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Sales around Busch Stadium fall with Cardinals' woes | Arch City Report Podcast

4 days 5 hours ago
This week's Arch City Report Podcast examines downtown St. Louis sales amid the Cardinals' woes, as the 2025 season begins, plus a big win for Boeing and the region. The stories discussed this week are: Fighter jet victory expected to extend Boeing's St. Louis future by decades; 'generational impact': A huge contract assuages uncertainty around Boeing's immediate future in St. Louis, but many believe it creates a long runway of work for the aircraft manufacturing giant in the region. Downtown…

A St. Louis Catholic elementary school to close after 65 years

4 days 7 hours ago
A south St. Louis County Catholic elementary school said it will have to close its doors after 65 years due to declining enrollment. The Most Rev. Mitchell Rozanski, the St. Louis archbishop, said that there are only 70 students who have enrolled at St. Simon the Apostle School for the 2025-26 school year, including one grade level with only three students enrolled and another grade level in which only a single student is enrolled. “This ongoing trend means that continuing to provide quality…
Thomas Planchet

Mark Vittert's Reflections: A hard lesson on the court

4 days 10 hours ago
There are millions, tens of millions, of folks getting older but feeling younger than our forefathers as a result of good medicine, exercises, etc. And here comes pickleball to fill the gap between walking (always good) and more strenuous sports activities.
Mark Vittert

Missouri House approves bill to regulate kratom products

5 days ago
The Missouri House on Wednesday advanced a bill that would enact new regulations on kratom products, which the National Institute on Drug Abuse defines as “an herbal substance that can produce opioid- and stimulant-like effects.” Kratom products are currently legal both federally and in Missouri, and the legislation that received initial approval Wednesday would put an age restriction on who can buy the products at 21, along with limitations on ingredients. The bill needs a final vote in the…
Rebecca Rivas

Missouri ‘born alive’ bill creating legal action for medication abortions heads to Senate

5 days ago
Doctors and other health professionals could be held criminally liable if they don’t offer life-saving care to a baby born during an attempted abortion under legislation that cleared the Missouri House Thursday.  “This bill gives the infant a fighting chance,” Republican state Rep. Brian Seitz of Branson, who co-sponsored the legislation, said Thursday morning. He accused any lawmakers planning to vote against the measure of supporting infanticide, which is already illegal. Republicans…
Anna Spoerre

Announcing the 2025 HR Awards winners

5 days 4 hours ago
The St. Louis Business Journal has selected 10 honorees as part of the 2025 HR Awards program, now in its seventh year. The program honors individuals for the important work they do in human resources.
Veneta Rizvic

Missouri bill to overturn voter-approved paid sick leave clears Senate committee

5 days 15 hours ago
A Republican-led push to overturn the paid sick leave law adopted by Missouri voters last year was debated and approved Wednesday by a state Senate committee. The bill, sponsored by Republican state Rep. Sherri Gallick of Belton, was passed by the House earlier this month and would gut Proposition A, a voter-approved law requiring most employers starting May 1 to provide paid sick time off for hundreds of thousands of qualifying workers. Gallick called the law, which also increased the state’s…
Clara Bates