From Utility Dive: Dive Brief: After watching solar installations decline 16% in 2022, solar industry analysts expect to see a rebound in 2023. But the year ahead is so uncertain that Wood Mackenzie has forecast three potential scenarios. The difference between the three scenarios is relatively small—with a roughly ten percent difference between the baseline scenarios […]
Breathe is a collection of large-scale abstract paintings created through the unconscious combination of bold colors and free movement. Artist Lauren Younge uses acrylics to design irregular patterns that could motivate
From WIRED: In Odessa, Texas, workers at a startup called SolarCycle unload trucks carrying end-of-life photovoltaic panels freshly picked from commercial solar farms across the United States. They separate the panels from the aluminum frames and electrical boxes, then feed them into machines that detach their glass from the laminated materials that have helped generate electricity […]
From The Business Journals: The homeownership gap between Black and white Americans continues to widen, underscoring how a whiplash housing market has disproportionately affected minority households. The National Association of Realtors recently found the homeownership rate of Black Americans has only grown 0.4% in the past decade and is nearly 29 percentage points less than white […]
From Webster-Kirkwood Times: With Des Peres’ only medical marijuana store awaiting approval to sell recreational marijuana, aldermen have elected to conduct a traffic study. Root 66, 12095 Manchester Road, received a conditional use permit in August 2022 to sell medical marijuana. Following passage of Missouri Amendment 3 in November 2022, the facility has since applied to […]
From The Telegraph: The Village of Glen Carbon has selected a new director of community development. Erika Heil will oversee the village’s building and zoning department and economic development initiatives. She brings to the job a wide range of economic development experience, working in Illinois and Missouri on local, state-wide and regional level programs. She will […]
From St. Louis Business Journal: The city of Crestwood is seeking ground-up redevelopment ideas for a shopping center across from the former mall site that is now being redeveloped into retail and single-family houses. Crestwood officials issued a request for proposals last week for the 8.8-acre Crestview Plaza at 9222 Watson Road, a shopping center that was anchored […]
From npr: There is a devastating story that Pascale Sablan sometimes tells when she talks about the experiences that have shaped who she’s become. It starts in a place of joy. In her case, Sablan remembers feeling elated as a teenage freshman at the Pratt Institute School of Architecture back in 2001 — long before she […]
After the largest U.S. bank failure in more than a decade, regional bank stocks plunged on Monday as the federal government — with the 2007-2008 financial crisis still a fresh memory for many — rushed to reassure Americans that the U.S. banking system was stable. President Joe Biden told Americans that the risks taken on by failed banks will […]
DAVENPORT, Iowa — Former President Donald Trump, in his first Iowa stop as an official presidential candidate, took aim at a potential rival, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. Trump said if DeSantis joins the 2024 presidential race, his track record on ethanol and Social Security could cost him the Iowa caucuses. “I don’t think you’re gonna be doing […]
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