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Puerto Rico to get $60M to prep for future hurricanes, Biden announces

2 years 9 months ago

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden on Monday landed in Ponce, Puerto Rico to survey the damage from Hurricane Fiona and announce $60 million in funding to help the island prepare for future hurricanes. The visit came after the Category 1 hurricane in late September damaged the power grid, leaving millions in Puerto Rico without power. […]

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Ariana Figueroa

The Maplewood Jack-in-the-Box appears to have closed

2 years 9 months ago
MAPLEWOOD, Mo. - A fast-food staple on Manchester Road may have closed its doors for good. The Facebook page for the Maplewood Jack-in-the-Box says the location has permanently closed. The land is owned by Jack-in-the-Box, who built the location in 1970. The corporate website has wiped the location from their directory of restaurants. A sign [...]
Joe Millitzer

New Study Shows That High R&D Costs Don’t Explain High Drug Prices

2 years 9 months ago
For years, defenders of pharma patents loved to claim that the reason that they needed patents and the reason they had to charge extortionate rates for drugs was because of the high cost of R&D for new drugs. The numbers keep going up. When I first started covering pharma patents, the number bandied about was […]
Mike Masnick

State Police Investigate Multiple Expressway Shootings On I-55

2 years 9 months ago
COLLINSVILLE – On October 2, 2022 at approximately 9:55 p.m., Illinois State Police (ISP) District 11 Troopers responded to a reported expressway shooting on Interstate 55 southbound near milepost 5. The victim stated they were traveling southbound on Interstate 55 at the above location and time when someone inside a dark gray or black pickup truck (possible 4-door) fired an unknown number of shots at their vehicle. The victim reported no injuries and the suspect vehicle and occupants have not been located. On September 25, 2022, at approximately 12:16 a.m., ISP District 11 Troopers responded to a reported expressway shooting on Interstate 55 southbound near milepost 6. The victim stated they were shot at by someone in a dark blue or black pickup truck. The victim suffered a gunshot wound to the leg and was treated at a local hospital. The suspect vehicle and occupants have not been located. These shootings occurred in the same area and the suspect vehicle is very similar. Th

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What CRE leaders can do now to track sustainability progress

2 years 9 months ago
With the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) proposed climate rule pending, organizations and property owners alike are considering what they should do now to move closer toward compliance once a final decision is made. No matter what form the final rule takes and regardless of your company’s current carbon reduction strategy, greater oversight is coming in the not-so-distant future. There are strong indicators that market forces are already acting faster than the U.S. regulatory process.…
JLL

Pusha T Shouts Out Fan Who Lost (and Found) Leg at St. Louis Show

2 years 9 months ago
This past weekend, Pusha T's show in St. Louis made headlines for reasons having nothing to do with the Virginia Beach rapper's performance. A little after 5 a.m. the morning after the show, @mitchellbuchn tweeted, "@PUSHA_T i lost my prosthetic leg at your stl show, still had fun tho" Despite the tweet being sent just a little bit after 5 a.m., Pusha T responded in just a matter of minutes. In a quote Tweet, the "If You Know You Know" rapper responded, "We gotta find that man…if you were at the STL show and know where my guy’s prosthetic leg is…pls hand it over."
Ryan Krull

Lunchtime Photo

2 years 9 months ago
I was up all night doing astronomy stuff and forgot to post a lunchtime photo today! In order to restore the proper clockwork of the universe, here's a photo of young French lovers on the Paris metro actually taken around lunchtime. That's a rare thing for lunchtime photos.
Kevin Drum