With little discussion and just a short period after receiving a list of staff recommendations, the Missouri Housing Development Commission on Friday approved 24 low-income housing projects financed by roughly $380 million in state and federal tax credits.
As expected, experienced developers who also make large political donations to statewide officers who serve on the commission received a significant share of the awards. Four of the five top donors submitted projects, and three – JES Holdings,…
SSM Health Saint Louis University Hospital nurses voted Friday to authorize its nurses bargaining team to call another strike due to ongoing issues, including outsourcing of nurse jobs, the National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United (NNOC/NNU) said in a statement.
The Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) has been dismissed from a lawsuit in which the heirs of a St. Louis-area man allege that he died of lung cancer caused by exposure to asbestos-containing products tied to several corporations.
Mercy's Jiajing Chen was tasked with developing a predictive model that could be used to determine when cancer patients receiving chemotherapy could be at risk of hospital admission from side effects of the treatment. It’s a project that ultimately turned personal for Chen, who in 2022 was diagnosed with lymphoma and died in January 2023 at age 42.
Chicken N Pickle, a pickleball-focused dining and entertainment complex, is serving up a new location in St. Charles, set to open Tuesday at 1500 S. Main St.
Spencer Fane acquired a 135-year-old law firm in Utah, adding 49 attorneys and its first locations in Utah. Chairman Pat Whalen says his firm isn't dipping its toe in the market: "We're making an immense commitment."
Stifel Nicolaus will move the 40 or so employees in its Kansas City office near 48th and Main streets to a building on the Country Club Plaza, where it will occupy about 12,500 square feet starting Dec. 18.
In December 2017, following years of complaints about high costs and political influence in Missouri’s low-income housing tax credit program, then-Gov. Eric Greitens engineered a vote that shut it down.
It took Greitens’ resignation due to an unrelated scandal and nearly three years for the state tax credit program to be restarted. It now has a litany of new guardrails — including a project scoring system and set-asides for veterans, the chronic homeless and workforce housing — that…
A judge has dismissed a lawsuit that claimed the city of St. Louis’ refusal to pay refunds of the earnings tax to non-city residents who worked remotely outside the city limits violated the U.S. Constitution.
How many times did I show up at the “center” where Mom lived? Well, let’s just say that I did not keep count, but it was not often (I hated to write that). By the time I came to my senses, it was too late.
An O'Fallon, Missouri, executive writes that her firm manufactures products that help NASA’s Space Launch System. She says Congress must back the program, which boosts the economy of Missouri and other states.
The board of the Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District on Wednesday said it's tapping its director of operations to serve as its next executive director.
The new entity, which has already secured a first round of funding, will provide the parent company with alternative capital that expands its capacity at attractive terms.
A state-court judge on Tuesday appointed a receiver for the Ely Walker Lofts in downtown St. Louis, stripping control of the property and its condo board from the owners of development firm Lux Living.
The St. Louis Cardinals on Wednesday named Yadier Molina special assistant to the president of baseball operations. The team did not specify what duties the new role would include, but an MLB insider recently shared the news that the new role would not be a full-time position.
In a social media post, Enrique Rojas of ESPN and Spanish language website GrandesEnLosDeportes.com said the legendary Cardinals catcher will not take a full-time role with the team in the coming season due to "family matters."…
An investigation into alleged misconduct by Missouri House Speaker Dean Plocher remains ongoing, as a panel of state lawmakers emerged from a nearly three hour behind-closed-doors hearing on Wednesday and gave no indication of when the inquiry will conclude.
The investigation of Plocher could stretch into the next legislative session, which begins on Jan. 3.
“Due process takes time,” said state Rep. Robert Sauls, an Independence Democrat and vice chair of the House Ethics Committee, later…
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