On Tuesday, the Environmental Protection Agency began testing at the Elm Point Wellfield in St. Charles to get to the bottom of who contaminated their well water.
Cameron Mackintosh presents the acclaimed production of Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg’s Tony Award®-winning musical phenomenon, LES MISÉRABLES. This brilliant new staging has taken the world by storm and
From Courier Tribune: Sixty years ago, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote that life’s most persistent and urgent question is: “What are you doing for others?” JD Dixon had a good answer Sunday morning. The Belleville activist and more than a dozen others spread out across the 1800 block of North 39th Street […]
A Twitter reader reminded me of this righteous rant about the George Bush era from 2011: Republicans got the tax cuts they wanted. They got the financial deregulation they wanted. They got the wars they wanted. They got the unfunded spending increases they wanted. And the results were completely, unrelentingly disastrous. A decade of sluggish ...continue reading "George Bush Has Been Tossed on the Ash Heap of History"
This week, Construction Forum drone photographer Louis Kelly, owner of Drone Eagle LLC, captured video footage of a mixed use apartment/retail building near Busch Stadium. 1014 Spruce is a mixed-use development located on an approximately 0.72-acre vacant lot at the southeast corner of Spruce Street and South 11th Street within the historic Cupples Station district […]
TSA announced today that it confiscated a record number of firearms at airport checkpoints in 2022. TSA discovered 6,542 firearms in 2022 compared to 5,972 in 2021. But wait! There were a lot more people flying in 2022 than in 2021. Let's look at firearm confiscations per passenger: So 2022 wasn't really a record, just ...continue reading "TSA Gun Seizures Set a Quasi-Record in 2022"
From REJournals: City officials joined developers recently at an official groundbreaking and rendering reveal for The Saint Grand, Streeterville’s newest mixed-use development. The project is a joint venture between Mavrek Development, GW Properties, Luxury Living, and Double Eagle Development. The 21-story property is being constructed at the corner of Grand Avenue and St Clair. Office […]
A decade or so ago there was a wave of warnings by privacy advocates about how modern toys had become major surveillance devices. Makers of voice recognition toys in particular had a nasty habit, researchers warned, of collecting everything your child says, poorly “anonymizing” the data (a meaningless term), then failing to secure that data […]