From Utility Dive: The U.S. Department of Energy is relaunching a mapping tool designed to help identify areas of the country that are ideal for uses such as wind and solar farms, and has updated it to allow users to specify the type of project they’re siting. The Geospatial Energy Mapper, or GEM, launched in 2013 […]
From Construction Dive: COVID-19 claimed more construction worker lives in its first year than any other cause, according to a data analysis by Silver Spring, Maryland-based CPWR, the Center for Construction Research and Training. Based on first-of-its-kind Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data, the research looked at 2020’s 224,400 construction worker deaths, both on […]
From Leader Publications: After three hours of public comments and discussions, the Herculaneum Planning and Zoning Commission voted Monday to recommend approval of two requests from the Love’s Travel Stops company to build a truck stop west of I-55 and north of McNutt Street and Providence Way. The P&Z Commission advises the Herculaneum Board of Aldermen […]
From St. Louis Public Radio: Cahokia Heights has not yet received the funding promised by state and federal leaders to fix failing infrastructure that causes raw sewage to back up in some residents’ homes and yards and stormwater to flood their streets. Officials have been working to find funding since media coverage and lawsuits starting in 2020 detailed the […]
From the New Yorker: Before Jason Ballard became an entrepreneur, he considered becoming a priest. His speech is still peppered with the idiom of faith—wicked, angels, sacred—and, when he latches on to a subject he cares about, he assumes a rousing, propulsive cadence. These days, the topic he is most evangelical about is our broken […]
From Leader Publications: Jefferson County officials learned last week that they will receive another $7 million-plus to help cover infrastructure costs for the James Hardie Industries manufacturing plant in Crystal City. On Jan. 4, the Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission approved $75 million in grants for projects statewide through the Governor’s Transportation Cost-Share Program, which includes […]
From St. Louis Business Journal: Anheuser-Busch InBev’s new St. Louis training center, which is under construction and on track to open in full by the end of next year, is a showcase of how the brewing giant is evolving its manufacturing systems in a way that’s designed to shave costs from the process. Dubbed the Technical […]
From St. Louis Post-Dispatch: In September 1957, William and Dorothy Cunningham moved their young family from Detroit to St. Louis, and nine months later into a new house in the Paddock Hills subdivision of Florissant, joining thousands of others who moved to north St. Louis County during the postwar housing boom. William, an aerospace engineer, […]
EAST ST. LOUIS – A man originally from Mexico was sentenced to 46 months in federal prison in a U.S. District Court on Wednesday after admitting to possessing hundreds of grams of a controlled substance containing fentanyl with intent to distribute. Luciano Gomezllanos-Martinez, also known as Joaquin Navarez-Urena, pled guilty to possession of more than 400 grams of a controlled substance with intent to distribute and illegal reentry after deportation. In addition to his 46-month sentence, he must pay a $200 fine. According to court documents, Gomezllanos-Martinez was a passenger in a vehicle on Interstate 70 in Madison County when the car was pulled over by the Illinois State Police on Oct. 5, 2021. When officers searched the vehicle, they recovered pills containing 771 grams of fentanyl and 616 grams of heroin. “Even the smallest amount of fentanyl can cause harm to an individual, and carting hundreds of grams through Madison County is a major threat to public safety
Queen is set to launch the second season of their YouTube series Queen The Greatest Live on Friday. The new season, which debuts at 7:00 a.m. ET, will feature 50 videos and will…
From Saint Louis Public Radio: Tower Grove Park revived a stream buried for more than 120 years to reduce flooding in the nearby Shaw neighborhood. The restored stream on the east side of the park now contains rain gardens that capture and redistribute stormwater to prevent flooding. It will also be the site where people in […]
Things are going great in Twitterland, apparently. The company has been facing lawsuits, tech outages, government investigations, bailing partners, not to mention departing users and advertisers. We had noted that 40% of advertising had gone away last month, and this week reporters are noting that an internal Twitter presentation confirms that number, while noting that […]
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