Join Dan Fuller, Event and Volunteer Coordinator at Bellefontaine Cemetery and Arboretum, for a public presentation off-site. Beyond the Gates: African Americans at Bellefontaine Founded in 1849, Bellefontaine
A Missouri vintner and entrepreneur was one of 13 individuals chosen to receive the 2023 award from the Horatio Alger Association, a nonprofit membership-based educational organization that has provided more than $245 million in student scholarships since 1984.
The first federal student aid program in the United States, the National Defense Education Act, was signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1958 — six years before the Civil Rights Act federally ended “Jim Crow'' laws across the nation. The Higher Education Act of 1965, signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson, followed the Civil Rights Act, and while codified into law, American citizens and lawmakers still struggled with equality. Nick Hillman, professor in the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, shares his theories on the slow progress to update federal student aid and provide relief to student loan debt.
by Jeremy Bennett, SITE Improvement Association The $2.3 trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) passed by Congress last October promises $621 billion in new transportation infrastructure construction work and $689 billion for buildings and utilities projects for contractors across the country. While the exact amount coming to Missouri may not be known for at […]
Every amicus brief the Copia Institute has filed has been important. But the brief filed today is one where all the marbles are at stake. Up before the Supreme Court is Gonzalez v. Google, a case that puts Section 230 squarely in the sights of the Court, including its justices who have previously expressed serious […]
A longtime athlete has been selected to represent Special Olympics Missouri and Special Olympics USA at the Special Olympics World Games Berlin 2023, according to a release from SOMO.
Graham Nash has shared a heartfelt tribute to his Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young bandmate David Crosby, who passed away Thursday at the age of 81. “It is with a deep and profound sadness that I…
Katie Rodas-Santizo, a local eighth grader at Marian Middle School, will defend her school’s championship title in this year’s Clavicus Project Jamboree — a yearly robotics competition that challenges the STEM skills of middle school students in St. Louis. Robotics Coach Mark Viox and Marian Middle School Interim Principal Sierhah Price share how they encourage a love of STEM in young girls like Rodas-Santizo.
Gray Design Group, named one of the Midwest Top Design Firms by Engineering News-Record, welcomes Brie Ray (project associate) to their architecture studio and Joe Kohnen (senior graphic designer) to their Branding + Graphic Design studio. A recent graduate from the University of Missouri – Columbia, Brie utilizes her strong organizational skills and […]
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