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CARLINVILLE — As part of an ongoing effort to address the shortage of qualified early childhood professionals in Illinois, Blackburn College is launching a streamlined pathway to earn a bachelor’s degree in early childhood education. The fully online Current Workforce Early Childhood Degree Program is designed for working early childcare professionals who are seeking additional credentials and to complete a bachelor’s degree in just two years. This new degree is part of a broader effort through participation in the Early Childhood Access Consortium for Equity (ECACE) program to address the shortage of qualified early childhood educators in the state of Illinois. Created through IL Public Act 102-0174, the College will collaborate with other participating consortium members to improve pathways to degrees, credentials, and other licensure endorsements. As a consortium member institution, prospective Blackburn students can apply for scholarships. PELL, MAP and a specially

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Take a load off and take in the views on a relaxing daytime cruise that shows St. Louis from the river that built it. Narrated

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A fleet of high-tech container farms is delivering locally-grown food security to communities from Alaska to Egypt.

My Songs, Sting's Las Vegas residency show at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace, first launched last November and is running this week. Sting just announced that he's expanding the show…

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Missouri’s higher education commissioner is taking a job at Missouri State University.

Mind, Art, Experience: 10 Years of Chess & Culture in Saint Louis celebrates the best chess, art and culture from all 50 exhibitions held at

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Impressionism and Beyond traces the complex and generative encounters of artists with modern life, highlighting the diverse conversations between tradition and innovation, representation and abstraction, and

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St. Louis just can’t stay quiet. The region has produced legends who are on a first-name basis worldwide, like Ike & Tina, Miles, Chuck, and

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Here is the price of Brent crude over the past couple of years. The price of Brent crude dipped at the start of the pandemic and then started recovering. This is far before the Ukraine war. The price mostly recovered by July 2020, which is where I start my chart, and then rose 130% ($60) ...continue reading "Ukraine is not the cause of sky-high gasoline prices"

The Riverfront Times recently won a $25,000 grant from the Lipman Center's Initiative in Reporting on Race and Criminal Justice. The Lipman Center for Journalism and Civil and Human Rights is part of the Columbia Journalism School and runs several programs to help journalists and newsrooms investigate law enforcement, incarceration, human rights abuses and more. The Initiative in Reporting on Race and Criminal Justice provides local newsrooms and reporters financial assistance to tackle a six-month investigative project that "illuminates the inequalities and what has gone wrong in the American criminal justice system."

I Love Soulard Market I love to write about it’s stalls stashed with fresh fruit and vegetables. To photograph the colorful produce and engage in small talk with vendors. I love to chit-chat with total strangers about what they’re buying and how they plan to cook it. So when Lucy was in town and said... 

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"Our heart is in it. We want to build something pretty special here in Collinsville."

The Rolling Stones have now postponed a second show following frontman Mick Jagger's positive COVID-19 test. After calling off their show in Amsterdam Monday, the band has announced on their…

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A growing number of Maritz employees working from home even ahead of the pandemic meant that the company didn’t need as many office buildings.

On average, fares for the rest of June through Aug. 31 are 94% higher than 2021 levels and 66% higher than 2019 levels, according to Hopper data.

Usually when people start whining about the propaganda dumpster fire that is Fox News, several things predictably happen. First, somebody with no idea how any of this works will yell out something about how the FCC should ban Fox from doing this (which is unconstitutional), or restore the mythologized Fairness Doctrine (which wouldn’t have applied […]

The article of the moment in progressive circles is Monday's Ryan Grim piece in the Intercept that's subtitled, "Meltdowns have brought progressive advocacy groups to a standstill at a critical moment in world history." Quite so. The only surprising thing about Grim's account is that it took so long for someone on the left to ...continue reading "What’s wrong with progressive organizations? Just about everything."

Fodor's Travel lists Central Library as No. 6 among 11 "most beautiful libraries," edging out the "architectural marvel" in Kansas City.