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We're not expecting any significant weather events this week but there may be some lingering rain today.

From St. Louis Post-Dispatch:  The printed snake on the back of Lynn Hines’ International Association of Machinists T-shirt was coiled under big bold letters that warned: “Will strike if provoked.” The shirt was made more than 20 years ago, at a time when District 837 of the IAM was in tough contract talks with Boeing. […]

A consortium led by the founders of Workspace Property Trust has acquired about 8 million square feet across 53 Class A suburban office buildings on 41 separate properties. Here are the St. Louis-area properties included in the deal.

As the pool season ends bring your four-legged fur buddy to splash around on doggie pool day.

A new book written by journalist Richard Kerbaj, detailing the history of the so-called “Five Eyes” surveillance collaboration between the NSA and surveillance agencies in the UK, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand, is revealing a few more postscripts to the Ed Snowden story. Snowden’s first leak appeared nearly a decade ago. Since then, spy agencies […]

From St. Louis Business Journal:  The story of Good Developments Group, the New York-based firm behind a $1.2 billion plan to overhaul part of the St. Louis riverfront, started with an internet auction. While searching for development projects a few years ago, Greg Gleicher, 31, the company’s founder and CEO and a 2013 graduate of Washington University […]

Club Car Wash announced that the company had acquired Express Wash locations in St. Louis. 

From KSDK:  Many residents on Elmore Court hauled the last of their belongings out of their homes in University City on Tuesday. The community is adjacent to a new $211 million retail development center under construction in the area of Interstate 170 and Olive Boulevard. Both sides of the busy intersection will be transformed into a […]

EAST ALTON – Over the next two years, scientists at the National Great Rivers Research and Education Center (NGRREC sm ) are investigating dragonflies and damselflies (Odonata) throughout Central and Southern Illinois. “Odonata are a relatively well-known and charismatic group of insects and have key functional roles both within terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems and across terrestrial-aquatic boundaries,” Wildlife Ecologist John Crawford said. “They are also important indicators of water quality and overall ecosystem health.” The primary goal of this project is to address current knowledge gaps and develop a baseline of population data as well as determine possible species of conservation concern for state and regional agencies. These data are needed to develop future conservation and management plans. “More research is needed to understand current population distributions, rarity, and vulnerabilities of Odonata throughout Illinois,”

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ALTON - From doughnuts to movie themes or just a fun round on the links, Riverbend residents and businesses can support OSF HealthCare Moeller Cancer Center this month by taking part in the OSF Foundation’s annual golf outing. This year’s tournament will be on Friday, September 23, at Spencer T. Olin Community Golf Course in Alton. Lunch and registration begins at 10:30 a.m. followed by a 12 p.m. shotgun start. The event will conclude with a steak and chicken dinner and the announcement of winning golfers. Golfers looking to spice up their round can also sample snacks and have some Caddyshack and Jimmy Buffett-themed fun. On the Duke Bakery hole, the player who lands their ball closest to the pin gets a year’s supply of doughnut holes from the bakery. Proceeds from this year’s golf outing will support programs and services at Moeller Cancer Center on the campus of OSF Saint Anthony’s Health Center . The tournament’s title sponsor is Moeller

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The North County Police Cooperative will hand out free steering wheel clubs Friday from 3 to 6 p.m. to Kia and Hyundai owners at James McGee Park.

EAST ST. LOUIS — Governor JB Pritzker along with state and local leaders today announced the location of a new state-of-the-art Illinois State Police (ISP) Metro East Regional Headquarters and the release of capital funding to begin the design process. The regional multi-mission facility will house ISP patrol, investigations, communications, and Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) resources. Strategically relocating patrol and investigative personnel will increase preventive patrol presence, help solve violent crime, and improve regional safety. “Today, we take a significant step forward in ensuring the safety and opportunity of Metro East reflects what its residents deserve – what all of Illinois deserves: a community where all our families can thrive,” said Governor JB Pritzker. “This state-of-the-art facility will take a holistic approach to violent crime reduction, making the community safer and establishing an anchor for residential and business investment.&rdquo

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GODFREY – Lewis and Clark Community College welcomed about 250 guests to a culminating celebration of the Monticello Sculpture Gardens’ 10 th annual summer garden show, “Budding Masterpieces,” Thursday evening. The event featured free food, drinks, music, garden tours, crafts with The MAC (Macoupin Art Collective) bus, and a chance to play games on the Hatheway Cultural Center lawn with Trailblazers athletes. Guests were invited to take home a cut flower from Rudy’s Flower Truck, of St. Louis, as a souvenir. “Budding Masterpieces” is open to the public for self-guided tours through September. Maps are available at the Campus Safety building at L&C’s north entrance. To learn more about L&C’s Monticello Sculpture Gardens, contact Horticulture Manager Ethan Braasch at ebraasch@lc.edu or visit www.lc.edu/gardens .

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Here's a chart someone linked to on Twitter yesterday. It shows housing prices in various cities: The basic idea here is that if you put up more regulatory barriers to building new housing, the price of housing goes up. I don't really doubt this. How could it be otherwise, in fact? That said, take a ...continue reading "Why is housing more expensive in LA than Riverside?"

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) wrote to U.S. Chair of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Lina Khan, U.S. Chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) Charlotte Burrows, and U.S. Secretary of the Department of Labor (DoL) Martin Walsh to call for a thorough review of how artificial intelligence (AI), algorithms and algorithmic bias might play a role in discriminating against people with disabilities when it comes to employment opportunities and hiring practices. Joining Duckworth in this letter are U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), Michael Bennet (D-CO), Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), and Ed Markey (D-MA). “We write to respectfully request that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), and the Department of Labor (DoL) undergo a thorough review of artificial intelligence (AI), algorithms and algorithmic bias, including but not limited

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The International Photography Hall of Fame and Museum (IPHF) held a juried international photography contest collecting submissions from talented artists from all around the world.

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The photographs in the Silver Seas exhibit are an extraordinary result of an exceptional career. Ernest H. Brooks II, often referred to as the Ansel

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Please join EQ in welcoming our new columnist, Mike Frabrizi, who will be writing about economic complexity and the places we live. His first series of articles reviews the well-articulated and researched paper St. Louis Bioscience Labor Market Analysis (University of Missouri Exceed Extension, December 2021), and extends the good news story and suggest some means by which the former study can be built upon to help ensure that the St. Louis region continues to generate well-paying jobs and that per capita income growth continues. 

This week's series of articles builds extensively on economic complexity literature, that includes important publications such as The Atlas of Economic Complexity (Hausmann, Ricardo; Cesar A. Hidalgo, et al, 2013), Why Information Grows: The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to Economies (Hidalgo, Cesar and Allen Lane, 2015), The Building Blocks of Economic Complexity (Hidalgo, Cesar and Ricardo Haussmann, 2009), How and Why Should We Study Economic Complexity (Esteban Ortiz-Ospina and Diana Beltekian, 2018), The Observatory of Economic Complexity, Economic Complexity Theory and Applications (Hidalgo, Cesar, 2021, Nature).

Norm and Shirley Halcom are celebrating 67 years of marriage. The two were married in 1955. The family gathered on the two's anniversary on September 3, 2022, for a surprise celebration for Norman & Shirley Halcom's 67th wedding anniversary and Shirley's 90th Birthday later this month. They were married in Meadowbrook by the Justice of the Peace on September 03, 1955. Shirley will be 90 on September 29th.

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