A plan to build a silica mine in southeast Missouri suffered yet another setback on Tuesday when an appeals court ruled state regulators were within their authority to deny the project a permit.
The Missouri Court of Appeals for the Eastern District sided with the Missouri Mining Commission, which denied NexGen Silica a permit in January because it submitted an incomplete application.
“NexGen’s permit application did not identify all parties with any interest in the land and did not contain…
Missouri House Speaker Dean Plocher fired his chief of staff on Tuesday — just weeks after the Republican lawmaker was accused by nonpartisan legislative employees of unlawful conduct.
In a letter to legislators, Plocher announced that the chief of staff position in his office is vacant effective immediately. Up until Tuesday, that job had been held by Kenny Ross, who has served as chief of staff to the last three Republican speakers — Todd Richardson, Elijah Haahr and Rob Vescovo.
There…
A sunglasses startup launched by a prominent St. Louis inventor that has laid dormant for several years is now seeing new light. Popticals, which sells collapsible sunglasses, has returned to operations under new ownership.
Marijuana prices rose in many parts of Missouri on Oct. 1 as new local taxes took effect. Lawsuits filed in Buchanan and St. Louis counties argue that some of those taxes are illegal.
The constitutional amendment that legalized recreational cannabis sales included a 6% statewide excise tax and authorized local governments to charge a sales tax of up to 3%. The question now before the courts is whether the local taxes can be “stacked,” meaning a dispensary within the boundaries of an incorporated…
Missouri Commissioner of Education Margie Vandeven announced on Tuesday that she plans to resign at the end of June.
After making her announcement during the State Board of Education meeting, Vandeven told reporters it was “the right time to move on personally and professionally to a new opportunity [she] hasn’t discovered yet.”
Her resignation caps a tumultuous tenure as the state’s highest ranking education official.
Vandeven became the commissioner in January of 2015, but she was ousted…
Cleaning up Coldwater Creek and other radioactive waste sites in St. Louis County will cost more than twice what federal officials thought six years ago, a new federal report finds.
A report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office released Tuesday finds the government’s financial liability at the sites ballooned from $177 million in 2016 to $406 million last year, primarily because of additional contamination that forced the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to expand the investigation and cleanup…
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Missouri’s Division of Cannabis Regulation said last week that it’s “become aware” that some people who recently received small-scale cannabis business licenses — which are meant to boost opportunities for businesses in disadvantaged communities — are now trying to sell them.
On Oct. 2, the state issued 48 licenses to the winners of a lottery that determined who gets to participate in Missouri’s microbusiness program.
The division warned in a guidance issued on Oct. 10 that if winners…
The freezing of property tax assessments for Missourians 62 and older looks, at best, fuzzy.
The state adopted a law this year that lets counties give that property tax assessment freeze when homeowners become eligible for Social Security. And it allowed counties to throw in a yearly tax credit to give older residents even more tax relief.
But counties don’t yet fully understand the new rules. Local leaders have called the language “poorly designed” and “very ill-written.”
So far, five…
The site once housed manufacturing facilities for the St. Louis Ordnance Plant and the St. Louis Army Ammunition Plant, which produced ammunition during World War II and the Korea and Vietnam wars.
The St. Louis region's largest private company, which also is one of its biggest employers, booked a record $35 billion in revenue in its fiscal year just ended.
Workers at a major employer on Laclede's Landing have pleaded for help with "chaos" stemming from nearby encampments of homeless people. They and others say City Hall has turned a deaf ear.
Several local organizations have created an initiative aimed at strengthening agriculture technology ties between the St. Louis region and Latin America.
An index of St. Louis-area publicly-traded stocks continued to lag significantly behind national indices this year, according to an analysis by Clayton-based Argent Capital Management.
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