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ST. LOUIS — Sam Fox, who rose from humble beginnings in rural Missouri to found a billion-dollar investment firm, bankroll Republican political campaigns and serve as U.S. ambassador to Belgium, died Monday. He was 95. He was born in 1929 in Desloge, about an hour south of St. Louis, as the youngest of five children of immigrants from Belgium and Ukraine. The house had no indoor bathrooms until he was 8. But he would later look back fondly on his Lead Belt hometown as idyllic, close-knit and tolerant. He spent his high school summers in Illinois in pea- and corn-canning factories, earning money he would later use to make his way to St. Louis and Washington University, a place he said opened his eyes to the world “as if someone had pulled back a curtain.” He graduated with a business degree in 1951 and got a job with a chemical company shortly after. In 1953, he married Marilyn Widman, a fellow Washington U. student and his wife for the next 70 years. In the 1970s, he went into business for himself, founding Harbour Group, which grew into a holding company of diverse manufacturing businesses, with billions of dollars in annual revenue. As his business took off, Fox took an active role in numerous civic institutions, such as the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra and the St. Louis Art Museum. He also served as a trustee at his alma mater and joined Civic Progress, the group of local corporate chiefs that once wielded significant political power. Fox was modest about his success, though. “We like to think that we’re smart enough to have made that happen,” Fox told the Post-Dispatch in 2003. “But the fact of the matter is that being in the right place at the right time and being lucky has a heck of a lot to do with it.” He and his wife also gave generously to numerous causes and established a family foundation to help people with the basic needs of food and shelter. Fox credited his parents with teaching him the importance of giving back, recalling the traditional Jewish tzedakah box they had in their home. Whenever Fox got a few nickels and dimes, he dropped them in the box. “We never had much money, but there was always something for people in need,” Fox said. “That’s just the way it was.” In 2005, Washington U. named the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts in his honor. He also chaired the university’s capital fundraising campaign for six years. “Sam was one of WashU’s most loyal alumni,” Chancellor Andrew Martin said in a statement Wednesday. “We benefited greatly from his savvy leadership and decades of transformational support.” Over the years, Fox became a prolific donor to Republicans locally and on the national stage. He gave generously to Missouri Republican figures, from Gov. Mike Parson to former Gov. and Sen. John Ashcroft, as well as President George W. Bush, who made Fox his ambassador to Belgium from 2007-2009. During Bush’s tenure, Fox was known in the White House as “Foxy,” a nickname the president himself would often use. Fox also was an occasional hunting partner of then-Vice President Dick Cheney. In 2006, Fox and his wife hosted First Lady Laura Bush at their Clayton home for a Republican fundraising event. “Sam was a massive and generous figure for every Republican candidate in this state for many decades,” said John Hancock, a former state Republican Party chairman. “He was kind, insightful, highly regarded and respected by all.” He also had some friends on the other side of the aisle, at least locally. Former St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay, who enjoyed Fox’s support in at least one of his City Hall campaigns, called Fox “a phenomenal St. Louisan.” “He’s going to be greatly missed,” Slay said. The Jewish Federation of St. Louis said in a statement that Fox’s dedication to philanthropy and his impact on local organizations “have left an indelible mark on our Jewish community and beyond.” The federation said Fox and his wife, who died last February, were committed to the principle of tikkun olam, or repairing the world. The federation also cited the Fox Family Foundation, which the couple established in 1986. Among Fox’s survivors are three children and 15 grandchildren. Funeral services are scheduled for 1:15 p.m. Sunday at Congregation Temple Israel in Creve Coeur.
President-elect Donald Trump said Tuesday he planned to expedite federal regulatory approvals, including all environmental permits, for any company or individual proposing to invest $1 billion or more in a construction project. “Any person or company investing ONE BILLION DOLLARS, OR MORE, in the United States of America, will receive fully expedited approvals and permits, including, but in no way limited to, all Environmental approvals,” Trump wrote Tuesday afternoon on Truth Social . “GET READY TO ROCK!!!” The announcement on Trump’s own social network comes as lawmakers in Congress are working to pass a bipartisan bill aimed at easing federal permitting requirements, a step widely seen as necessary to hasten building of upgrades in roads, bridges and energy systems as aging infrastructure heaves under pressure from increasingly extreme weather and a growing population. During the first half of his term, President Joe Biden signed into law three landmark bills aimed at modernizing U.S. infrastructure. That includes the hundreds of billions of dollars earmarked in the Inflation Reduction Act for clean energy projects, marking arguably the largest government investment into meeting demand for fossil fuels with lower-carbon alternatives outside of China. But the federal permitting process that developed in the 55 years since the passage of the National Environmental Policy Act slowed the deployment of those dollars as opponents of anything from a solar farm to a lithium mine to a natural gas pipeline seized on the country’s bedroom ecological-protection law to halt or delay projects with lawsuits. Obtaining final environmental permits for a project subject to the NEPA process takes on average 4 1/2 years, according to a 2020 study by the White House Council on Environmental Quality. The average for electrical transmission projects is even higher, with the majority taking 6 1/2 years to get final approvals. Since the cheapest technologies to generate zero-carbon renewable electricity ― such as wind turbines and solar panels ― require vast areas of land often far from the cities where power is used, transmission lines are seen as one of the main bottlenecks to bringing more clean power onto the grid. The bipartisan deal brokered by Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) sought to ease the process. But some environmental groups came out against what they called the “dirty deal” because the legislation benefited fossil fuel companies as well as clean-energy projects. Progressive critics of the permitting overhaul argued instead for increasing staffing and budgets at federal agencies to add more capacity to assess and make judgments on applications. But some