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Missouri regulators can now subpoena records from marijuana facilities

1 year 8 months ago
If state regulators decide they need to investigate a licensed marijuana facility, they typically ask for certain records. But an easy place for businesses to “hide” records is with their security companies or other contractors, said Amy Moore, director of the state’s cannabis regulation under the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services. Those “third-party entities” are not companies the state directly regulates. “You can imagine the security companies would have a lot of…
Rebecca Rivas

Kids make up half of Missourians who lost Medicaid in 1st month of reviews

1 year 8 months ago
More than 32,000 Missourians – half of them children – lost Medicaid coverage in June during Missouri’s first round of eligibility checks after the COVID public health emergency. According to a Department of Social Services announcement Thursday, out of the roughly 116,000 Medicaid recipients who had their eligibility checked in June, around 43% retained coverage, 28% lost coverage and 29% have their determinations pending. June was the first month of eligibility reviews as the state works…
Clara Bates

U.S. Senate OKs Hawley proposal to expand coverage for atomic bomb-related illness to St. Louis

1 year 8 months ago
The U.S. Senate voted narrowly Thursday in favor of expanding a program that compensates Americans who become ill because of exposure to radiation from the country’s development and testing of nuclear weapons to cover Missourians. The proposal, offered by Sen. Josh Hawley, was attached as an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act, which authorizes funding levels and sets policy for the Department of Defense. The bill itself still faces a Senate vote and agreement by the U.S. House…
Allison Kite

Table of Experts: Building education

1 year 8 months ago
ROBERT BOBROFF, market president and CEO, St. Louis Business Journal: How important is building education facilities for the growth of the St. Louis region? KEVIN MEYER, managing director, FGM Architects: Schools are an investment for everyone of all ages – students as well as residents with and without school-age children. Education has changed tremendously in the last 50 years. We’ve moved from desks in straight rows facing the teacher to a highly interactive environment with flexible and…

Technology credited with reducing crime along Chicago expressways coming to Metro East

1 year 8 months ago
Technology that police say has helped reduce crime along Chicago area expressways is coming to the Metro East. Illinois State Police began installing license plate reader cameras on Chicago area expressways following the enactment of the Tamara Clayton Expressway Camera Act on January 1, 2020. Clayton was on her way to work in February 2019 when she was shot and killed while driving on Interstate 57 near Cicero Avenue in Chicago. Between 2021 and 2022, shootings dropped by 47% and homicides dropped…
Christine Byers