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2 years 10 months ago
Atrios has a question for me: How's your self-driving car, Kevin? Yeah, yeah. I'm not giving up on self-driving cars, but it's true that things haven't been going as swimmingly as I'd thought they might. It turns out to be a hard problem! Then again, my old friend Atrios is stuck in Philadelphia. I'm in ...continue reading "OK, sure, but . . ."
Kevin Drum

Outstanding Senior Triple Jumper AmyDee Bachman Is An Altonized Community Federal Credit Union Female Athlete of Month For Birds

2 years 10 months ago
PIASA - AmyDee Bachman just concluded an exceptional track and field career with the Southwestern Piasa Birds girls track and field team at the IHSA State Track and Field Meet in Charleston. AmyDee is an Altonized Community Federal Credit Union Female Athlete of the Month for Southwestern. She recorded a jump of 9.05 meters at state. The Southwestern coaches said AmyDee has excellent leaping ability and has been a very hard worker throughout the season. Often on weekends, she wanted to be out there practicing and in the end, it resulted in her qualifying for the state meet from the sectional. AmyDee set a goal to clear 30 feet in the season and she did with a 9.42 meters jump, a 30-11.5 result in inches. “It was just fun,” she said of the track and field season. “It meant a lot to me to compete at state. "I had not been to state before in high school or middle school and it was fun to be able to do it my last year." AmyDee said other than competing at O'Brien

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Former Prison Advisor says ‘Family’ of Jail Administrators Stifling Reform

2 years 10 months ago
The Reverend Phillip Duvall announced his resignation from the St. Louis County Justice Services Advisory Board today. He cites "the family," a group of managers and rank-and-file corrections officers, for stifling department reform efforts. The advisory board was formed in 2019 as a response to inmate deaths in the county jail.
Ryan Krull

Greenville University Announces Its 2022 Alumni Awardees

2 years 10 months ago
GREENVILLE, Il. – Greenville University and the University’s Alumni Association are pleased to announce the University’s 2022 alumni awardees. The following will receive honors at GU’s Homecoming weekend October 14-15, 2022. Distinguished Alumnus Greg Groves (Class of 1980), longtime youth pastor, church leader, and mentor to countless young people in the Greenville area Outstanding Young Alumna Katie (Rathgeb ’05) Myette, founder and executive director of The Restore Network, an organization working to care for vulnerable children and change the culture of foster care. The Gene A. Kamp Loyalty Award recipients Jack (Class of 1969) and Susan (Bourne ’68) Chism, former and current GU faculty and continuous supporters of the University and GU students The adventure of ministry Greg Groves, youth pastor at the Greenville Free Methodist Church has ministered to youth and their families for over 40 years. He continues to organize and

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10th Circuit Appeals Court Asked To Recognize A First Amendment Right To Record Cops

2 years 10 months ago
It’s 2022 and yet we still haven’t received a nationwide blessing from the country’s top court that recognizes a First Amendment right to record public officials carrying out their public duties. In most cases, this involves cops, whose public activities are far more public than those of most other public servants. For whatever reason, the […]
Tim Cushing

St. Louis Alt-Rock Band Sexdad's New Single is a Total Earworm

2 years 10 months ago
When I first encounter Adam Bautz, front man for alt-rock band sexdad, he's hustling out of his band's practice space wearing a sleeveless orange tank top and baggy sweats. If he looks like a man who's spent too many hours holed up in a cramped room in front of a computer, it's because that's exactly what he has been doing mixing the band's new, still-untitled album, release date uncertain. "I've basically been living here," Bautz tells me as we head up the stairs of Utopia Studios in Shaw.
Ryan Krull

1014 Spruce Street Returns

2 years 10 months ago
After the OPUS Group dropped and sold off the 1014 Spruce plans earlier this year, San Francisco-based Balboa Real Estate Partners picked...
Chris Stritzel