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Ballwin insurance agency sold to Indiana company

5 hours 32 minutes ago
Brian Holthouse, a partner with BW Forsyth, connected Benjamin Schoettmer with Heather Wessels and Mike Swatske, the married couple who owned Independent Brokers Agency. The introduction led to talks that resulted in the acquisition.
James Drew

City of St. Louis' plan for the roads: Salt, sun and a prayer

12 hours 40 minutes ago
If it's not a main road in St. Louis, it looks like a scene out of the show "Ice Road Truckers." Hill routes, residential streets and alleys are inch-deep in ice. The city of St. Louis Street Department has a plan for that ice... but whether it will work is questionable. During a Public Infrastructure and Utilities Committee Meeting, the city of St. Louis' director of the Department of Streets, Betherny Williams, announced crews will repeatedly drive over icy streets with heavy trucks hoping to…
Tracy Hinson

Looking back on Tony's restaurant as it closes | Arch City Report Podcast

1 day 4 hours ago
This week's Arch City Report Podcast looks back on Tony's restaurant as it closes, plus examines city earnings tax refunds. Our guest this week is St. Louis Magazine Dining Editor George Mahe, who's written extensively about Tony's, the legendary fine dining establishment, including this conversation with the late Tony's operator Vince Bommarito Sr. Listen to the podcast, which aims to help you quickly understand the biggest stories in St. Louis each week, below. The stories discussed in…

Cannabis trade group pushes back on Missouri rules to combat ‘predatory’ practices

1 day 4 hours ago
Missouri cannabis regulators and the state’s largest marijuana trade group agree that people should be banned from flooding the license lottery with applicants they recruit who are never intended to have any actual control or profits. It’s a practice the Missouri Division of Cannabis Regulation has called predatory, and efforts to root it out of the state’s microbusiness program have resulted in 41 licenses being revoked or facing possible revocation.  “We understand and agree with the…
Rebecca Rivas

Regulator accuses drug middlemen of wild price hikes, possibly steering business to themselves

1 day 4 hours ago
The Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday released an interim report saying that powerful drug middlemen marked up drugs for cancer, AIDS, multiple sclerosis and other serious maladies far over the going rate — as much as a thousand percent over the going rate in 22% of instances. The upcharges provided $7.3 billion in additional revenue between 2017 and 2022 to pharmacies owned by the same companies, the report said. Meanwhile, the middlemen usually paid competitor pharmacies less for dispensing…
Marty Schladen