Recovered from the Wayback Machine. A couple of days ago, the Southeast Missourian did a fluff piece on how important Ameren is to the Lesterville school system: Earlene Fox, superintendent of the Lesterville School District, said many entities are trying to decide how much to fine Ameren, turning the issue into a political hot button. Meanwhile […]
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Switzer
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Sunday, I discovered that the Switzer Building was being destroyed starting on the 14th; the first wrecking ball would fall at 10pm. This was my last chance to take pictures of the building I’ve come to be fond of. As I was taking pictures, others would show up from time […]
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Mississippi Runneth
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. The Missouri river flooding is enough to raise the Mississippi, though not to the same levels. The water along the St. Louis waterfront rose to the level of the road, but luckily no further. Enough, though, to drown the area where I normally park, as these two pre-flood and flood […]
St. Louis Post-Dispatch brought in its “All of you are embarrassing Missouri” spanking paddle, and it would seem all parties are going to behave. Nixon’s office did issue a comment–it only received the investigative report on April 20th from the Highway Patrol. Now the Attorney General’s office can proceed with facts in hand. The Southeast Missourian is about […]
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Reason at Taum Sauk
It would seem that after the jumping up and down last week, our state officials are working together to come up with a proposal to put before Ameren in regards to the Taum Sauk dam failure. Jay Nixon, the Attorney General, sent a letter to Ameren with a list of items his department stated Ameren would have […]