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They usually split along party lines, but they all hate international scam calls.

The Census Bureau reported today that housing starts dropped 10% in July. But that's a misleading number all by itself. Here it is broken into single-family homes vs. apartment buildings with five or more units: Apartment buildings have been on an upward trend for more than a year and are up 3% since the beginning ...continue reading "Single-family housing starts are plummeting"

From The Edwardsville Intelligencer:  Several area projects, including the Interstate 270 bridge, are part of the Illinois Department of Transportation’s $34.6 billion six-year spending plan for roads, bridges, rail, ports, transit and airports. Announced Friday, the multi-year plan is backed by the state’s 2019 Rebuild Illinois bipartisan infrastructure law which doubled the state’s motor fuel […]

From The Edwardsville Intelligencer:  By the end of this year, parts of the former Edwardsville Public Safety Complex at 400 N. Main St. may be just a memory. The city’s finance and administrative and community service (ACS) committees unanimously voted in favor of a resolution authorizing a tax-increment financing (TIF) redevelopment agreement with 400 North […]

From The Edwardsville Intelligencer:  A 30-page master plan from Edwardsville’s Bicycle and Pedestrian Committee (BPAC) is headed to the full city council for a vote Tuesday. Edwardsville received a Community Planning Grant from the Metro East Park and Recreation District (MEPRD) in 2021 to develop a Bicycle and Pedestrian Master Plan. The planning process for […]

From St. Louis Post Dispatch: From the low-lying stretch of Manchester Road, just east of Brentwood Boulevard, Bob Story has spent 30 years growing Feather-Craft Fly Fishing into an established player in the industry. The company his father started in 1955 now has about 20 employees, a mail-order business with nationwide reach and loyal anglers […]

The campus, which Lindenwood vacated in 2019, will serve as a law-enforcement education center with ties to three different Illinois universities.

From KRMS:  According to a story posted by the Lake Sun Leader, The Lake Ozark Board of Aldermen are being asked to approve an ordinance at Tuesday’s regular meeting that would retain Regional Strategies, LLC to “assist the City’s economic development team and further explore potential interest with local developers, regional developers and national developers and help […]

From Call Newspapers: The Crestwood Board of Aldermen approved a zoning change and preliminary plan for a large mixed use development July 27. The project, located at 8800 Watson Road, was presented by CWD Equity for a zoning change from planned development-commercial to planned development-mixed use. Currently the site is home to Victory Raceway go-karting and […]

From typeinvestigations:  Set on St. Louis’ neglect-scarred north side, 3211 Blair Avenue barely stands out. With shards of rotting wood serving as the only reminder of a front porch, and windows shrouded in graying plywood, it’s one of more than 10,000 vacant buildings in the city.  Some of the city’s skeletal structures have burned-out, caved-in roofs. […]

From St. Louis Business Journal:  Washington University is in the process of demolishing a building along Delmar Boulevard in St. Louis’ Skinker DeBaliviere neighborhood. The city on Aug. 2 issued a demolition permit for the vacant 6030 Delmar Blvd., near the Delmar Loop MetroLink station. Though the property is located in a local historic district, the […]

A Ferguson convenience store targeted during 2014 protests is suing after the city ordered it to stop selling alcohol.

As it does every year, all money raised during the telethon stays right here in St. Louis to help people living with neuromuscular diseases.

One of the most talked-about gas stations and convenience stores in the country is finally headed to Missouri.

Here's our usual start-of-Tuesday post. Gasoline prices were down yet again last week from $4.04 to $3.94: Adjusted for inflation, the price of gasoline is down 23% since its June peak. Hooray for President Biden! Likewise, the price of oil was down a couple of bucks too. As of today, West Texas Intermediate is at ...continue reading "Gasoline prices are down again"

Another big PGA Tour golf event, last hosted in the St. Louis area in 2008, has been scheduled for Bellerive Country Club, officials announced Tuesday. The 2008 event at Bellerive drew an estimated 100,000 golf fans and generated $28 million for the St. Louis region.

When it comes to rocking a mullet, these kids from Missouri are among the best in the country.

City officials so far have approved four housing developments inside the project, which totals 20 separate lots, according to city documents.

ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. - Officers arrived at a marijuana dispensary in Florissant for a burglary Tuesday morning to find a vehicle had gone into the building. Police said the incident happened at approximately 5:13 a.m. in the 11000 block of New Halls Ferry Road. That is where Cookies is located. No one was at [...]