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A decline of officers in St. Louis raises concerns

2 years 10 months ago
There are mounting concerns about the number of officers leaving the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department. A look at the numbers shows why calls to “defund the police” may soon be a thing of the past.
Andy Banker

France Uses AI To Find Swimming Pools For Tax Purposes

2 years 10 months ago
As humanity marches on towards the expansion of artificial intelligence, we are finding many ways to use this technology while waiting for it to get smart enough to kill us all and bring on the Age of the Robot. Platforms have attempted to solve the impossibility of moderation at scale by employing AI, with no […]
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Senior Captain Owen Terrell Is Byron Carlson Petri & Kalb Male Athlete Of The Month For Father McGivney

2 years 10 months ago
GLEN CARBON – The second home game of his senior year didn’t go as hoped for the captain of the boys' soccer team Owen Terrell. The Griffins lost 6-0 to a very good Triad team, but Terrell knows his team gave it everything they had. “We tried our best and sometimes our best isn’t enough,” he said after the game. He’s the team’s leading goal scorer with three on the season. He had some chances against the Knights but couldn’t convert. He’s just happy to still be captaining his team, win or lose. He had a really great answer when asked what being a captain means to him. “It’s a pretty big responsibility. It’s something that I’ve always wanted to have since my freshman year looking up to my upperclassman. Now that I have it, I know I have some big shoes to fill and it’s just really important that I keep my head, lift my teammates up, and make sure we still have a positive energy on the field.”

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Opportunity Report: Taking the Temperature of the Room for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion

2 years 10 months ago
by Ron Unterreiner, Founder, PEOPLE of Construction Editor’s note: “Opportunity Report” is a regular feature of ConstructForSTL.org — a column by PEOPLE of Construction Founder Ron Unterreiner that we’re calling “Opportunity Report”. Martin Luther King wrote, “The struggle for rights is, at bottom, a struggle for opportunities.” Dr. King noted that it does no good […]
Tom Finan

Dual-Athlete Sami Oller Is Byron Carlson Petri & Kalb Female Athlete Of The Month For the Griffins

2 years 10 months ago
GLEN CARBON – Junior Sami Oller can’t decide which sports season she likes better. In the fall she’s an outside hitter for Father McGivney Catholic High School’s volleyball team and in the winter months, she plays guard in basketball. Right now though, she’s just getting the volleyball season started and is ready for more. “Super excited. We love having the whole school come out and support us,” she said after the team’s home opener in which they won two sets to none against Mulberry Grove. “It feels great when everyone is here and is being loud.” With the win, the team moves back to a positive record of 5-4. Oller is a Byron Carlson Petri & Kalb Female Athlete of the Month for Father McGivney Catholic. It was only their second non-tournament match of the season. After going 3-4 in the Roxana Tournament, the Griffins finished in eighth place out of 16 schools. Not exactly what Sami was hoping for. “I feel like we

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Our victory in the Cold War is still intact

2 years 10 months ago
Jim Geraghty is afraid that maybe we didn't win the Cold War after all. Sure, he says, it seems like we won: And yet… Putin-era Russia doesn’t look all that different from the bad old days of the Soviet Union, particularly this year. The Russian army invaded neighboring territories....horrifying brutality and the deliberate targeting of ...continue reading "Our victory in the Cold War is still intact"
Kevin Drum