of the Democrats’ most prominent self-described climate hawks in Congress backed the bill Manchin negotiated, citing repeated analyses showing that the permitting reform package promised to slash more planet-heating emissions on net by helping clean-energy projects reach the finish line than it contributed by clearing the way for more gas infrastructure. Unless Congress manages to pass the bill in the coming weeks, the GOP majorities set to control both the Senate and the House of Representatives are unlikely to enact the compromise package. It’s unclear, however, what Republicans may propose as an alternative. While some top GOP leaders have vowed to gut the Inflation Reduction Act, others have pleaded with colleagues to preserve much of the clean-energy spending, which has overwhelmingly gone to red and purple states. The changes to energy policy come as the U.S. is experiencing its first major uptick in demand for electricity in three decades thanks to the need for more data centers to power artificial intelligence software, more air conditioners to keep Americans cool amid worsening heat waves, and record purchases of electric vehicles. At the same time, the U.S. power grid is becoming less reliable and more expensive as dependable coal and nuclear plants shut down in favor of gas and renewables that, while cheap individually, have driven up electricity costs in many markets where the two sectors combined make up the majority of power generation. Trump pledged on the campaign trail to slash electricity prices, and drive up U.S. oil and gas production up beyond the record levels set under Biden. Biden Tees Up 2 More Major Nuclear Power Wins For Trump A Democrat Is Running On An Issue That Was Once Controversial Donald Trump Takes A Skeptical View Of Nuclear Energy On Joe Rogan’s PodcastWASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday named Andrew Ferguson as the next chair of the Federal Trade Commission . He will replace Lina Khan, who became a lightning rod for Wall Street and Silicon Valley by blocking billions of dollars' worth of corporate acquisitions and suing Amazon and Meta while alleging anticompetitive behavior . Ferguson is already one of the FTC's five commissioners, which is currently made up of three Democrats and two Republicans. “Andrew has a proven record of standing up to Big Tech censorship, and protecting Freedom of Speech in our Great Country,” Trump wrote on Truth Social, adding, “Andrew will be the most America First, and pro-innovation FTC Chair in our Country’s History.” The replacement of Khan likely means that the FTC will operate with a lighter touch when it comes to antitrust enforcement. The new chair is expected to appoint new directors of the FTC's antitrust and consumer protection divisions. “These changes likely will make the FTC more favorable to business than it has been in recent years, though the extent to which is to be determined,” wrote Anthony DiResta, a consumer protection attorney at Holland & Knight, in a recent analysis . Deals that were blocked by the Biden administration could find new life with Trump in command. For example, the new leadership could be more open to a proposed merger between the country’s two biggest supermarket chains, Kroger and Albertsons, which forged a $24.6 billion deal to combine in 2022. Two judges halted the merger Tuesday night. The FTC had filed a lawsuit in federal court earlier this year to block the merger, claiming the deal would eliminate competition, leading to higher prices and lower wages for workers. The two companies say a merger would help them lower prices and compete against bigger rivals like Walmart. One of the judges said the FTC had shown it was likely to prevail in the administrative hearing. Yet given the widespread public concern over high grocery prices, the Trump administration may not fully abandon the FTC's efforts to block the deal, some experts have said. And the FTC may continue to scrutinize Big Tech firms for any anticompetitive behavior. Many Republican politicians have accused firms such as Meta of censoring conservative views, and some officials in Trump's orbit, most notably Vice President-elect JD Vance, have previously expressed support for Khan's scrutiny of Big Tech firms. In addition to Fergson, Trump also announced Tuesday that he had selected Jacob Helberg as the next undersecretary of state for economic growth, energy and the environment.Pagaya Technologies files to sell 504,440 class A ordinary shares by selling shareholders
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BEREA, Ohio -- A Middleburg Heights girl, 16, was banned from The Polish Village, 365 Berea St., after she smoked a cigarette in the bathroom and fought an unidentified female. It happened at about midnight Dec. 1. The girl, without her parents’ knowledge, went to The Polish Village with a group of friends. After she and one of her friends were caught smoking in the bathroom, bar staff told her was not allowed to smoke in the building. Shortly afterward, the girl and her smoking buddy started fighting each other. They were thrown out of the bar. Bar staff said they never served the girl alcohol. It was presumed that the girl had been drinking before arriving at The Polish Village. However, the girl said she and other underage people had been served alcohol in the bar, although she refused to name anyone. Police told the girl that if she ever returned to The Polish Village, she would be arrested for trespassing. She was also charged with underage alcohol consumption and disorderly conduct. In The Polish Village that same morning was a Brook Park man, 20, who ran into his own trouble shortly afterward at a different bar. A security worker at Front St Social, 107 Front, called police at about 2:30 a.m. He said he asked the man to leave the bar because he had been drinking too much. In response, the man started banging his hands on the front windows. The security worker then physically removed the man from the building. The man later told police that he was hanging out with friends at Front St Social when his ex-girlfriend, an 18-year-old Middleburg Heights resident, arrived. He said she began making false statements to the security worker and others in the bar that he was bothering her, hoping to get him kicked out. The man said another man punched him in the face while he was in the bar. The man’s hands and arms were bruised, his hand was swollen and a small amount of blood was around his mouth. The man claimed the security worker roughed him up and assaulted him unnecessarily. RECOMMENDED • cleveland .com North Royalton woman arrested in connection to shoplifting incident, vehicle crash in Berea & Middleburg Heig Dec. 5, 2024, 3:48 p.m. Man arrested after throwing coffee on worker in Einstein Bros. Bagels in Middleburg Heights Nov. 29, 2024, 8:00 p.m. Police cited the man for underage alcohol consumption and disorderly conduct. They left a voicemail message with his ex-girlfriend. Read more from the News Sun .
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