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Last chance to nominate someone for the 2024 HR Awards

1 year 5 months ago
There is one week left to submit your nomination for the St. Louis Business Journal's 2024 HR Awards program. These awards recognize the important work individuals, companies and organizations do in the field of human resources to make area firms successful. Submit your nomination here. The deadline to nominate someone for this program is Monday, Feb. 5. All HR Awards honorees — companies and people — must be based in the St. Louis area, which includes the city of St. Louis and St. Louis, St.…
Veneta Rizvic

Bar:PM building owner received city letter warning of fines, condemnation due to damage caused by an SLMPD officer crash

1 year 5 months ago
The city of St. Louis may condemn a building, weeks after a police car crashed into it. Bar:PM located at 7109 S. Broadway is still boarded up from the damage but remains open for customers. On Dec. 18, 2023, Police said the officer driving was heading too close to a parked car and was distracted by the police radio. He tried to correct himself but lost control of the vehicle. Now the city is giving the owner of the building where the bar is located until Feb. 19 to fix the damage to the bar. The…
Annie Krall

Grow your portfolio with Missouri-based McKinney Group Wealth Management

1 year 5 months ago
Walter L. McKinney Jr. picked cotton during the summers from ages 5 to 13, served 20 years in the Marines Corps reaching the rank of master sergeant, and today is the owner and founder of McKinney Group Wealth Management in Bridgeton, Missouri, with assets approaching $30 million and more than 220 clients. Walter L. McKinney Jr., 65, combined the value of hard work he learned at a young age and the Marine Corps values of integrity, discipline and service to create the mission of the firm. In 2010,…
McKinney Group Wealth Management

Missouri Senate GOP warfare escalates with suggestion of expelling Freedom Caucus leader

1 year 5 months ago
The factional fights making the Missouri Senate a public spectacle are bad enough that Senate Majority Leader Cindy O’Laughlin told reporters Thursday that she’d vote to expel the leader of the Freedom Caucus from the chamber. Speaking to the assembled editors and publishers from the Missouri Press Association during their annual visit to the Capitol, O’Laughlin noted that expelling a senator takes 23 votes of the 34-member chamber. “Two years ago, I said with 23 votes, you can throw somebody…
Rudi Keller

One of nation’s only aluminum smelters set to close in Missouri Bootheel

1 year 5 months ago
One of the nation’s last primary aluminum smelters, which employs more than 400 workers in the Missouri Bootheel, will reportedly close its doors. The Magnitude 7 Metals plant, in the southeast Missouri town of Marston, announced Wednesday it would curtail operations, according to Industrious Labs, an industry analysis group. In a press release, Industrious Labs said the plant represents about one-fifth of the nation’s aluminum production. Sen. Jason Bean, a Republican from Holcomb who represents…
Allison Kite