From St. Louis Post-Dispatch: The company that touted plans to remake wine country here is selling another property in its redevelopment vision, causing some area officials to worry the company is further scaling back its ambitious plans. The Florida-based Hoffmann Family of Cos. has listed 10 acres for sale in Warren County near the Washington […]
WASHINGTON — Sen. Markwayne Mullin, an Oklahoma Republican, challenged the head of the Teamsters union to a physical fight at a U.S. Senate hearing Tuesday intended to showcase how labor unions are making families’ lives better. The tense confrontation at the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing stemmed from acrimonious posts on social […]
Earlier this month, The Rolling Stones teased fans with a post sharing the website crossfirehurricane.com. While some were hoping the band was hinting at a tour, there’s no tour news just yet.…
From Reuters: Two years after President Joe Biden signed a $1 trillion infrastructure bill into law, his administration has launched 40,000 projects aimed at rebuilding America, according to his infrastructure czar, Mitch Landrieu. The White House wants Biden to gain maximum credit for the projects to help him in his fight for re-election, with a […]
From St. Louis Business Journal: The delayed effects of interest rate hikes by the Federal Reserve since March 2022 are being felt across St. Louis as developers build fewer projects and say that banks are handing out fewer loans. Developers said banks are becoming more selective about which projects they finance. As a result, they’re […]
EDWARDSVILLE – The City of Edwardsville is mourning the death of longtime Ward 3 Alderwoman Janet Stack, who retired from the City Council in May at the conclusion of her third term in office. She died Monday, November 13, 2023, at the age of 71. “Janet was gracious and kind, a smart yet compassionate representative of the City and an active participant in the business of governing,” said Mayor Art Risavy, who became an alderman the same year as Mrs. Stack, in 2011. “She was dedicated to making sure she represented the residents of her ward well and she also was just a terrific person.” Mrs. Stack is survived by her husband, Phillip; her two children, Nicholas and Melinda; and other family. Visitation and funeral arrangements are being handled by Weber & Rodney Funeral Home in Edwardsville. The visitation is scheduled for 4-7 p.m. Monday, November 20, at Weber & Rodney. The funeral also will be at the funeral home and is scheduled for 11 a.m. Tuesday,
From Construction Dive: Nothing gets built without labor. And labor is growing ever harder to come by. Even as fewer construction workers leave their jobs, whether by their own decisions or through layoffs, openings in the industry shot up in September 15% month-over-month to 431,000 total openings. Those positions need to be filled, and some […]
Missouri shows little progress in cutting rates of new cancer cases, according to the latest American Lung Association report. The ALA also found the state ranked fourth in the nation for lung cancer patients receiving no treatment after diagnosis. Kavahn Mansouri, investigative reporter with the NPR Midwest Newsroom, and Laura Turner, advocacy director for the American Lung Association in Missouri, dig into these statistics and other takeaways from the report.
There’s generally been two reasons the U.S. government hasn’t tried to regulate data brokers or pass even a baseline privacy law, and it’s not, contrary to conventional wisdom, because it’s too hard. One, there’s an army of industries with near-bottomless lobbying budgets opposed to meaningful privacy protections, because empowered consumers would inevitably cost these companies […]
WASHINGTON — Members of a U.S. House committee on Tuesday grilled the head of the General Services Administration over the agency’s recent decision to place the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s new headquarters in Maryland instead of Virginia. “The process — or lack thereof — raises many questions that need to be answered,” the chair of […]
ALTON - Kennedy Smith and his nonprofit Unity in the Community will be hosting a Thanksgiving dinner and several other events as the holiday season approaches. “I rode in on the bus, and just coming through the town of Alton, there are so many people homeless, hungry, and I feel that the community shouldn’t be like that,” Smith said. “It never stops for Unity in the Community. It’s that time of the year that Unity in the Community and a couple of other organizations that I’m partnered with this year, we’re giving back to the community.” From 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 18, 2023, community members are invited to gather at Millennium Temple Church of God in Christ , located at 801 Blair Avenue in Alton, for a community Thanksgiving. Smith will be wearing the apron, and he thanks his wife, Tiffany L. Thomas-Smith, and his brother and community partners for supporting the dinner. He named Alderwoman Rosetta Brown, Mayor David
Some scholars say a little-known, Civil War-era provision in the U.S. Constitution should prohibit former President Donald Trump from appearing on state ballots in next year’s presidential election. But it seems increasingly unlikely that he will be disqualified. Courts in Colorado, Michigan, New Jersey and elsewhere are considering whether Trump engaged in insurrection on Jan. […]
ST. LOUIS -- Police are asking for the public's help to identify suspects wanted in connection with a Cherokee business burglary. They are accused of stealing $20,000 worth of property from Kuts by Kurtis. The items include barber's clippers, clipper blades, and bottles of cologne. The burglary happened in the 2900 block of Cherokee Street [...]
The University of Missouri-St. Louis received a $3.1 million, five-year grant to increase in-school counseling services at the Riverview Gardens School District in north St. Louis County.
Nikki Sixx is opening up about a scary situation he's been dealing with. The Mötley Crüe rocker revealed in a post on Instagram that two stalkers have been targeting him and his family. "Like many other…
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