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Bar owner charged with assault after St. Louis police SUV slams into his business

1 year ago
A St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department SUV crashed into the front door of a south St. Louis bar early Monday morning, and one of the bar's owners is now facing charges after a confrontation with police. The owners of Bar:PM at the intersection of Blow Street and South Broadway were asleep above the bar at about 12:30 a.m. when they heard a crash. When they came downstairs, they said they saw the 2020 Chevrolet Tahoe had crashed into the front door of the bar. "I was actually already in bed…
Sam Clancy and Megan Kernan

Teamsters authorize strike at Anheuser-Busch

1 year ago
A strike is set for 2024 if Anheuser-Busch fails to negotiate a new agreement with their employees, according to the Teamsters National Negotiating Committee. Around 99% of the brewery's unionized workers reportedly voted in favor of the strike. Anheuser-Busch is a unit of Belgium-based Anheuser-Busch InBev (NYSE: BUD), which has its North American headquarters in St. Louis. The members of the union are demanding the following changes: improved wages protection of jobs secure healthcare retirement…
Genell Reynolds, Annie Krall and Hunter Bassler

A quarter of Missouri cannabis microbusiness license winners deemed ineligible

1 year 1 month ago
Missouri cannabis regulators could revoke 11 of the 48 social-equity cannabis licenses issued in October after finding they didn’t meet eligibility requirements. Nine were dispensaries and two were wholesale facilities. Chief Equity Officer Abigail Vivas, who oversees the microbusiness program under the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, said in a report released Friday that the ineligibility issues included “failure to provide documentation that the facility would be operated…
Rebecca Rivas

Illinois regulators once again flex muscle in rejecting utilities’ grid plans, lessening rate hikes

1 year 1 month ago
The Illinois Commerce Commission on Thursday curtailed proposed rate hikes and rejected grid plans from two major electric utilities, mirroring a series of bombshell decisions rendered last month that cut increases for Illinois’ four largest gas utilities. The ICC rejected the pair of plans from Commonwealth Edison and Ameren Illinois that were meant to illustrate how the companies would comply with the state’s landmark climate legislation, the Climate and Equitable Jobs Act. Those plans would…
Andrew Adams

University of Missouri curators keep Mun Choi’s salary increases under the radar

1 year 1 month ago
Three years after taking the dual role of University of Missouri-Columbia chancellor and president of the four-campus University of Missouri System, Mun Choi’s pay package has quietly approached $1 million through decisions made in a series of closed-door curators meetings. An attorney who works with Missouri open meetings law argued decisions on Choi’s salary should be made in public. In 2020, the UM System Board of Curators voted to merge the two roles and extend Choi’s employment contract…
Emmaline Luetkemeyer