Lacretia Wimbley

1 week ago | missouribusinessalert.com | Lacretia Wimbley

The number of vacant buildings in the city of St. Louis is dwindling, based on an early look at a new report from the St. Louis Vacancy Initiative. The final report will be released this summer. But for now, officials on Wednesday invited the public to take a first look at the upcoming Vacancy Strategy Initiative Report, for which over a dozen city departments and hundreds of community members created a data-driven plan to help reduce vacant properties.

3 weeks ago | ourcommunitynow.com | Lacretia Wimbley

Senate Bill 378 earlier this month and currently awaits a vote before the full Senate. If enacted, it would require that all state prisons be inspected at least once a year, with maximum-security facilities undergoing biannual reviews. Its primary sponsor is Sen. Angela Mosley, D-Florissant. The law would be named after Larry Miller, who died in custody at the Crossroads Correctional Center in Cameron on June 9, 2014.

2 months ago | stlpr.org | Lacretia Wimbley

More people are moving to the St. Louis metropolitan area, but experts warn that declining births will eventually impact the region's economy. On Thursday, the U.S. Census Bureau published its population estimates for 2024, showing that the 15 counties across the St. Louis Metropolitan Statistical Area gained 6,420 new people last year, which is the region's largest increase since 2010.

2 months ago | stlpr.org | Lacretia Wimbley

As interim commissioner of corrections, Doug Burris has been at the helm of the St. Louis City Justice Center, where 18 detainees have died since 2020, since late January,Burris is a nationally recognized expert in corrections and is credited with turning things around at the St. Louis County jail, where at the height of that facility's troubles, five people died in custody in 2019.

2 months ago | stlpr.org | Lacretia Wimbley

Most of the U.S. lost an hour of sleep this weekend after moving clocks forward for daylight saving time, but a bill making its way through the Illinois legislature proposes to make that the last time Illinoisans lose sleep for the tradition. would amend the Standard Time Act, so daylight saving time would be the year-round standard time of the entire state, according to the bill's primary sponsor, Rep. Bob Morgan, D-Deerfield.