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Lock Him Up

2 years 10 months ago
Donald Trump has been indicted for a fourth time. Good.
Prospect Staff

PreSomm Wine Course coming this fall

2 years 10 months ago
Hosted by Mid-American School of Wine at Clayton Winehouse, the eight-week course led by founding member Denise Mueller introduces wine enthusiasts and industry professionals to wines from around the world.
Camryn Kesselring

Scooters Coffee Opens Maryville Location

2 years 10 months ago
MARYVILLE - Scooter’s Coffee, best known for its amazingly fast drive-thru, specialty coffee, and baked-from-scratch pastries, added a new location at 2119 South Center Street, Maryville, Illinois. To celebrate, the drive-thru location will be hosting a Grand Opening on Friday, August 18, where customers can buy one drink to get one free when they pay with the Scooter’s Coffee mobile app. With the app, customers earn three “Smiles” for every dollar spent to collect toward free drinks for their loyalty. To scoot through faster, customers can also link a credit card to the app and select “Pay/Earn Smiles” from the home screen. Then, if they choose to tip, customers can select a custom amount or percentage prior to scanning their app. To scoot through even faster, Mobile Order Ahead is also available. Ordering ahead allows customers to order their favorite drinks and food, pay ahead, and pick up quickly at the drive-thru window. The Scooter’s

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Landscape with Invisible Hand Envisions Alien Invasion as Tech Takeover

2 years 10 months ago
A black-comic story of an alien invasion — or, more exactly, an alien insinuation — Landscape with Invisible Hand can’t be faulted for a lack of ambition. Through its science-fictional funhouse mirror, the film manages to reflect a number of urgent contemporary issues — primarily income inequality, but also the deformation of our behavior by both traditional and social media, the seductively dangerous lure of technology and the falsity of the market’s “invisible hand” ensuring that the common good somehow results from the pursuit of self-interest.
Cliff Froehlich

St. Charles shuts down water treatment plant, citing drop in free ammonia levels

2 years 10 months ago
The city of St. Charles is fully relying on St. Louis for drinking water after it shut down the Elm Point Water Treatment Plant on Sunday. In a Monday announcement, the city said the level of free ammonia in the raw groundwater, which is vital for disinfecting the water, had suddenly dropped for an unidentified reason. The plant has run for 70 years by using the water's naturally occurring ammonia to react with chlorine, which produces mono-chloramines that act as the water distribution system's…
Kelsi Anderson and Brent Solomon