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Illinois Rep. Larry Walsh Jr., D-Elwood — the chair of the House Public Utilities Committee and sponsor of the vetoed bill — said he would propose broader policy in the spring legislative session.

This would have given Ameren, the electric utility that serves much of downstate Illinois, authority to build new transmission lines without going through a competitive bidding process under federal regulations for any projects approved by the Midcontinent Independent System Operator.

The bill that Page signed on Tuesday, which the St. Louis County Council passed without opposition, would place a prevailing wage enforcement coordinator into county statute.

Applications are open for the pilot program, in which the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers will train a small group of St. Louis residents to install solar panels. Other applicants will get general job skills training.

For more than a month, an 8-foot inflatable rat has stood outside the St. Louis-Kansas City Carpenters Regional Council on Hampton Avenue. Members of the…