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According to Britts, there are approximately 100,000 individuals in the United States living with sickle cell disease (SCD) and another 2.5 million living with it.

In FY22, the budget authority for federal discretionary spending was $1.788 trillion. Actual discretionary spending came in at $1.664 trillion. But the House Freedom Caucus has long been stuck on a figure of $1.471 trillion as "real" FY22 spending, and they want the budget for next year (FY24) to match that. This makes no sense ...continue reading "That weird Freedom Caucus spending number explained (maybe)"

From St. Louis Public Radio:  St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones is calling on regional leaders to expand their efforts to help people experiencing homelessness. Jones said the city is shouldering much of the burden to provide temporary housing to people from across the region. She said the city’s investment in a tiny home village in […]

When Seafood City closed, and turned off its electricity, no one took the frozen fish out of the freezers.

From Call Newspapers:  According to the agenda for the St. County Planning Commission’s Sept. 18 meeting, the restaurant is proposing a new location at 6303 S. Lindbergh Blvd., at the corner of Lindbergh and Concord Road. Real Estate Partners X, LLC is requesting amended C-8 zoning for all C-3 Shopping District permitted uses, including a […]

From St. Louis Business Journal:  The U.S. construction market is starting to shift in the wake of less work from the private sector and ramped-up spending in industries like infrastructure and manufacturing, bolstered by federal incentives. And while supply-chain issues and higher materials prices have normalized since the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic, inflation, higher […]

From Construction Dive:  Technology has definitely played a role in preconstruction’s increased prominence in the overall build process today. But many experts see behavioral and process swings spurred by the pandemic at the root of systemic change for the industry. “Of course I wish there was a tool that can get us all to where […]

CHICAGO — Dozens of counterfeit designer products with a suggested retail price of over $1 million were seized by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) at O’Hare's International Mail Branch in Chicago. According to CBP, officers seized the shipment, which contained 67 pieces of counterfeit designer watches, bracelets, handbags and scarves as it was headed [...]

PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD) - A Peoria fire captain told a Peoria County jury that he and his partner had to do a "double take" when they found a woman's body in a fully engulfed house on Peoria's East bluff nearly two years ago. Capt. Frank Bivert, a 25-year veteran of the department, said he was [...]

Attorneys and advocates from Legal Services of Eastern Missouri (LSEM) are partnering with the St. Louis Public Library to hold clinic hours at Central Library from 9 a.m. to noon on the third Thursday of each month.

Celebrate the 150th birthday of Sergei Rachmaninoff with WCHOF Music Director Brian Woods and cellist Bjorn Ranheim! Featuring some of the composer's most virtuosic and passionate music, the duo will […]

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From St. Louis Public Radio:  As temperatures start to cool in September, it might be easy to forget the scorching heat of just a month before. In middle to late August, parts of the Midwest experienced a streak of “feels like” temperatures of more than 100 degrees Fahrenheit. In one 48-hour period, the Centers Disease […]

From FOX:  For businesses looking to establish or expand their footprint in the Midwest, the St. Louis region might be an intriguing location for opportunity. REBusiness Online, a commercial real estate news network, highlights St. Louis in a new report and deems it an “attractive” industrial market for national and regional developers. The report comes […]

From RiverBender:  Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s School of Engineering (SOE) celebrated a classroom dedication recognizing the founding chair of the Department of Construction Luke Snell, PE. Snell, a leading lecturer and specialist on concrete, contributed $100,000 to the Department of Construction in the SOE. The dedication ceremony and unveiling took place Wednesday, Sept. 13 in […]

From Construction Dive:  The world’s climate is changing more quickly than building codes are being updated, putting lives and structures at risk, according to panelists at the Building Innovation 2023 conference in Washington, D.C., last week. In fact, only about a third of the U.S. is covered by disaster-resistant codes, according to panelist Daniel Bass, […]

“They shy away from going to institutions where their students have to take out loans,” Ronné Turner, Wash U’s vice provost for admissions and financial aid, said.