GRAFTON - Grafton Police Chief Eric Spanton and Officer Jim Wetzstein were honored by Crime Stoppers at a ceremony in Hardin on Monday evening, October 10, 2022. Each officer was presented with a Lifesaving Award in recognition of their vital role in saving the life of a man who suffered a heart attack on August 25, 2022. “We were in the right place at the right time as part of a coordinated team effort,” Chief Spanton said. The Grafton Officers were instrumental in blocking traffic and providing a police escort to the hospital. The President of Hardin County Crime Stoppers, Terry Woefel, presided over the awards ceremony and recognized several other officers, deputies, and a dispatcher for their roles in helping with this and other lifesaving events. Hardin County Crime Stoppers is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) community organization that makes Hardin county safer. Mayor Mike Morrow and a contingent of Grafton residents attended the ceremony and showed their support and appreciation
From KSDK: St. Louis County Police Chief Kenneth Gregory told his fellow commanders he found out construction was going to get started on two new precinct stations when he turned on the news and saw County Executive Sam Page making the announcement on Sept. 21. The projects have been in the works for more than five […]
EDWARDSVILLE – The Edwardsville Fire Department is hosting its long-running annual open house on Saturday, October 15. The public is invited to attend the event, which will take place from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Public Safety Building, 333 S. Main Street. The open house allows visitors to get an up-close look at the Fire Department’s operations and equipment. A helicopter landing, live fire demonstration, Technical Rescue Team exercise and visits from Sparky, the Fire Dog, also are planned. Free refreshments also will be provided, and kids bicycle helmets will be given away. In addition, Edwardsville Police Department members will display their equipment and be available to answer questions. The City’s police and fire headquarters are both housed at the Public Safety Building, which opened in 2017. The majority of the time, the Fire Department is coming to residents, not the other way around. That’s what makes the open house such a terrific occasion, said Fir
From St. Louis/Southern Illinois Labor Tribune: Four Missouri tradeswomen traveled to London to participate in the 2022 Tradeswomen Building Bridges (TBB) conference to inspire more women in the United Kingdom and internationally to build careers in the construction trades. They were among nearly 50 delegates from North America who represented the diversity of women working […]
From St. Louis Business Journal: The Bass Pro Shops location that’s under construction is getting bigger, even before it opens. The new store in Sunset Hills, originally projected to open in the second half of 2022, will now take up the entire shopping center at 3600 S. Lindbergh Blvd., with the Springfield, Missouri-based outdoor retailer […]
From St. Louis/Southern Illinois Labor Tribune: Plumbers & Pipefitters Local 562 hosted a ribbon cutting at its state-of-the-art training center at 3755 Corporate Trail Drive to mark the official opening of the facility. The training center opened in the summer of 2020 but with COVID-19 restrictions, the official grand opening was delayed until Sept. 22. […]
Adam Wainwright just completed his 17th MLB season. While the 41-year-old hurler proved durable for most of the 2022 campaign, he had hoped for a stronger finish.
From Smart Cities Dive: The U.S. Department of Transportation will need to staff up to manage the IIJA’s many projects, but states and cities also face staffing shortages, the inspector general said. The U.S. Department of Transportation needs to recruit, develop and retain an expanded staff to oversee the implementation of $660 billion in funding […]
From Commercial Observer: The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) is a climate bill by another name, and a historic one at that. The legislation, passed in August and signed into law by President Joe Biden, is designed to reduce the nation’s carbon footprint by jump-starting innovation and adoption of cleaner energy sources. In particular, the legislation […]
With the national reparations movement gaining momentum, Central Baptist Church near downtown St. Louis will host a Reparations Black Party and Teach In at 11 a.m. Saturday October 15, 2022.
Today on TAP: As a close student of the Great Depression, he knew enough to prevent a repeat of it—but forgot the lessons about the need for tougher regulation of the financial system.
GODFREY – Lewis and Clark Community College’s Board of Trustees is seeking a candidate to serve the remainder of a vacant trustee term, to end in April 2023. The vacancy comes after former Board Chair David Heyen’s resignation, effective Oct. 11, 2022. The full Board includes seven trustees and a student trustee, who casts an advisory vote. “Trustees should be knowledgeable about the communities we serve and demonstrate a strong commitment to uphold the college’s mission of educating the people of Lewis and Clark Community College District 536,” said Board Chair Julie Johnson. District residents, age 18 and up, who are interested in serving the college, should submit a Letter of Interest explaining why they want to serve on the Board, along with a biography/resume to board@lc.edu now through Oct. 27, for consideration. Lewis and Clark’s district encompasses parts of seven counties in Illinois, including all of Jersey County, Calhoun
Back in 2015, Yes released a 14-CD box set titled Progeny: Seven Shows from Seventy-Two featuring recordings of seven full concerts from their 1972 North American tour. Now, a 21-LP vinyl…
We’ve written a bunch about how Ed Sheeran recognizes how batshit crazy current copyright law is. One of the most successful recording artists today, you’d think that maybe he’d be a copyright maximalist, and yet copyright just seems to keep getting in the way of his creativity. Sheeran has admitted that piracy made him successful. […]
St. Louis-based Peabody Energy Corp., the nation's largest coal producer, is in discussions with an Australian rival about a possible "combination transaction," the foreign company confirmed Wednesday.
Coronado Global Resources Inc., which operates in the U.S. and Australia, issued a statement confirming that it is "in confidential discussions with Peabody regarding a potential combination transaction."
Coronado added, "However, as no transaction has been agreed and the discussions are ongoing,…
Jon Chait attended this year's National Conservatism Conference in Miami and reports that the American right has gone gaga over Hungary's Viktor Orbán and his brand of semi-fascism: Almost every speaker repeated a version of the following: The “woke” revolution has captured the commanding heights of American education, culture, and even large businesses, from which ...continue reading "Republicans need to look in a mirror more often"
From Gensler: Throughout the pandemic, we have seen more and more property improvement plans, and for good reason: Renovating and refreshing brands with existing assets can sometimes be more palatable for developers and investors than ground-up hotel construction in an unsteady and uncertain market. Over the past few years, hotel developers have shown particular interest […]
From FacilitiesNet: Thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic and the “Great Resignation” that has followed, there has been a mass exodus of workers across all industries. To put it in perspective, in September 2021, the same month federal unemployment insurance benefits ended, 4.4 million U.S. workers quit their jobs. One month later, another 4.2 million employees […]
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