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Why Ford Motor Can’t Find Mechanics

4 months 3 weeks ago

From Wall Street Journal Editorial Board: From Corporate CEOs are keeping their heads down these days, lest they get chopped off by the Trump Administration. So last week’s remarks by Ford Motor CEO Jim Farley deserve credit for candor, as well as for the public service of telling politicians a hard truth about the American labor force. […]

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Tom Finan

St. Louis Unions Tackle ‘Shocking’ Rates of Suicide for Workers

4 months 3 weeks ago

From STL Today: Among the 16 building trades in the St. Louis area, a network is forming to focus on the mental health of workers. The increasingly critical effort aims to draw out a group with a reputation for being tough as nails — and tight-lipped about personal problems. The motivation to join forces can […]

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Tom Finan

DOJ Memo Says It Won’t Prosecute US Troops No Matter How Illegal Trump’s Boat Strike Program Is

4 months 3 weeks ago
Not content to simply deport as many South American migrants from this country as possible, the Trump administration leaned into its lies about the latent threat to national security the mere existence of foreign people poses to national security. This administration pretends everything is a “war,” even as it actively avoids seeking congressional approval to […]
Tim Cushing

Prayer Vigil Scheduled for Felicia Rexford's Unsolved Murder Anniversary

4 months 3 weeks ago
ALTON — November 30, 2025, will mark 30 years since Felicia Rexford was fatally stabbed in the parking lot of the Target store in Alton. Rexford was shopping at the Alton Target on November 30, 1995, when she was attacked. Police believe the stabbing was the result of a robbery gone wrong. Her purse was found nearby with a broken strap, and the suspect is believed to have fled behind the building into a wooded area. Rexford reportedly told a bystander that the assailant was a gray-haired

Daily Deal: The Complete MATLAB Programming Master Class

4 months 3 weeks ago
MATLAB allows matrix manipulations, plotting of functions and data, implementation of algorithms, creating of user interfaces, and interfacing with programs written in other languages. That’s all well and good, but it means nothing if you don’t have a firm grasp of the data types used within MATLAB. In the Complete MATLAB Programming Master Class, you’ll […]
Daily Deal

Construction Forum to Relocate Offices to Gateway South Development Downtown

4 months 3 weeks ago

From St. Louis Business Journal: Construction Forum is planning to move its offices to a large planned development downtown. The St. Louis-based nonprofit plans to move to Gateway South. The organization’s offices are currently at 3245 Hampton Ave. in Lindenwood Park. Tom Finan, executive director and co-founder of Construction Forum, said the development will create […]

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Tom Finan

Members of Democratic caucus press ICE for answers on detainment of pregnant women

4 months 3 weeks ago
WASHINGTON — More than 60 members of the congressional Democratic Women’s Caucus Tuesday sent a letter to the head of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raising “extreme concerns” about the treatment of pregnant immigrants in detention.  “The health and safety of pregnant women should not be threatened as a result of the administration choosing not […]
Ariana Figueroa

T.J. Wies Prefab Panels Power Fast-Track Conversion at Edwardsville’s Lincoln Middle School

4 months 3 weeks ago

When Lincoln Middle School in Edwardsville prepared for a large-scale renovation, T.J. Wies Company stepped in with a prefab approach that allowed 12 temporary classrooms to be created in the gymnasium in just five days. The panels were built off-site—framing, drywall, taping, painting, and pre-wired in a controlled shop—and delivered ready for installation by a […]

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Tom Finan

OSF St. Anthony's Imaging Services Offers Cutting-Edge Tech and Rewarding Careers

4 months 3 weeks ago
ALTON - OSF St. Anthony’s Health Center's Imaging Services Department wants you to know they do a lot more than x-rays. Director of Imaging Services Fred SanSoucie, RT(R)(CT)(ARRT), and Manager of Imaging and Diagnostic Cardiology Services Jeff Worman, BS, CNMT, explained that imaging encompasses x-rays, MRIs, CT scans, mammography, ultrasounds, nuclear medicine, stress tests, and much more. They noted that St. Anthony’s has cutting-edge technology, and they’re always