Twice this summer, Andrew Mullins emailed state marijuana regulators to make sure they knew about a potential problem.
Mullins, the president of the Missouri Cannabis Trade Association, feared that licensed Missouri cannabis companies may be tempted to add illegal marijuana products brought in from other states to their own products in order to keep their production numbers up — a process known as “inversion.”
“We understand that production is still catching up with demand and wholesale…
A St. Louis all-girls charter school has announced its closure shortly before the start of the new school year.
Hawthorn Leadership School for Girls, located in the city's Kingsway West neighborhood, will close at the end of the month due to low enrollment, school leaders announced in a Tuesday letter. The school's foundation owns its property, at 1901 N. Kingshighway Blvd., which was appraised by the city at $1.5 million.
The letter was signed by Board Chair Hal Davies and Head of School Daphne…
Missouri Auditor Scott Fitzpatrick has begun an investigation into the state’s marijuana program, vowing to assess whether regulators are operating “in a manner that is efficient, accountable and transparent.”
The audit is not a routine, scheduled review. It was initiated by Fitzpatrick after he pledged last year during his campaign to look into how Missouri oversees legalized cannabis.
It will cover both the medical and recreational programs, spanning back to when Missouri voters first signed…
The Missouri Supreme Court ruled unanimously Tuesday that St. Louis and Jackson counties should have been allowed to intervene in a lawsuit that struck down local health orders aimed at mitigating the spread of Covid-19.
Both counties will now have the authority to appeal the November 2021 decision, in which Cole County Circuit Court Judge Daniel Green declared local Covid-19 mandates violated the Missouri Constitution.
When Green’s original order was issued, state health officials wanted to…
Thirty-seven St. Louis-area firms are listed on this year's Inc. 5000, a ranking of the nation's fastest-growing private companies released Tuesday, including one that broke into the top five.
The new C-suite appointment marks the latest change for the company, which in May appointed a new chief executive and said it once again plans to offer its shares on the public market.
The city of St. Charles is fully relying on St. Louis for drinking water after it shut down the Elm Point Water Treatment Plant on Sunday.
In a Monday announcement, the city said the level of free ammonia in the raw groundwater, which is vital for disinfecting the water, had suddenly dropped for an unidentified reason. The plant has run for 70 years by using the water's naturally occurring ammonia to react with chlorine, which produces mono-chloramines that act as the water distribution system's…
An animal control or shelter site? A motorsports, go-cart track or other recreational facility? A memorial or museum site? Renewable energy site? Return the land to native tribes?
All are among the potential uses for one of the city’s former jails known as The Workhouse, at 7600 Hall St., that a steering committee says it is willing to continue to explore based on the 790 responses it got to a community survey.
Some of the uses eliminated from consideration include a job and business training…
Steel manufacturer Esmark Inc. said Monday afternoon it had made a cash tender offer for United States Steel Corp. in what could shape up for a battle between Esmark and Cleveland-Cliffs for the century-old Pittsburgh company.
The holds come as Missouri’s recreational cannabis market, which launched in February, has seen higher-than-expected demand and sales in the past six months cause a supply crunch, causing wholesale prices to skyrocket and retailers’ profit margins to shrink.
A municipality in St. Louis County hopes to create more affordable housing through legislation requiring affordable housing units from developers who seek incentives, along with a new tenants' "bill of rights" designed to provide protections for renters.
Locally-based alumni of St. Louis' major sports franchises assume that their ranks will continue to diminish over the years. “I think that’s because of the money. They can go live wherever they want.”
The company — which previously only operated in the automotive business, transporting vehicles for businesses like dealerships, fleet-management companies and car manufactures — stood up a freight division on Aug. 1, after spending a little over a year shoring up its automotive operations, its founder said.
The Urban League will find candidates for jobs, similar to how it worked with SSM to fill jobs as the new Saint Louis University Hospital opened during the most stressful periods of the Covid-19 pandemic, said Michael McMillan, president and CEO of the Urban League.
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