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Missourians Attend Tradeswomen Building Bridges Delegation in London

3 years 1 month ago
From St. Louis/Southern Illinois Labor Tribune:  Four Missouri tradeswomen traveled to London to participate in the 2022 Tradeswomen Building Bridges (TBB) conference to inspire more women in the United Kingdom and internationally to build careers in the construction trades. They were among nearly 50 delegates from North America who represented the diversity of women working […]
Shruthi Beedu

Plumbers & Pipefitters Local 562 Officially Dedicates New Training Center

3 years 1 month ago
From St. Louis/Southern Illinois Labor Tribune: Plumbers & Pipefitters Local 562 hosted a ribbon cutting at its state-of-the-art training center at 3755 Corporate Trail Drive to mark the official opening of the facility. The training center opened in the summer of 2020 but with COVID-19 restrictions, the official grand opening was delayed until Sept. 22. […]
Shruthi Beedu

Rising Prices, Labor Shortages Threaten Infrastructure Law Implementation

3 years 1 month ago
From Smart Cities Dive:  The U.S. Department of Transportation will need to staff up to manage the IIJA’s many projects, but states and cities also face staffing shortages, the inspector general said. The U.S. Department of Transportation needs to recruit, develop and retain an expanded staff to oversee the implementation of $660 billion in funding […]
Shruthi Beedu

Inflation Reduction Act: What’s In It for Commercial Real Estate?

3 years 1 month ago
From Commercial Observer:  The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) is a climate bill by another name, and a historic one at that. The legislation, passed in August and signed into law by President Joe Biden, is designed to reduce the nation’s carbon footprint by jump-starting innovation and adoption of cleaner energy sources. In particular, the legislation […]
Shruthi Beedu

Bernanke’s Odd Nobel Prize

3 years 1 month ago
Today on TAP: As a close student of the Great Depression, he knew enough to prevent a repeat of it—but forgot the lessons about the need for tougher regulation of the financial system.
Robert Kuttner

L&C Board Seeks Trustee to Fill Vacancy  

3 years 1 month ago
GODFREY – Lewis and Clark Community College’s Board of Trustees is seeking a candidate to serve the remainder of a vacant trustee term, to end in April 2023. The vacancy comes after former Board Chair David Heyen’s resignation, effective Oct. 11, 2022. The full Board includes seven trustees and a student trustee, who casts an advisory vote. “Trustees should be knowledgeable about the communities we serve and demonstrate a strong commitment to uphold the college’s mission of educating the people of Lewis and Clark Community College District 536,” said Board Chair Julie Johnson. District residents, age 18 and up, who are interested in serving the college, should submit a Letter of Interest explaining why they want to serve on the Board, along with a biography/resume to board@lc.edu now through Oct. 27, for consideration. Lewis and Clark’s district encompasses parts of seven counties in Illinois, including all of Jersey County, Calhoun

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Ed Sheeran Just Can’t Get Away From Ridiculous Copyright Lawsuits

3 years 1 month ago
We’ve written a bunch about how Ed Sheeran recognizes how batshit crazy current copyright law is. One of the most successful recording artists today, you’d think that maybe he’d be a copyright maximalist, and yet copyright just seems to keep getting in the way of his creativity. Sheeran has admitted that piracy made him successful. […]
Mike Masnick

Peabody Energy in merger talks with Australian coal rival

3 years 1 month ago
St. Louis-based Peabody Energy Corp., the nation's largest coal producer, is in discussions with an Australian rival about a possible "combination transaction," the foreign company confirmed Wednesday. Coronado Global Resources Inc., which operates in the U.S. and Australia, issued a statement confirming that it is "in confidential discussions with Peabody regarding a potential combination transaction." Coronado added, "However, as no transaction has been agreed and the discussions are ongoing,…
Diana Barr

Republicans need to look in a mirror more often

3 years 1 month ago
Jon Chait attended this year's National Conservatism Conference in Miami and reports that the American right has gone gaga over Hungary's Viktor Orbán and his brand of semi-fascism: Almost every speaker repeated a version of the following: The “woke” revolution has captured the commanding heights of American education, culture, and even large businesses, from which ...continue reading "Republicans need to look in a mirror more often"
Kevin Drum

Dual-Brand Hotel PIPs Create Design, Financial Opportunities

3 years 1 month ago
From Gensler:  Throughout the pandemic, we have seen more and more property improvement plans, and for good reason: Renovating and refreshing brands with existing assets can sometimes be more palatable for developers and investors than ground-up hotel construction in an unsteady and uncertain market. Over the past few years, hotel developers have shown particular interest […]
Shruthi Beedu

How to Recruit and Retain New Hires During the Great Resignation

3 years 1 month ago
From FacilitiesNet:  Thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic and the “Great Resignation” that has followed, there has been a mass exodus of workers across all industries. To put it in perspective, in September 2021, the same month federal unemployment insurance benefits ended, 4.4 million U.S. workers quit their jobs. One month later, another 4.2 million employees […]
Shruthi Beedu

Yapi Mediterranean Subs and Sandwiches Is Moving to the Central West End

3 years 1 month ago
For the past six years, Lisa and Armin Grozdanic have been spreading sandwich joy to south St. Louis with their restaurant Yapi Mediterranean Subs and Sandwiches, first at a storefront in Southampton, which they eventually relocated to St. Louis Hills. Now, the husband and wife team is yet again preparing to move Yapi to an entirely different part of town. In an interview with the Riverfront Times, Lisa Grozdanic confirms that she and her husband closed their St. Louis Hills location on September 17 in preparation for Yapi's new chapter — a storefront on the eastern edge of the Central West End on Vandeventer Avenue, diagonal from City Foundry.
Cheryl Baehr

French Parliament Wants To Make People Pay A License Fee To Use Public Domain Works

3 years 1 month ago
The public domain is the natural state of creative material. It’s where creations end up once copyright’s monopoly has expired. Crucially, it is the quid pro quo for that monopoly. The deal is that the creator of a work is granted a government-enforced intellectual monopoly for a limited period, after which the work enters the public domain for anyone […]
Mike Masnick