The Washington Post is worried that we're all getting lazy: In the first half of 2022, productivity — the measure of how much output in goods and services an employee can produce in an hour — plunged by the sharpest rate on record going back to 1947, according to data from the Bureau of Labor ...continue reading "Are American workers suddenly getting lazy?"
This week Construction Drone Pilot Louis Kelly of Drone Eagle LLC captured progress on the Ameren solar generation facility being constructed in East St. Louis. Construction began in March on the $10.2 million solar energy facility. The 2.5 megawatt East St. Louis Solar Energy Center will produce enough electricity to power 500 homes, while providing […]
SPRINGFIELD, Ill (NEXSTAR) -- Most of Governor Pritzker's messaging on the campaign trail has been about his record -- especially around the state budget. When he took over in 2019, the state was in a crisis. The two-year budget impasse left the state with a gigantic bill backlog, a lowest in the nation credit rating. [...]
In December 2014, the US Supreme Court extended its blessing of pretextual stops to cover imaginary moving violations. Ignorance of the law is the best excuse, cops were told in the Court’s Heien decision. All cops needed to do was make a “reasonable” error when interpreting the laws they enforce and that mistake could be […]
Multi-platinum trio Echosmith — siblings Sydney, Noah, and Graham Sierota —transpose their collective growth into vibrant and vulnerable alternative pop anthems. Their signature songcraft blossoms on the group’s 2022 single
The federal government, not state political leaders, initiated an investigation of the care Freeman Health Services in Joplin provided after a denying a woman an emergency abortion, a Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services spokeswoman said Monday. On Aug. 2, Mylissa Farmer came to the emergency room at Freeman Health after her water broke […]
Farmer criticized Missouri's abortion ban in a campaign ad for Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Trudy Busch Valentine, who is running against Eric Schmitt.
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