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Development Planning Bait and Switch

2 years 10 months ago

You and your neighbors care deeply about your place. There’s a planning process to shape what could come for your place over the next decades. You all attend the meetings, the charrettes, read the draft documents, mark up the posters, affix the Post-It notes, talk with your neighbors, your neighborhood association, the consultant, city staff, […]

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Richard Bose

Salute to Excellence: Bruce M. Gant!

2 years 10 months ago
Brian M. Gant, a Cybersecurity Assistant Professor at Maryville University, will be honored by The St. Louis American Foundation as an "Excellence in Education" awardee at the 2021 Salute to Excellence in Education Scholarship & Awards Virtual Gala on Nov.…

Boom of Gunshots Interrupts Press Conference on Gun Violence in St. Louis

2 years 10 months ago

St. Louisans often joke about whether a loud boom is "gunshots or fireworks," but there was little guesswork needed to identify the sounds that interrupted St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones on Friday at a press conference as she spoke about gun violence.

Held in Dutchtown, the press conference featured Jones and Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas.…
Danny Wicentowski

Osage Nation planning casino, hotel for Missouri’s Lake of the Ozarks

2 years 10 months ago

The Native American tribe that gave its name to the Osage River wants to bring casino gambling to the Lake of the Ozarks, the biggest tourist draw on that river. The Osage Nation Indian Tribe on Friday announced in a news release that it will invest approximately $60 million to develop a hotel featuring gambling, […]

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Rudi Keller

Suit challenges downtown tax district's renewal

2 years 10 months ago
A lawsuit filed Friday challenges the renewal process for downtown St. Louis' taxing district, which collects millions of dollars a year for secondary safety and beautification services. Leaders of the entity, called the Downtown St. Louis Community Improvement District, said Oct. 21 that they had filed a petition to renew for 20 years, after being set to expire Dec. 31.  Efforts to renew it, which included gathering signatures from a certain number of property owners, began in 2019, though it…
Jacob Kirn