Listen to an episode about William Taussig on our Here’s History podcast with KDHX. Some of the biggest stories in St. Louis history—the 1849 cholera epidemic, the Eads Bridge and tunnel, the Civil War, the building of Union Station, and more—involve a man named Dr. William Taussig. Though his name may be unfamiliar to most, Taussig is …
The City of East St. Louis, along with the National Pan-Hellenic Council, made sure to give children and the community a fun place to trick-or-treat and enjoy Halloween.
The Washington Post is worried that we're all getting lazy: In the first half of 2022, productivity — the measure of how much output in goods and services an employee can produce in an hour — plunged by the sharpest rate on record going back to 1947, according to data from the Bureau of Labor ...continue reading "Are American workers suddenly getting lazy?"
This week Construction Drone Pilot Louis Kelly of Drone Eagle LLC captured progress on the Ameren solar generation facility being constructed in East St. Louis. Construction began in March on the $10.2 million solar energy facility. The 2.5 megawatt East St. Louis Solar Energy Center will produce enough electricity to power 500 homes, while providing […]
SPRINGFIELD, Ill (NEXSTAR) -- Most of Governor Pritzker's messaging on the campaign trail has been about his record -- especially around the state budget. When he took over in 2019, the state was in a crisis. The two-year budget impasse left the state with a gigantic bill backlog, a lowest in the nation credit rating. [...]
In December 2014, the US Supreme Court extended its blessing of pretextual stops to cover imaginary moving violations. Ignorance of the law is the best excuse, cops were told in the Court’s Heien decision. All cops needed to do was make a “reasonable” error when interpreting the laws they enforce and that mistake could be […]
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