anywhere CBP […]
GREENVILLE - A quintet of classical musicians from Taiwan will perform at Greenville University on Sunday, April 2, as a part of the group’s tour of the United States. The 4 pm concert by the Muen Ensemble will be held in the Whitlock Music Center at the intersection of College Avenue and Elm Street. Since the concert is being performed on Palm Sunday, it will include several Easter songs in addition to classical music numbers. Though the members of the ensemble are Taiwanese natives, they are familiar with the United States since they all earned advanced degrees in musical performance from U.S. universities. The group includes three violinists, one cellist, and one pianist. The leader of the ensemble is Oliver Shon. Brother and sister Greenville College alums and retired music professors, Joe and JoAnn Noble, were instrumental in bringing the ensemble to Greenville. Joe worked with Shon to form the group in 2014 when he was working in Taiwan. The purpose of the group is
PIASA - Southwestern Middle School recognized its PBIS Students of the Month for February. From left to right, front row: Sydney Dwiggins, Knox Miller, and Zaylen Sanford. From left to right back row: Olivia Alward, Ellie Myette, Maci Lloyd, Chloe Holden, and Patrick Buis. They were nominated according to the word of the month. Acceptance. Also, for being Respectful, Responsible, and Safe. They all received a Dairy Queen lunch of their choice.
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SPRINGFIELD - The Illinois Community College System has recorded its largest year-over-year enrollment growth in nearly 15 years. Opening Spring 2023 enrollment increased by 7.2 percent from the previous spring according to the Illinois Community College Board’s (ICCB) Spring 2023 Enrollment Report. “This upward enrollment trend is encouraging and continues to signal a shift towards pre-pandemic levels. This data furthers our confidence that efforts to expand learning opportunities and increase access to a community college education are working,” said ICCB Executive Director Brian Durham. The 2023 Spring Enrollment Report shows the first Spring-to-Spring semester increase in the last five years. It’s also the second largest enrollment increase in nearly 15 years (7.8 percent increase between Spring 2009-2010), and the second consecutive semester of growth for the nation’s third-largest community college system. Significant findings from the Spring
On a Friday afternoon in late December, Geri Curtis received a disturbing phone call informing her she had only five days to find a new home for a developmentally disabled person. As part of her job as public administrator for Livingston County, she had become legal guardian of a person with severe developmental disabilities two months earlier.
Sam Quinones says he knows the solution to the fentanyl crisis. I was eager to hear it, but it turned out to be this: It is hard to believe that two nations that have negotiated complex free-trade agreements cannot come to some deeper collaboration on drugs, upheld across presidential administrations and sustained despite distracting conflicts ...continue reading "Still no answer to the fentanyl crisis"