Missouri lawmakers return next week to Jefferson City for their annual session with a new fight brewing between House and Senate Republicans that may have hastened a change in duties for long-time House GOP political strategist Jonathan Ratliff.
Ratliff, who leveraged his success building a legislative supermajority into a political consulting firm with a variety of clients, will be replaced as executive director of the House Republican Campaign Committee. Ratliff will be retained as a “senior…
The Missouri Department of Economic Development touted that its support helped bring nine companies to the state. See which four are expanding in the St. Louis area.
Hospital Sisters Health System (HSHS), a nonprofit health system which operates several facilities in Metro East, has named a new chief financial officer.
At public universities across the state, staff and faculty unions have faced a contentious year of negotiations and, in some cases, strikes.
Pay has been a major issue on several campuses and the unions are now looking to Springfield for potential reforms to the state’s higher education funding.
At Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, negotiations are ongoing between campus leadership and the union that represents clerical workers.
Amy Bodenstab, who works as an office manager in…
Most housing economists agree the conditions for housing will improve, even if only slightly, in 2024, but one report predicts that prices will fall significantly in the St. Louis area.
It took years — and a lot of money — for the University of Kansas to defend its basketball program and coaches against allegations of benefitting from improper benefits to recruits.
A Republican state senator has filed legislation to renew last spring’s failed effort to regulate intoxicating hemp products in Missouri, such as Delta-8 drinks and edibles.
Delta-8 THC products can be sold in stores in Missouri because the intoxicating ingredient, THC, is derived from hemp, not marijuana which is a controlled substance. And hemp is federally legal.
There’s no state or federal law saying teenagers or children can’t buy them or stores can’t sell them to minors — though…
The leader of Niche Food Group also hinted that he could be looking for as many as three additional locations of the food concept that previously operated in downtown St. Louis.
A north St. Louis property targeted for conversion to a workforce development hub will require round-the-clock security during construction and potentially longer, according to city documents.
A crumbling downtown parking garage owned by a city board and partially leased by one of St. Louis’ largest companies could receive nearly $2 million in structural repairs.
A $38 million loan on a Brentwood property has entered a process meant to deal with troubled debt, but the site's owner said he expects a reversal after an anchor tenant chose to take more space.
The opening of CityPark was one of the most significant business events of 2023. Here's a look at the building from the unique perspective of photographer Dilip Vishwanat.
A bill to allow home-educated students to participate in Missouri public school activities is back for the upcoming legislative session — and has been coupled with provisions rolling back state oversight of homeschooling families.
Sen. Ben Brown, a Washington Republican, pre-filed a 52-page bill that largely resembles the version he sponsored that cleared the Senate last session.
While it initially was only two pages and focused on giving homeschool kids the opportunity to play sports and join…
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