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Daily Deal: The Complete 2022 AWS Certification Training Bundle

2 years 8 months ago
The Complete 2022 AWS Certification Training Bundle will help you learn all about AWS while also helping to prepare you to sit 6 certification exams. Courses cover Route53, EC2, S3, CloudFront, Autoscaling, Load Balancing, RDS, RedShift, DynamoDB, EMR, VPC, and more. You’ll also learn about basic security and compliance aspects of AWS, and be able […]
Gretchen Heckmann

Electrical Connection Donates Services to Repair Woman’s Home

2 years 8 months ago
Sparks shooting out of a bedroom wall socket, arcing from the main electrical panel, flickering lights, and exposed light fixtures with hanging wires – all the result of a slick repair sales pitch that made Angela Bryant’s first home a nightmare. Faced with up to $6,000 in electrical repairs to her home in St. Louis’ […]
Dede Hance

U.S. House passes legislation barring sales of strategic reserve oil to China

2 years 8 months ago

U.S. House Republicans wrapped up their first week in the majority Thursday by passing with bipartisan support a bill to prohibit the Energy Department from selling the nation’s stockpile of crude oil to China or affiliated entities. The bill, written by Energy and Commerce Committee Chairwoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers, a Republican from Washington, would prevent releases […]

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Jacob Fischler

Illinois Sheriffs Refuse to Enforce New Gun Law

2 years 8 months ago
In the two days since Illinois' new assault-weapons ban was signed into law, multiple southern Illinois sheriffs have stated publicly they will not be enforcing it. Greene County Sheriff Robert McMillen said that the new law banning the sale of assault weapons is a “clear violation” of the Second Amendment.
Ryan Krull

Public Input Needed on January 18th for Future64, the I-64 Central Corridor Study

2 years 8 months ago
The Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT), in conjunction with the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and its community partners, is hosting a second open house public meeting for Future64 on January 18 between 4:00 and 7:00 p.m. at the COLLAB Workspace in Cortex, 4220 Duncan Avenue third floor, St. Louis, MO 63110. During the meeting, engineers […]
Dede Hance

St. Louis Is One of the Easiest Places to Live Off Minimum Wage, Study Finds

2 years 8 months ago
St. Louis' cost of living is making it one of the most affordable cities in the country, according to a new report. SmartAsset, a financial technology company that frequently publishes studies, found that St. Louis ranks as one of the top cities “where minimum wage goes the furthest.” This really isn’t a product of the St. Louis’ minimum wage though.
Benjamin Simon

We are all waiting restlessly for artificial intelligence

2 years 8 months ago
A new paper in Nature claims that "disruptive" discoveries in science have been on a downward trend over the past few decades. The authors use a measure of disruptiveness that basically measures whether anyone cares about previous work once the disruptive paper has been published: The intuition is that if a paper or patent is ...continue reading "We are all waiting restlessly for artificial intelligence"
Kevin Drum

Biden WSJ Tech Op-ed: More Of The Same Confused Stuff He Said Last Time

2 years 8 months ago
President Biden has a new Congress, specifically with an already dysfunctional House of Representatives likely to explode at a moment’s notice. But he’s still pushing his own slightly confused tech agenda, which is a mix of accurately diagnosing some problems, misdiagnosing others, and being vastly confused about potential solutions for all of them. It’s unfortunate […]
Mike Masnick

Greene County Sheriff Will Not Enforce New Illinois Gun Ban

2 years 8 months ago
CARROLLTON - Greene County Sheriff Rob McMillen said in a letter to Greene County residents that his department will not enforce the newly-passed Illinois law banning certain firearms and magazines, also known as HB 5471. “I, among many others, believe that HB 5471 is in clear violation of the 2nd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution,” McMillen said in the letter. “Therefore, as the custodian of the jail and as your chief law enforcement official of Greene County, neither myself, my deputies, nor my office will be conducting or participating in any investigations or arrests, or assisting any outside agency or agencies in any investigations or arrests, concerning lawful gun owners failing to register their weapons with the State; or any other of the unconstitutional provisions contained in HB 5471. “Furthermore, the Greene County Jail will not house any law-abiding individuals that have been arrested solely with non-compliance of the regulations found in HB

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