The factional fights making the Missouri Senate a public spectacle are bad enough that Senate Majority Leader Cindy O’Laughlin told reporters Thursday that she’d vote to expel the leader of the Freedom Caucus from the chamber.
Speaking to the assembled editors and publishers from the Missouri Press Association during their annual visit to the Capitol, O’Laughlin noted that expelling a senator takes 23 votes of the 34-member chamber.
“Two years ago, I said with 23 votes, you can throw somebody…
One of the nation’s last primary aluminum smelters, which employs more than 400 workers in the Missouri Bootheel, will reportedly close its doors.
The Magnitude 7 Metals plant, in the southeast Missouri town of Marston, announced Wednesday it would curtail operations, according to Industrious Labs, an industry analysis group. In a press release, Industrious Labs said the plant represents about one-fifth of the nation’s aluminum production.
Sen. Jason Bean, a Republican from Holcomb who represents…
Collaboration between key groups led to an improvement in downtown St. Louis safety, the city's tourism chief said Wednesday, while calling for permanent infrastructure changes in the neighborhood.
After years of court losses and legislative stalemates, Republicans and anti-abortion advocates in Missouri are once again trying to block Planned Parenthood from receiving money through Medicaid.
A Senate committee debated legislation Wednesday that would change Missouri law to make Planned Parenthood ineligible to receive reimbursements from MO HealthNet, the state’s Medicaid program.
Though the organization says it hasn’t received any state funds for nearly two years, as legal fights over…
A developer who plans $200 million in developments in Downtown West is looking to make progress toward one of his projects: a six-story apartment complex.
Opening a restaurant downtown is a good business move, according to Mike Johnson and Dave Molina, whose new restaurant is slated to open Feb. 2. Here's what they expect in sales.
Webster University has named an interim CFO to step in for its retired financial chief, while two other top executives are leaving the troubled educational institution.
The NorthSide Regeneration hospital, called Homer G. Phillips Memorial Hospital and on the site of the former Pruitt-Igoe housing project, opened Jan. 16, one of its executives said.
Clayton-based US Capital Development grew its CRE transaction volume from $62.5 million in 2022 to $204 million in 2023, a 227% increase. Other top CRE firms declined 11% on average in the same time.
Our image is of an old decaying industrial city and if we want that to change we need to reinvest instead of running away from these problems, writes Richard Ontiveros.
Lauren Anthony grew up in the Metro East cooking with her family and, as a teenager, got her first job at fast-casual chain Lion’s Choice. Now she's executive chef of Commonwealth, located in St. Louis’ Angad Arts Hotel.
Ray Hartmann writes that schoolchildren in St. Louis who happen to be poor, Black and disabled have been awarded a dubious new distinction: They are among the most generous in the nation in reducing risks and providing support for developers.
Spending from large federal grants and a shrinking but substantial state surplus will propel Missouri to record spending in the coming year if lawmakers adopt the $52.7 billion budget proposal from Gov. Mike Parson.
Unlike last year’s budget proposal, which included nearly $900 million from general revenue to improve Interstate 70, Parson has no large proposals for using the surplus that was nearly $6.4 billion at the end of December.
Instead, increases in ongoing spending, including raises for…
The FAA halted Boeing's plans to expand production of its 737 Max jets as the agency continues to investigate a Max 9 that lost a door-plug panel midflight earlier this month.
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