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Mary Ann Pierce (nee Batz) of Bridgeton Missouri, died on September 18, 2025 at the age of 92. Loving wife of Claude E. Pierce, mother of Gary R. Luebke (Jan), Richard L. Luebke and the late Stephen R. Luebke, grandmother…
Members of the medical community have expressed dismay over the president’s comments, saying there’s not enough scientific evidence to support the claim.
Those who don’t know their history are doomed to repeat it, as the old saying goes. And those who choose not to teach that history, to continue this to its logical conclusion, are actively attempting to repeat it. It’s within that logical framework that I have viewed our many posts on Trump Administration 2.0’s attempt […]
ALTON – A resolution to allocate nearly $184,000 to design “streetscape and transportation improvements” on East Broadway is on its way to the Alton City Council. Committee of the Whole members on Monday approved a resolution appropriating $183,914 in Riverfront Tax Increment Financing (TIF) District Funds, or as much is needed to complete the design portion of the project. According to the resolution, the project requires additional funding through the Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT), resulting in a Joint Funding Agreement between the city and IDOT. The full scope of the project consists of “professional design services including civil engineering, land surveying, and landscape architecture for the design of streetscape and transportation improvements,” according to the Joint Funding Agreement. The designed improvements are set to span 0.59 miles of East Broadway from Market Street to Ridge Street. Also passed on Monday was an Engineering