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Cost of Coldwater Creek radioactive waste cleanup tops $400M, federal agency finds

1 year 4 months ago
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…
Allison Kite

Senior living development: 3 strategies to navigate today’s market

1 year 4 months ago
Senior living developers and operators are faced with many challenges in development today, often navigating the obstacles of dynamic demand and economic fluctuations. However, it’s possible for your business to thrive by implementing proven strategies alongside a senior living design-build partner like ARCO Construction Company and avoid these traps. Discover how industry leaders optimize operations, manage risks, control costs and accelerate schedules using three strategies, and how you can…
ARCO Construction Company

Missouri regulators aware of ads seeking to sell microbusiness cannabis licenses

1 year 4 months ago
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…
Rebecca Rivas

Missouri counties want to freeze seniors’ property assessments, but aren’t sure they can

1 year 4 months ago
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…
Meg Cunningham

UAW ‘changes the rules’ as strike drags on, tells members to prepare for walkouts at any time

1 year 4 months ago
Four weeks into the United Auto Workers strike against the Detroit Three automakers, union President Shawn Fain announced in a livestream that the union would no longer wait until Fridays to expand its strike to new plants. “We’re entering a new phase of this fight, and it demands a new approach,” Fain said Friday. While Fain did not call for additional strikes against General Motors, Ford or Stellantis during the livestream, he said the UAW was prepared to call more local unions to walk…
Kyle Davidson

Drebes: Rex Sinquefield’s team has a new strategy

1 year 4 months ago
Rex Sinquefield, a retired businessman has been a philanthropic force in St. Louis, and a political force in Jefferson City. His approach to influencing public policy has evolved. After years of eye-popping political contributions and pitched battles that made him a polarizing figure, he's embraced more subtlety recently.
Dave Drebes

Grain Belt Express transmission line wins final approval in Missouri

1 year 4 months ago
State regulators gave final approval Thursday to the owners of the Grain Belt Express transmission line to drop off thousands of megawatts of clean power in Missouri. The decision by the Missouri Public Service Commission was the final regulatory approval Chicago-based Invenergy needed to begin the first phase of the line, to be built in Kansas and Missouri. For years, Invenergy has been working through regulatory approvals and acquiring land easements to build the 800-mile high-voltage transmission…
Allison Kite